STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE EVERY SHERIFF’S department in Massachusetts has agreed to provide people incarcerated at county jails and houses of correction with at least 10 minutes of free phone calls each week and to reduce the cost of subsequent calls, the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association announced. Currently, each county sheriff’s department can set its own […]
Corrections
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Downing opposes new prison for women
DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL candidate Ben Downing said the Baker administration should abandon any plans to build a new prison for women inmates in Norfolk, saying “investing in incarceration is the exact opposite of what Massachusetts needs.” Downing took the side of advocates who have said the state should take the estimated $50 million needed to build […]
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May 1 melee at the Bristol Cty. Jail was not unique
AS MASSACHUSETTS Attorney General Maura Healey recently found, corrections officers at the Bristol County Jail on May 1 used excessive use of force to quell a nonviolent demonstration by non-criminal ICE detainees who were concerned about contracting COVID-19 in the jail’s cramped quarters. At the center of the complaint were actions by the jail’s in-house […]