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 […]
Corrections
Posted inCriminal Justice
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
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 […]