Upcoming Briefings & Events.
The Caucus hosts monthly educational briefings on topics related to mass incarceration. Briefings usually feature panels of individuals with lived experiences, community experts, and legislators.
We also attend many community-led events and encourage advocates to support those movements. We will share information about those events on this webpage as our staff learns about them.
CAUCUS BRIEFING
Tuesday Oct 31st at 12PM
Parole Briefing and Advocacy Day
We will be discussing two legislative solutions to reforming our parole system: S.1544/H.2398, An Act to promote equitable access to parole sponsored by Senator Miranda and Representative Sabadosa and S.1534/H.1540, An Act to reform parole supervision in the interest of justice sponsored by Senator Miranda and Senator Jehlen.
CAUCUS FILM SCREENING
Tuesday June 27th at 11AM
State House Room 428
Finding the Words Screening, The Story of Voices from the Inside
Having premiered in early 2023, Finding the Words is a documentary about the impact writing & community have on incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, as well as women in recovery in Western Massachusetts. Learn more about the women featured in the film: Jacqueline, Sonia, Daisy, Judy, Amie, and Kay Kay. Here is a short trailer for the documentary: https://www.finding-the-words.com/trailer.
CAUCUS BRIEFING
Tuesday May 17th at 4PM
Briefing with Disability Law Center on Bridgewater State Hospital
The Disability Law Center (DLC) issued a report earlier this year that found structural problems and concerning conditions within the hospital buildings. Join this briefing to hear more about the report from DLC representatives, experts and families of those directly impacted.
CAUCUS BRIEFING
Wednesday January 19th at 4PM
Briefing on Free Calls for Incarcerated People
Join this briefing to hear first-hand accounts of the hardship that phone charges impose and the benefits of facilitating family contact. Worth Rises, based on its experience in jurisdictions that have already eliminated charges, will present a fiscal analysis showing how cost-effective this legislation would be.
CAUCUS SYMPOSIUM
Monday November 15 at 4PM
Community Discussion on This Ain’t Normal Documentary
We are hosting this event as the second part in the This Ain't Normal screening series with the intention of facilitating a community conversation around the film.
CAUCUS BRIEFING
Thursday, October 14th at 12PM
Ending Life Without Parole
Parole Supervision Bill Fact Sheet
CAUCUS BRIEFING
Wednesday, September 22nd at 11AM
Reforming Parole and Medical Parole to Enhance Public Safety
Parole Supervision Bill Fact Sheet
SAVE THE DATE: PUBLIC EVENT
March Against New Women’s Prison
September 7 - September 13th
Building Up People Not Prisons is organizing a march from Springfield to Boston to protest the plans to build a new women's prison and to support An Act establishing a jail and prison construction moratorium (S.2030/H.1905).
If you would like to walk with them or see where their route intersects with your district, you can register here.