SOME ADVOCATES AND EXPERTS PUSH BACK AGAINST SHERIFF’S MASS. AND CASS PROPOSAL The Boston GlobeSeptember 27, 2021By Danny McDonald Some civil rights advocates and public health experts are calling the Suffolk sheriff’s proposal to use one of his buildings as a treatment center to alleviate the suffering in Boston’s Mass. and Cass area deeply misguided […]
Sheriff Proposes Committing People Living At Mass And Cass To A Re-Purposed Detention Center
Sheriff Proposes Committing People Living At Mass And Cass To A Re-Purposed Detention Center September 26, 2021WBURBy Deb Becker Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins wants to move people living in tents near “Mass and Cass” to a former detention center in the South Bay House of Correction. The area, at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and […]
Suffolk Sheriff Tompkins proposes to convert empty detention center into temporary housing for people living in tents by Mass. and Cass
Suffolk Sheriff Tompkins proposes to convert empty detention center into temporary housing for people living in tents by Mass. and Cass September 25, 2021The Boston GlobeBy Shirley Leung What is more humane, allowing the squalor and rampant drug use at Boston’s Mass. and Cass street encampment to continue, or relocating some people living there into […]