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Massachusetts Supreme Court Continues Trend of Easing Prison COVID-19 Protocols

Loaded on July 15, 2022 by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News July, 2022, page 56
Filed under: COVID-19. Location: Massachusetts.

by Ed Lyon

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic persisted and more variants appeared in late 2021, courts were steadily easing restrictions to mitigate its spread in prisons. A case in point: Massachusetts, where initially strong rulings by the state Supreme Court eroded over time.

As early as January 2020, before ...

 

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