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MA: State public safety chief says threat of closing prisons is real

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State public safety chief says threat of closing prisons is real By Kyle Cheney State House News Service Posted Feb 17, 2011 BOSTON ? Gov. Deval Patrick?s public safety chief had a message Thursday for those who have questioned the administration?s seriousness about a plan to close a pair of state prisons because of budget restrictions: the threat is real. ?If we receive the appropriation that was in [the governor?s budget] for the Department of Corrections, prisons will close,? Mary Beth Heffernan, state secretary of public safety, told reporters after a panel discussion at Suffolk University. ?It?s not gamesmanship.? Heffernan said the governor hopes to ?alleviate the need to close prisons? by passing legislation that would permit certain drug offenders serving mandatory minimum sentences to seek early parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).