Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

MA: Gov. Patrick pushes for a state takeover of county jails, but at least one sheriff isn?t giving up his turf so easily

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Of course, even where the jails are supposedly controlled by the state as in Hampden County, the sheriff still has free reign. In Hampden County, (sheriff) Ashe has found a way to both build a new jail for women AND move jail-like programs into the community...all under the guise of knowing what is best for the community and those in cages. Patrick pushes for a state takeover of county jails, but at least one sheriff isn?t giving up his turf so easily By Bruce Mohl Commonwealth Magazine Winter 2009 Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is headed for a high-noon showdown with Gov. Deval Patrick. The Patrick administration is trying to rein in Hodgson and the state?s other elected sheriffs in an effort to consolidate control over an overcrowded state and county corrections system that oversees more than 25,000 inmates and has a combined budget of $1 billion...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).