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MA: Letters to the Editor of the Boston Globe on jail "riot"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

OVERCROWDED INMATES Middlesex Jail prisoners reached a breaking point July 9, 2009 RE ?PRISONERS force evacuation of jail: Vandalism was cause of flooding, sheriff reports?? (Metro, July 6): The conditions under which we hold prisoners awaiting trial at Cambridge?s Middlesex Jail - prisoners who supposedly are presumed innocent until proven guilty - are scandalous. Instead of the legally guaranteed speedy trial, those awaiting trial can be held for months under confinement more severe than even the miserable conditions in our state prisons. Now we find out in the Globe that the jail held two and a half times more prisoners than the facility was intended to. We blame the prisoners for the destruction of property that took place after nine detainees damaged a fire-suppression system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).