Processing--Hearing-of-Complaints-for-Judicial-Review.pdf
Massachusetts Superior Court procedure for handling certiorari proceedings, which are used to challenge prison administrative decisions about discipline and classification.
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MCLS Library
The Library contains articles, reports, and links to other websites of interest to people who are concerned about prisons and jails in Massachusetts.
Disability-Law-Center---Complaint.pdf
Complaint filed in federal court in Massachusetts seeking to compel the Department of Correction to improve its treatment of mentally ill prisoners.
Final-Report-of-the-External-Female-Offender-REview-Panel-Group-C-71305.pdf
Report on operations of the Massachusetts Department of Correction affecting female prisoners. It was prepared by a committee that included experts from outside the DOC.
UMASS-Rpt-on-Women-in-Prison-in-MA-March-2005.PDF
Report from the University of Massachusetts on women in the custody of the state's Department of Correction.
Harshbarger-Commission-Report-June-2004.pdf
This is the Final Report of the Governor's Commission on Correctional Reform. It provides a good review of the Massachusetts DOC's problems and what ought to be done to address them. This is a LONG document.
Corrections-Advisory-Council-Preliminary-Report-June-2005.pdf
The Department of Corrections Advisory Council was created to monitor the progress of the DOC with the recommendations of the Harshbarger Commission.
Ciampi.PDF
This terrible decision radically abandons decades of careful legislation and exposes all funds in Massachusetts prisoners' canteen accounts to seizure for disciplinary violations.
Donohue.PDF
This decision provides Massachusetts sheriffs with an important tool for controlling overcrowding in the county houses of correction by. It holds that sheriffs may place carefully screened prisoners on home confinement monitored by GPS bracelets once they are within 18 months of parole eligibility.