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Maxi Kolb, an exchange student from Germany, takes a photo of a group of Santas and elves getting ready for their annual Christmas morning run on Main Street in Auburn, Maine, on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. The group gets together every Christmas morning and runs a loop through Lewiston and Auburn. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP)
Published December 25. 2020 11:57PM
BOSTON (AP) A look at coronavirus developments in New England:
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Prisoner advocates in Massachusetts are redoubling their legal efforts to release inmates from state prisons because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts argued in a Suffolk Superior Court filing Thursday that the state Department of Correction needs to release inmates to home confinement, furlough, medical parole and other legal measures so that the remaining prisoners can safely socially distance behind bars.
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Advocates ask court to release inmates as COVID-19 sweeps through state prisons
Prisoner health conditions âworse now than at any time since the pandemic beganâ
By Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff,Updated December 24, 2020, 1:17 p.m.
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One of every six Massachusetts prison inmates â and hundreds of correctional workers â have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last six weeks, new figures show, underscoring prisonersâ vulnerability and spurring new efforts to free some of them.
Late Wednesday, lawyers in a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Correction made a dramatic plea in court filings to reduce the inmate population, sharing
Robert Foxworth released from prison nearly 30 years after murder conviction
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated December 23, 2020, 6:53 p.m.
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A man who spent nearly three decades in state prison for a 1991 Dorchester killing that both prosecutors and defense attorneys say he didnât commit was ordered released Wednesday by a single justice of the state Supreme Judicial Court.
Robert Foxworth, 53, was convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Kenneth McLean, a suspected drug dealer, but has consistently maintained his innocence. Attorneys argued that he should be released in part because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused outbreaks in some prisons.