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In the final episode of Violation, we return to thorny dilemmas about the criminal justice system: When someone commits a terrible crime, as Jake did, is there anything they can do to prove they deserve to be free again?

Massachusetts officials released a draft proposal asking developers to produce another 3,600 megawatts of offshore wind power. If approved, it would be the biggest-ever solicitation of wind energy in New England's history. But there's a long road between proposal and delivery.

City Council President Ed Flynn wants Boston to follow in New York City's footsteps and get its own "rat czar" to take on the age-old annoyance — which has ballooned since the start of the pandemic.

Jake didn’t know it when he was first released, but his freedom would only last nine months — and there were people on the outside working to put him back inside.

Jake had many years of practice pretending he wasn’t suffering from mental health struggles in his youth, but now, he had to push those struggles even further out of sight as he faced a series of challenges in prison, each more difficult than the last.

Gov. Healey and the House agree on a few items within their respective tax proposals. However, these current discussions are hardly the end, as the Senate is also working on its own tax reform package. Plus: Somerville appoints a new school superintendent.

Part 3 of Violation examines America’s opaque parole system and how Jacob Wideman prepared to argue for his release.

Was Jake Wideman a “bad seed”? The question emerged not long after Jacob Wideman murdered his summer camp roommate, Eric Kane, in 1986 seemingly with no motive.

Not long after Jacob Wideman murdered his summer camp roommate, Eric Kane, in 1986 — seemingly with no motive — a question emerged in the breathless news coverage of the tragedy: Was Jake a “bad seed”?

This debut episode of Violation, a podcast from WBUR and The Marshall Project, introduces the story of the crime that has bound two families together for decades.