Advocacy Resources
Reports
The Women and Incarceration Project (WIP) provides expertise to Massachusetts policymakers. An overview of the WIP project is available here. For more information, visit the project’s website at sites.suffolk.edu/wiproject.
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22,000 people from Massachusetts are incarcerated
There are 16 prisons and jails in Massachusetts
96 per 100,000 people in Massachusetts are incarcerated
119 individuals are incarcerated per 100k residents age 18 and older
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr