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MA: Woman serving shoplifting sentence dies at Framingham

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Woman serving shoplifting sentence dies at Framingham prison By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / December 5, 2009 The Boston Globe A 38-year-old former Dedham woman serving a one-year prison sentence for shoplifting died Thursday at the minimum-security South Middlesex Correctional Center in Framingham, and authorities are investigating to determine the cause. A roommate of Kelly A. Donovan told employees at the center at 3:43 a.m. that Donovan was having difficulty breathing, according to Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the prison system. Emergency medical personnel from the Framingham Fire Department responded within minutes, but Donovan was pronounced dead at 3:58 a.m. There was no evidence of foul play, Wiffin said, and the death did not appear to be a suicide...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 06, 2009 (boomark / email).