"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.

In March 2024, 412 detained immigrants had been in custody for more than a year. By March 2026, the last time ICE provided detention statistics, that number had risen to 2,220 people. Our new collaboration with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...

Lowell PD assaulted a 14 year old trying to speak out against a data center www.lowellsun.com/2026/06/30/l...

There is no justification for this reaction to a teenager politely asking a question. Especially given some of the shit I've seen adults pull at community meetings.

"The hardest part about being in prison during a heat wave is like any other time: We completely lack control of our surroundings. We can make no attempt at comfort and we have no outlet to voice concern." What summer heat means for people behind bars:

NEW: Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, convicted based in part on forensic evidence now widely regarded as junk science, is officially a free man. “I am flooded with relief,” one of his lawyers said.

They keep calling them “inmates” but it’s mostly a pretrial facility.

Uh huh.

An advocate to end forced prison labor hopes a court ruling from this spring will finally stop Colorado prisons from sending people to solitary confinement for refusing to work. But, she cautions, “there’s going to have to be a lot more pushing.”

“The new report … presents a staggering array of crass and offensive messages, with Goode regularly using slurs and demeaning terms for Black, Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ people, as well as individuals with mental or physical disabilities.”

“Canton officials released an internal affairs report on former Sgt. Sean Goode [on June 29], offering a stinging rebuke of the former police officer whose slur- and expletive-laden messages targeted a startling span of ethnic groups, minorities, and other protected classes.” #Massachusetts #mapoli

Also, I found another $182.50 of expenditures on the DA’s private legal counsel, bringing the total up to $22,226.51. That doesn’t include the $12,480.87 the DA’s office had to pay for my legal fees. All of that is public money that could have been saved if the DA just complied with the law.

Kind of surprising that DA David Sullivan has been so insistent that his office acted in good faith by withholding the names of cops who were charged with crimes but doesn’t want the public to see all the emails showing that his employees acted in good faith. Go figure!

NEW: After a failed legal fight to block the public from seeing the names of cops who were charged with crimes, Northwestern DA David Sullivan’s office is refusing to release communications with its private legal counsel that could shed light on prosecutors’ decision to keep the public in the dark.

Graham wrote that another detective was present when a confidential informant bought heroin from the apartment even though records showed the second officer could not have been there at the time, the decision says.

According to the Appeals Court decision, Brockton Police Lieutenant Matthew Graham included false information in a sworn affidavit when he applied for a warrant to search an apartment where officers seized drugs in April 2016.

NEW: The #Massachusetts Appeals Court on April 21 overturned a man’s drug-trafficking convictions after the lead investigator, a Brockton police detective who was later promoted to lieutenant, made “materially false” statements when applying for a search warrant a decade ago. #mapoli

"He's joking with his friends about dragging Black people from the back of his car," Scapicchio said. "He's joking with his friends about stopping Black people for nothing." www.nbcboston.com/news/local/c... #Massachusetts #mapoli

"A Boston Globe article from 20 years ago shows the same dispute playing out almost verbatim: of seven prisoner suicides across the prison system in 2006, two had occurred in segregated cells or units. Today, BAUs can also be described as segregated units." #mapoli #bospoli

Photos reveal stark isolation inside Mass. prison units tied to suicides: ‘God help me’

Thank you to @boltsmag.org and @nobleingram.bsky.social and @taniel.bsky.social for featuring “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” Q&A on police surveillance — one of the most important issues of our day. boltsmag.org/everything-e...

This is one of the oldest functions of policing deciding which families are protected and which ones get torn apart 👇🏿👇🏿 youtube.com/shorts/FXIPH...

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

@wcvb5.bsky.social + @northeasternu.bsky.social’s School of Journalism reviewed state disciplinary data & internal affairs reports and identified 50+ officers currently working in law enforcement in #Mapoli after resigning or retiring from their previous police job to avoid getting in trouble.

Despite police reforms, these MA officers resigned to avoid discipline — and got hired again | Click on the image to read the full story

If the judge does not grant Peixoto bail, he could remain incarcerated for years while the district attorney’s office appeals the ruling that overturned his conviction.

