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One school shocks students with disabilities. The FDA is moving to ban the practice.
A version of this report for NPR Morning Edition originally aired on WGBH News in Boston. Luigi Disisto is a 47-year-old autistic man who lives at a… -
Fighting for compensation after a wrongful conviction and 38 years in prison
This story aired on NPR’s Morning Edition on December 19, 2018. It is based on NECIR’s four-part series that originally was broadcast by WGBH News in… -
New data, with gaps, show hundreds of thousands of elder abuse cases
Across the United States, solitude has become a deadly threat for hundreds of thousands of senior citizens living at home. Last year alone, state adult… -
Aging and dying in prison
A Massachusetts state prison is expanding the graveyard where it buries inmates who die in custody, one consequence of the state’s huge increase in aging… -
AG wants investigation of Bristol sheriff
Attorney General Maura Healey is calling for an investigation into the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office, citing concerns about suicides and allegations of… -
Woman Calls Out Boston Biotech Party For Topless Dancers
The tech industry is known for having what some have criticized as a frat house-like atmosphere that can be demeaning to women. The stereotype played itself out in Boston last week. -
The high cost of seriously ill inmates
Raymond Wallace is likely one of the most expensive county jail inmates in Massachusetts ever. The 41-year-old detainee has been awaiting trial and held… -
Radio: Old and dying in Massachusetts prisons, Pt. 2
Part 2 in a series: Dying behind bars is a bleak fate, but a new Massachusetts law gives some very ill and old prisoners a chance at escaping the destiny… -
Radio: Old and dying in Massachusetts prisons, Pt. 1
Part 1 in a series: Long sentences with little or no chance of parole mean prisoners in Massachusetts — locked up for decades — are now getting old and… -
Suicides on the rise at Massachusetts prisons, jails
Fourteen inmates died by suicide in Massachusetts prisons and jails in 2017, the highest such number of deaths since 2014, according to state and county…
