Donald M. Berwick

Medical doctor

The U. S. imprisons young African American men at a rate higher than the incarceration rate of Blacks in apartheid South Africa at the height of apartheid.

Prisoners re-entering communities too often get little more than a handshake and some paperwork, and they find it difficult or impossible to get housing, work, health care coverage, education or even a driver’s license<a href="http://www.mass.gov/bb/h1/fy15h1/exec_15/hbudbrief8.htm" target="_blank"></a>.

Make Massachusetts' Criminal Justice System A Model For The Nation

Pictured: Governor Deval Patrick meets with youth and community leaders at the Straight-Up Cafe in Worcester to discuss the impact of the Governor's Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) in July, 2012. Patrick will convene a conference on prisoners' re-entry into society on December 18, 2014. (Eric Haynes/Governor's Office/Flickr)

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If Massachusetts tries to rely on casino revenue, it will become a stakeholder in the gambling industry itself, tied to failing casinos.

Two Perspectives On Question 3: To Repeal Casinos Or Not To Repeal?

...money dropped into slots does not stay local: It’s shipped off to headquarters to the tune of $300,000 of foregone consumer spending per year, per slot machine.

Casinos: A Losing Bet For Massachusetts

Donald M. Berwick: "We have a chance in our state to invest in a declining industry that will harm our economy, reduce property values, kill more jobs than it adds, lower incomes, injure public safety, reduce net government revenues, increase a major mental health burden and selectively harm the poor. Or, we can stop it." (Mait Jüriado/flickr)