Brian Peixoto’s lawyer said that after his murder conviction was overturned, he was transferred from the prison where he was participating in programs, including training a service dog, to a county jail where he was put in solitary confinement.

NEW: After Brian Peixoto’s 1997 murder conviction was thrown out due to new scientific evidence, a Fall River judge is considering whether to grant him bail while prosecutors appeal the ruling. #Massachusetts

TIL the worcester county sheriff has a non-profit named worcester county sheriff civil process division llc staffed by the same sheriff's deputies that are in the regular office, accounting partly for the ~$3 million annual revenue they aren't reporting, according to new ig report. Literal mafia lol

NEW: Mass. inspector general faults sheriffs for using private bank accounts commonwealthbeacon.org/criminal-jus...

Well worth 6 minutes of your time today: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Not sure why the Governor’s team spent last week placing an editorial in the Boston Globe criticizing the Governor’s Council instead of focusing on nominating a qualified candidate, but if she wants to beat a dead horse… @mapoli.bsky.social @bospoli.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/02/o...

This is an overturned conviction after *thirty years* There are so many wild details in here, including the cops/prosecutors making up the whole murder timeline & the fact that the accused is still *denied bail* waiting for retrial

NEW: A jury convicted Brian Peixoto of murdering his girlfriend’s three-year-old son—but three decades later, a judge ruled that new scientific evidence calls the verdict into doubt.

What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again. 4/4

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

A #Boston murder trial “was delayed again due to Suffolk County prosecutors’ failure to reveal the existence of a database listing disciplinary actions taken against members of the #Massachusetts State Police crime lab.”

ICE had 6 fucking vehicles at my local courthouse in Massachusetts this morning. They're here and they're terrorizing people. Just because the tactics have changed doesn't mean their impact on our communities has changed. The Massachusetts Senate needs to pass the PROTECT Act ASAP.

I wrote about a landmark Pennsylvania Sup Ct ruling barring mandatory life in prison w/o parole for felony murder convictions. The court broke w/ state precedent to embrace an independent interpretation of the state constitution, rooted in PA’s Quaker history. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

MA SJC holds today that police waiting 24 hours to make a civil traffic stop for an observed violation was unreasonable, violating art. 14 of the MA Declaration of Rights/4th Amendment. Pretextual nature of the stop not invalidated, though. #mapoli @statecourtreport.org www.mass.gov/doc/commonwe...

A man who was deported after being released from a Massachusetts state prison wonders how the state can justify working in partnership with ICE. “The governor has the power to hold back. But they played a role to allow this to happen to me.”

Gang databases "represent yet another black box of U.S. policing—a system in which an individual can be labeled, tracked, surveilled, and harassed based on innocuous criteria." Sharon Brett on how police manufacture criminality—with life-altering consequences

Included on this list is Lt. Andres Lopez, who is a Lieutenant on SERT and has been accused of excessive force on multiple occasions, including in the assault that led to Shacoby Kenny's death in December. #bospoli #mapoli Still no accountability or transparency about an independent investigation!

Mercy delayed, mercy denied: How Mass. medical parole leaves many to die in prison

The warehouse model of prison isn’t working, education is chicagoreader.com/city-life/in...

AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps: apnews.com/article/immi...

The Waiting Game: Thousands Of Mass Prisoners Are Stuck On Education Waitlists With waitlists nearly triple the size of enrollment, prisoner rights advocates say the DOC prioritizes punishment over preparation binj.news/2026/04/08... #LocalNewsDay GiveToBINJ.org

2,353 people in Massachusetts prisons are waiting for educational programming. Only 897 are enrolled. The peer-led programs that actually work are not being allowed to expand. We are pushing to change that. Full story: binj.news/2026/04/08/t...

Among Healey's 32 District Court nominees, "18 (56 percent) come from law enforcement backgrounds, almost all former assistant district attorneys. Just three (9 percent) come from legal services backgrounds, meaning institutional public defenders or legal aid attorneys. That is a ratio of 6 to 1."