MA Department of Correction Continues to Defy Legal Mandates for Independent Oversight Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic Statement of Black and Pink Massachusetts, Building Up People Not Prisons Coalition, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, and Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts September 8, 2021 The Department of Correction (DOC) has defied […]
‘Cautiously Optimistic’: Local Advocates React To DOC’s Intent To End Solitary Confinement
June 30, 2021
WGBH
By Arun Rath and Matt Baskin
Department of Correction moves to end solitary confinement
June 29, 2021
CommonWealth Magazine
By Shira Schoenberg
Mass. Department Of Correction Announces Intent To Do Away With Restrictive Housing
June 30, 2021
WGBH
By Esteban Bustillos
Proposed changes to privileges, regulations have prisoners on edge
By Milton Valencia The Boston Globe October 12, 2016 series of proposed changes to Department of Correction guidelines has prisoner rights-advocates, and specifically the prisoners themselves, on edge. The proposals include changes to department policies in prisoner mail, telephone and visitation privileges, including at the maximum security prison in Shirley, known as the Souza-Baranowski Correctional […]