Criminal Justice

In North Carolina, prison inmates process meat for private companies. In Minnesota they make fishing lures. And in Montana they help do the ranching. Convicted criminals in 24 states across the country work for private business from behind bars. So why shouldn’t Massachusetts prisoners do the same? Legislators have been pondering that policy question, and […]

Building contractor Jeff Goodwin is standing in front of the glittering surface of the municipal pool in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. While teen-agers take turns diving into the rumpled iridescent water and younger children wade in the shallow end, Goodwin points out renovations done to the pavilion, a neat little cedar-shingled structure that is maintained by […]