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Tag: COVID-19

Coronavirus Plummets In Massachusetts Prisons And Jails, But Experts Urge Caution

March 10, 2021
WGBH
By Jenifer B. McKim

Third stimulus check would go to prisoners, including ‘Boston Marathon bomber’ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sen. Tom Cotton complains; But previous checks did, too

March 9, 2021
MassLive
By Benjamin Kail

Twenty-one first-degree murderers set free under state’s new compassionate release law

March 14, 2021
The Boston Globe
By Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes

Little noticed law sets off court fight over state’s responsibility to release inmates to reduce COVID risks

Feb 9, 2021
The Boston Globe
By Andrea Estes

DOC accused of ‘deliberate indifference’ to prisoners

Feb 10, 2021
CommonWealth Magazine
By Sarah Betancourt

Solitary Confinement May Worsen Covid-19 Transmission in Prisons

Feb 15, 2021
Undark
By Robin Blades

DOC moving slowly on home confinement releases

Jan 29, 2021
CommonWealth Magazine
By Sarah Betancourt

‘I’m just grateful;’ COVID vaccinations start for inmates at Worcester County Jail

Jan 22, 2021
MassLive
By Melissa Hanson

Two More Mass. Prisoners Die Of COVID, DOC Reports

Jan 22, 2021
WBUR
By Deborah Becker

Less than 10% of inmates in Bristol County say they want COVID vaccine, sheriff says

Jan 22, 2021
10 WJAR
By Kelly O’Neill

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