Decarcerating Women Today: Charting a Path

"CREATING A HUB FOR DECARCERATION ADVOCATES" – Suffolk Journal Article Highlighting December Conference

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Our December 2nd conference: Decarcerating Women Today: Charting a Path was featured in our university’s magazine – The Suffolk Journal. For an overview and quotes from WIP members and participants click the link above.

Decarcerating Women Today: Charting A Path

In December of 2022 the WIP hosted “Decarcerating Women Today: Charting a Path Forward”, a conference in which attorneys, advocates and formerly incarcerated women spoke about the legal pathways such as clemency, parole and medical parole that can be used to release women from prison without any changes to Massachusetts law.

Click here to watch the conference video.

Decarcerating Women from MCI-Framingham: A Realistic Prospect Today (revised Dec. 2022)

The number of women incarcerated in Massachusetts has steadily declined over the past decades. There currently are under 200 women housed at MCI-Framingham. Our research shows that the vast majority of currently incarcerated women could be released right away under existing statutes.

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