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Twenty-one first-degree murderers set free under stateâs new compassionate release law
Critics want legislation to bar first-degree murderers from being released
By Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes Globe Staff,Updated March 14, 2021, 5:49 p.m.
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Maureen Regan Moriarty held a photo of her father, John Regan, while sitting in her living room.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
John Stote was serving a mandatory life sentence for the 1995 murder of a Springfield restaurant owner when he was released in January on medical parole. At the time, the 61-year-old was hospitalized with COVID-19 and on a ventilator. The stateâs top correctional official determined it was unlikely he would survive.
I Donât Want To Die Here : One Woman s Experience With COVID While Incarcerated
South Middlesex Correctional Center in Framingham, Mass., is seen in this March 1, 2021, file photo.
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Then, she got COVID-19.
âItâs been horrible. Itâs been hard mentally on me and the other women in here,â Nevarez said, speaking by phone from South Middlesex Correctional Center (SMCC) in Framingham, Mass., where she had been in pre-release for the last two years. She served seven years before that at Massachusetts Correctional Institution â Framingham.
As has happened since the start of the pandemic in prisons across the country, a COVID-19 outbreak hit SMCC at the end of January. In total, Nevarez and 11 other women at the facility â almost half of the population in the minimum security unit at SMCC â eventually tested positive for the disease.
3 in 4 Bristol County inmates refuse vaccine, mirroring hesitancy among staff Published Tue Mar 02 2021 11:00:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Last May, a densely populated wing of a jail in Dartmouth, Massachusetts erupted in violence amid growing tensions over coronavirus safety. Why are the jail s inmates now refusing the vaccine? by Ben Berke
In the past year, Covid has penetrated Bristol County’s jails on several occasions, spreading from staff members free to mingle in the outside world to inmates who sleep in bunk beds spaced only a few feet apart and transmit the disease behind bars.
An initial outbreak in May infected nearly 40 inmates and 30 staff members. Fear and confusion over quarantine protocols led to a violent conflict between the jail’s staff and a group of immigrants awaiting deportation. Infections spiked again during the winter holidays, when more than 100 staff members tested positive.