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Part 1: Going Inside

History of Concord NH From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century
State Prison in Concord from "History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century"

Bill Blanchard was just a kid when he first came into contact with law enforcement.

"Going Inside" is the first installment of a four-part series,"The Rules Are Different Here: A Series on New Hampshire's Prisons and Jails." The full series is available here.

Featuring Bill Blanchard, ER nurse and formerly incarcerated at the New Hampshire State Prison; Devon Chaffee, Executive Director of the ACLU of New Hampshire; Richard Van Wickler, Superintendent of the Cheshire County Department of Corrections; and Kim, formerly incarcerated at the women's state prison in Goffstown and Shea Farm transitional housing.

I help guide NHPR’s bilingual journalism and our climate/environment journalism in an effort to fill these reporting gaps in New Hampshire. I work with our journalists to tell stories that inform, celebrate and empower Latino/a/x community members in the state through our WhatsApp news service ¿Que Hay de Nuevo, New Hampshire? as well as NHPR’s digital platforms in Spanish and English. For our By Degrees climate coverage, I work with reporters and producers to tell stories that take audience members to the places and people grappling with and responding to climate change, while explaining the forces both driving and limiting New Hampshire’s efforts to respond to this crisis.
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