'A broken promise': Six weeks after city sweep of Mass. and Cass, many still don't have a place to go
Many people were displaced from their tents and sent out into the city without housing.
Source: wgbh.org
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Wu on the end of Mass. and Cass jail court: 'We need to keep doing better'
The special court, referred to as a 'Community Response Session,' ran for three weeks, in parallel with former acting Mayor Kim Janey’s executive order to clear all tents near Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue.
Source: wgbh.org
ACLU Sues City To Stop 'Fundamentally Unlawful' Tent-Clearing And Arrests At Mass. and Cass
“We’ve tried to arrest our way out of this, and it didn’t work,” ACLU executive director Carol Rose told GBH News. “When you have a law enforcement response to a public health crisis, it's simply going to stay."
Source: wgbh.org
Man arrested near Boston encampment sent to jail where there is a COVID outbreak
Attorneys say one of the men who appeared at this week's inaugural session of a new court inside the Suffolk County jail is now being held at another jail where there is a coronavirus outbreak.
Source: wbur.org
Man Arrested At Mass And Cass Denied Treatment, Sent To Worcester Jail With Ongoing COVID-19 Outbreak
A man arrested during a clearing of the homeless encampment at the Mass and Cass corridor in Boston was denied medical treatment for substance use disorder and instead was detained overnight in a correctional facility in Worcester that has an ongoing outbreak of COVID-19.
Source: wgbh.org