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Massachusetts Jail Releases Prisoners to Meet Court-Ordered Population Levels

Loaded on March 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News March, 2008, page 34
Filed under: Overcrowding, PLRA, Consent Decrees (PLRA). Location: Massachusetts.
A modified consent decree order entered by a Massachusetts federal district court has resulted in the release of at least 100 prisoners from the Worcester County House of Correction (WCHC).

The order came in a class action lawsuit filed by WCHC prisoners in 1989 that complained of overcrowding and other ...

 

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