Program consists of a number of magazine-style segments, including a Stephen Curwood interview with Daniel Campbell (of Prison Reform Organization) and Mackie MacLeod (of Family and Friends of Prisoners) on the state of correctional institutions in Massachusetts; an 'Open Platform' debate moderated by Melvin Moore on prisoner classification and whether or not it has merit (with debaters Tom Sellers, Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, and Dave Collins Program Coordinator for the Cambridge Office of the American Friends Service Committee, as well as guest panelists Sarah-Ann Shaw of WBZ TV and Jerry Taylor of the Boston Globe); the 'Community Calendar'; and the 'Say Brother News' with reporters Karen Holmes, Eric Sampedro, Margaret Tarter, Leah Fletcher, and Tanya Hart. Sampedro's reports features a brief interview with Boston Indian Council's Mildred Noble (Social Counselor) and Clif Saunders (Executive Director) regarding the death of a homeless native American woman and an interview with Fernando Gutierrez (Bilingual Coordinator for the Tri-City Mental Health Center, Malden); Tarter's report includes an interview with Rene Scott of Transition House, a nonprofit agency set up to protect battered women.