Newly obtained records, photos and eyewitness accounts raise questions about ignored pleas for mental health care before Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting died at Souza-Baranowski.

Organizers discuss how they are fighting new women’s prisons in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois.

The Suffolk County sheriff did not follow that standard after 11 correctional officers were involved in the homicide of a Springfield man.

Sheriff Donna Buckley's correctional officers union voted no confidence, citing unsafe conditions and a hostile workplace under a new superintendent. Buckley says the union is upset over new accountab...

A judge overturned his murder convictions due to new scientific evidence—but prosecutors say the ruling should be reversed

The investigation also found that officers involved in the Shacoby Kenny's death continued working in contact positions.

The investigation also found that officers involved in the Shacoby Kenny's death continued working in contact positions.

Since Kenny’s death, his mother and other political leaders have called for the officers involved to be suspended while the investigation is pending.

The Department of Correction has launched a digital patient portal for prisoners, part of broader reforms following six suicides in 2025.

As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.

Federal law doesn’t override the state’s public records law, the judge ruled.

Boston City Councilors approved a resolution Wednesday to call on the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department to adopt a new policy that would require officers to be put on paid administrative leave follo...

Hard-won legislation meant to limit or end solitary confinement has run up against the power of correctional systems to neutralize change.

The cresting pressure in Figueredo’s head, the family later learned from doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center, was his brain and spinal cord starting to swell.

Inmates and guards at New Bedford’s Ash Street jail swelter in summer heat waves, with no end in sight.

If we are spending that much money to incarcerate people, we should also be serious about whether the system prepares them to return home successfully.

For those with few prospects of leaving prison, the sense of hopelessness and despair can be overwhelming. I know, because I’m one of them.

Shacoby Kenny, a 32-year-old with a history of mental health problems, died last year following a fight with corrections staff.

PROVINCETOWN — Chris Tansey, a teacher from Harwich, has two aims this summer: starting his new radio show on WOMR and walking from Provincetown to Plymouth to protest conditions for […]

The metal mirrors that Alabama prisons use distort our faces. When a glass one suddenly appeared, I truly saw myself for the first time in 26 years.

The officers worked at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, where five of their colleagues were injured in an attack in September 2024.

The Plymouth County jail houses more than 500 immigration detainees. Why can’t we find out what kind of medical care they’re getting?

Several organizations pledged to protect inmates’ rights, including Lawyers for Civil Rights and the Campaign Legal Center, have weighed in on the release of the long-awaited report on inmates’…

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With waitlists nearly triple the size of current enrollment, prisoner rights advocates say the DOC prioritizes punishment over preparation

Expediting medical parole simply the right thing to do.

Physicians and former prisoners want inmates to have access to continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps and better diabetes education while incarcerated.

Editor’s note: This article contains photographs of a prison housing unit where deaths have occurred.

A MassLive and Springfield Republican investigation