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Challenges for prisons chief
By WBUR
Published: 05/01/2007

BOSTON, MA - On Beacon Hill today, a joint oversight committee will look into the alarming rate of suicides in prison. Over the past year, the suicide rate in Massachusetts prisons has risen to four times the national average.

The mental health of prisoners is just one of many challenges facing a yet-to-be-named new commissioner for the state's Department of Correction. WBUR's Monica Brady-Myerov reports. Read more.

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