Those Who Don’t Learn From History May Be Destined To Go To Prison

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3/27: Prof Marla Miller and Jessica Johnson from the UMass History Dept., Elizabeth Sharpe from Historic Northampton, and Tara Parrish from the Pioneer Valley Project on mass incarceration across America, in Massachusetts, and here in the Valley; Joanne Marqusee, President and CEO of Cooley Dickinson Health Care, and John Heaps, President and CEO of Florence Bank, on our community’s response to the opioid crisis; Political Gold with Josh Silver.

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