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It's been five days since Edward Wright's murder conviction was overturned by a Hampden County judge — but he's still behind bars. Here's why.
Despite the negative impression one might have of the state’s correctional system, highlighted by reports of inmate mistreatment and injuries sustained by prison guards quelling prisoner assaults, ...
Massachusetts law cuts back on the amount of revenue generated by the commissaries at the Commonwealth's correctional ...
Massachusetts' relatively liberal stance on immigration enforcement has put the state at odds with the Trump administration, but there's one notable exception.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 47.4, extending the state’s disaster emergency for correctional facilities and modifying the blacklist on correction officers who struck.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, told reporters Thursday that he plans to reinstate many employees and programs he began cutting last week. In ...
An independent agency found no evidence of a cover-up by the police department in Canton, Massachusetts, in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe as part of an audit into the department ...
KALISPELL, Mont. - In an April 1 Flathead County Board of Adjustments meeting, the Board agreed to settle with the Montana Department of Corrections (DOC) in a 3-0 vote with one abstention. The ...
Since the CLP came to power an additional 138 officers have joined corrections ... “We’ll focus on establishing the critical mass here in Darwin first, and then as we mature, that model ...
Alleging "a history, practice and pattern of failing to comply" with public records law, an open government watchdog group is suing the state Corrections Department. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by ...