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| Double bunking expected |
| By The Boston Globe |
| Published: 10/07/2008 |
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MASSACHUSETTS - Many inmates at the maximum security prison in Shirley may soon have to double up in their cells, under a plan by the state Department of Correction to contend with the highest inmate count in 20 years. Department spokeswoman Diane Wiffin confirmed that the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center would become the only maximum security facility in the state to have double-bunking, but she would not specify how many beds are being added or when inmates will be moved in together. Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, said the corrections commissioner told him that the agency is installing 500 beds. That would increase the inmate count by 40 percent to 50 percent. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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Our facility in Missouri has been getting steadily more crowded. We have even refurbished and reopened a building that had been closed for several years to house new offenders. Even with a brand new facility that opened about five years ago just ten miles down the road, the overcrowding is getting to be a real problem. We are holding offenders for sometimes two or three months who are waiting for transfer to other camps. Several years ago our max capacity was somewhere around 2,500. Now it is around 3000. And more keep coming in all the time. Is there any answer to this? Probaly not. We'll soldier on and do the best we can, but something is going to reach a breaking point soon, I think.