The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of ...

The inmate then takes several swings at the ... procedures and protocols inside all Massachusetts prisons. “We’ve been here before,” the union board wrote. “ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

Massachusetts DOC settled a class-action lawsuit with reforms and over $6 million after a 2020 incident at SBCC, improving ...

WORCESTER - Three inmates accused in a brutal attack at a maximum security prison in central Massachusetts were brought to court Thursday to face charges in a room full of officers. The prisoners ...

An inmate who was recently granted clemency from then-President Joe Biden has been charged in connection with smuggling K2-laced paper into federal prison. A state worker with the Massachusetts ...

Officers hired under the age of 21 won’t be assigned to posts or duties that require a firearm but must be eligible to have a license.