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Mass. jails crumbling
By The Sun Chronicle
Published: 11/30/2007

MASSACHUSETTS - Each day in Massachusetts, prisoners, correctional officers, judges and lawyers find themselves in state facilities that are old, overcrowded and, sometimes, deteriorating and unsafe.

Bristol County's Ash Street Jail in New Bedford is the oldest operating jail in America. Built in 1828, it has been the subject of lawsuits challenging conditions in the largely windowless lockup. Read more.

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Comments:

  1. crazyneedles on 06/19/2010:

    has anybody had asbesto related illness from being in the jail for a long period of time?

  2. crazyneedles on 06/18/2010:

    just wondering if anybody has any asbesto related illness from being in the jail for a long period of time?


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