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| Shortened sentences: How long do inmates actually serve in Massachusetts prisons and jails? |
| By masslive.com- Rebecca Everett |
| Published: 07/19/2016 |
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One year ago this month, a Springfield District Court judge saw a man he had recently sentenced to a year in the House of Correction again stand in front of him in handcuffs because he had allegedly been selling drugs again. It was less than three months after his conviction. According to The Republican article at the time, Judge William Boyle became even more incensed when he learned that Ishmael "Kiko" Delgado, now 31, of Springfield, had spent 14 days incarcerated before being allowed out on the Hampden County Sheriff Department's Day Reporting Program. "One year equals two weeks? So if I want to give him a month what do I do – sentence him to two years?," Boyle said in the courtroom. Read More. |
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