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MA: Double bunking expected at prison. Shirley prisoners stage protest

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Double bunking expected at prison Shirley prisoners stage protest Boston Globe By Julie Masis, Globe Correspondent | October 7, 2008 Many inmates at the maximum security prison in Shirley may soon have to double up in their cells, under a plan by the state Department of Correction to contend with the highest inmate count in 20 years. Department spokeswoman Diane Wiffin confirmed that the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center would become the only maximum security facility in the state to have double-bunking, but she would not specify how many beds are being added or when inmates will be moved in together. Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, said the corrections commissioner told him that the agency is installing 500 beds...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).