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The DOC announced a two-year, phased plan to "suspend housing operations" at the maximum-security prison.

MCI-Cedar Junction at Walpole, where 525 men are currently held, will shutter within two years, the state's Department of Correction said Thursday.

NORTHAMPTON — A former UMass Amherst student convicted of raping a woman who accidentally fell asleep in his dorm room was sentenced to three to five years in state prison on Tuesday.Judge Richard Carey sentenced Ryder Chilcoff, of Villa Park,...

Jose L. Morales — who was found guilty of second degree murder in the July 20, 2016 stabbing death of Lee A. Daniels of Thompson, Connecticut — was sentenced to life in prison Monday in Worcester Superior Court.

GREENFIELD — An Athol man has been sentenced to six to eight years in prison on child rape charges, three weeks after his plea hearing was suspended in progress to allow him more time to consult with his attorney regarding the essential facts laid out...

GREENFIELD — An Athol man has been sentenced to six to eight years in prison on child rape charges, three weeks after his plea hearing was suspended in progress to allow him more time to consult with his attorney regarding the essential facts laid out...

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling says the state Department of Correction has not provided adequate mental health care or supervision to prisoners in mental health crisis.

The victim was identified as Dijoun C. Beasley, 26, of Dorchester.

A man is in grave condition at a Boston hospital after being shot Saturday at South Shore Plaza in Braintree. Police are searching for the shooter.

As a child I was obsessed with license plates. That sounds weird, right? What I really meant is that I found out of state plates, (any other state besides