Transformational Prison News Today

Items bought via the Giving Machines are dispensed elsewhere — in the form of diapers handed out to families at Boston-area homeless shelters, or a digital literacy class taught to a local formerly incarcerated person.

In Massachusetts, people convicted of first-degree murder are automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. And in some cases, participants in certain crimes resulting in death may be found guilty of first-degree murder even if they weren’t the killer.

By repairing harm with families and communities, restorative justice has the power to heal and break the cycle of crime.

Why film producer Scott Budnick, the New England Patriots’ Devin McCourty, celebrity barber VicBlends, and others are advocating for formerly incarcerated people.