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The Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC) will bring experts from the criminal justice system, academia, government and the community together to identify the underlying causes of mass incarceration.

We’ll go On the Record with the new head of Maryland Juvenile Services to hear his vision for the department, and with the founder of Freedom Reads, which sets up small libraries in spaces where people are locked up … to help them envision a positive future.

A new initiative in Baltimore will help parents in prison or recently released … to strengthen and repair their relationship with their children. We speak with the project director. Plus, a mother who spent time behind bars talks about keeping the parental bond active.

Using Census data, a new report traces where people in Maryland’s state prisons come from. The central finding? One in every 100 Baltimore residents is locked up in a state prison. We hear from advocates about how mass incarceration drains city neighborhoods.

We’ll go On the Record with a new effort in Baltimore City to strengthen bonds between mothers and fathers in prison and their children. How to reduce the generational trauma of incarceration? Deputy Mayor Faith Leach shares her personal tie to the project.

Voting rights advocates are worried that the formerly incarcerated are being denied the right to vote in this election.They point to Latasha Fason, who…