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Massachusetts Prison Closure Reflects Success of Criminal Justice Reforms
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2024, page 29
On January 24, 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) announced it was closing the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) in Concord, and a report released the same month by a pair of local nonprofits celebrated the decision for reflecting the success of 2018’s Criminal Justice Reform Act (CJRA).
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