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State demands prison review
By The Boston Globe
Published: 04/24/2007

BOSTON, MA - The Patrick administration said yesterday it is ordering a sweeping review of state prison operations to make sure errors that led to the wrongful confinement of at least 14 inmates -- one for more than four years -- are corrected and not repeated.

Responding to a Globe Spotlight Team report yesterday about a series of sentence miscalculations, Public Safety Commissioner Kevin M. Burke called the mistakes unacceptable and said the state Department of Correction violated its moral and ethical obligation by not notifying the inmates about the errors. Read more.

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