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MA: Testimony by Lois Ahrens to DOC Commissioner Clark on barriers to speaking to Lifers Group at Norfolk

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From Cell Block to City Block: Strategies for a Successful Re-Entry My name is Lois Ahrens. I am the founder and Director of The Real Cost of Prisons Project, a Northampton-based national organization. With Donald Petigny-Perry, I also organized the Western Massachusetts CORI Education Project. The Real Cost of Prisons Project created three comic books focusing on drug policy, the financing and siting of prisons and the incarceration of women. 125,000 comic books have been printed and more than 100,000 have been sent free of charge to people around the country. More than 15,000 have been sent to prisoners including some to prisoners in Massachusetts. A request for comic books is why I was first contacted by someone from the Lifers Group at Norfolk Prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).