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| MA's Bridgewater Prison Has Troubled History |
| By thephoenix.com |
| Published: 09/09/2010 |
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On a winter evening around 11 pm, the former superintendent of Old Colony Correctional Center walked into a Rhode Island restaurant with a gun in his pocket. Paul Murphy made his way through the dining room to the table where his recently estranged wife, Joan, was sitting with some friends. He sat down at the table and pointed the gun at her face. "I love you," he said. Then he squeezed the trigger. He shot his wife in the hand and neck, injuries she would survive. Murphy, a man who had overseen a prison of 750 souls, then turned the gun on himself and ended his own life. The shooting, this past January 17, was senseless. But it was not unprecipitated. The system that sustained Murphy — allowing a future killer to run a Massachusetts prison — is a microcosm of public penitentiaries nationwide. It's symbolic of a culture that often wreaks as much havoc on the families of prison personnel as it does on convicts and their relatives. But Old Colony, the prison Murphy ran, is particularly problematic, troubled by allegations of racism, sexual misconduct, and egregious human-rights violations. An investigation by the Phoenix reveals that OCCC, located 30 miles south of Boston, appears to be especially toxic. The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) supervises more than 10,000 convicted criminals in 21 facilities. Within that system, despite its chronic failures, the medium-security OCCC has for years been overshadowed by problems at maximum-security state prisons in Walpole and Shirley, according to Leslie Walker of the Downtown Crossing–based Prisoners' Legal Services (PLS). Read More. |
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