Following a Jan. 12 review of Massachusetts’ criminal justice system, The Council of State Governments confirmed that two in five people released from the Commonwealth’s prisons are freed without the ...

It’s been a year since a law that made prison and jail phone calls free went into effect, which made Massachusetts the fifth state in the country to lift a financial burden on prisoners and their ...

(TNS) — A new program inside a Massachusetts prison is teaching a small group of incarcerated men the tools of a new trade — coding and web design — in the hopes that it can help the men succeed when ...

SHIRLEY, Mass. (WWLP) – A Massachusetts correctional officer is now facing felony charges for allegedly smuggling drugs into a state prison in Shirley. Berkshire County man allegedly shot and killed ...

Another incarcerated person has died in a Massachusetts prison, according to officials, bringing the total number of reported deaths to four in less than a month. The death happened on Oct. 3 at the ...

Massachusetts' Norfolk County Sheriff Patrick McDermott is lobbying for federal funding that will help convicts reacclimate into society, saying ultra-harsh conditions in prison are a thing of the ...

After correction officers were seriously injured and attacked by inmates in high-profile incidents, including one of the most recent at the Souza-Baranowski maximum security prison in Shirley, new ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The state’s corrections chief said this week that the safety of correctional officers is “a priority we cannot compromise” and detailed the steps taken in the wake of last week’s ...

Michael Sullivan in Framingham, Mass on Nov. 20. FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — For the nearly three decades that he was behind bars, Michael Sullivan’s mother and four siblings died, his girlfriend moved ...

NORFOLK, Mass. (WWLP)– A man who escaped a prison in Massachusetts on Tuesday is back in custody. According to the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC), Kevin O’Brien, aged 72, was serving his ...