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When Faith Muello moved across the country from Massachusetts to the valley in 2017, one of her favorite activities was to take her horse, Beamer, for a ride through the desert. That was when she noticed something among the beauty of the landscape that she didn’t like.
The prison’s population has fallen significantly.
Women are far more likely to be the primary caretaker of their children. But resources devoted to that plight are scarce.
Each year, hundreds of prisoners in Massachusetts are released without traditional step-down programs meant to help them succeed.
The complaints come two years after the state passed a law to eliminate solitary confinement, which allows prisoners only a few hours a day out of their cells.