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| Concord, Mass. Prison Chief Removed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/28/2004 |
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The corrections official who ordered the transfer of defrocked priest John J. Geoghan to another prison, where he was slain last summer, has been removed from his position. Michael Grant lost his job Monday as head of the Concord prison. A Department of Correction spokeswoman, Abbe Nelligan, denied there was any relationship between Grant's removal and Geoghan's death, saying the change was part of acting commissioner Kathleen M. Dennehy's effort to assemble her own management team. "I can definitely say these changes have nothing to do with the Geoghan incident," Nelligan said. She wouldn't say if Grant was fired or reassigned. Questions have been raised about why Geoghan, convicted of child molestation, was transferred to a maximum security prison in Shirley, even though a board at the minimum security Concord prison voted to keep him there. Geoghan, a frail 68-year-old, was killed by fellow inmate Joseph L Druce, a convicted murderer, on Aug. 23, five months after his transfer from the prison in Concord to the protective custody unit at the prison in Shirley. Leslie Walker, executive director of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, which was representing Geoghan at the time of his death, said she believed that Grant's decision to send Geoghan to Shirley played a role in his removal. "I find it hard to believe Superintendent Grant's negligent override did not contribute to his removal," she said. |
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