Massachusetts

About 200 Mass. corrections workers suspended over vaccine mandate

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The state has fired 12 DOC employees so far

More than 100 Mass. COs suspended in past month for refusing COVID vaccine

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The state began firing officers last week and about a dozen more disciplinary hearings are slated for Monday

How to build a layered contraband detection strategy and why it matters (eBook)

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Smiths Detection

Multiple screening steps and checkpoints, combined with varied screening technology, will help thwart smuggling into your facility to keep officers and inmates safer

Unvaccinated Mass. COs fired over COVID mandate

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The initial round of termination letters was sent Tuesday; impacted officers now have 10 days to appeal

Mass. correctional officers union has day in court over vaccine mandate

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The case comes after the Massachusetts State Police unsuccessfully sued Gov. Charlie Baker

Sales of 'Whitey' Bulger memorabilia rise with film release

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Memorabilia related to Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger is being peddled to coincide with the release of the new Johnny Depp movie on Bulger's life

Shelter dog turned K-9 featured in new PBS series

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The Worcester County sheriff's department in central Massachusetts turned to the shelter when there wasn't enough money in the budget to replace its retiring tracking dogs

Mass. law allows bodybuilding former correctional officer to collect disability

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Since 1997, the state has forced only 117 of the more than 15,000 state and local public employees on disability back to work

Mass. inmate uses nail clippers to dig hole in ceiling

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No one has ever successfully broken out of one of the cells Angel Villanueva was in, used primarily for pretrial inmates

Western Mass. terror suspect stabbed Franklin County jail nurse

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Stabbed a nurse with a pen in the head, puncturing her skin

State prosecutor wants to try Tsarnaev for officer's death

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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will still face state charges in the death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer even though he is already on death row inside a federal prison

Ex-drug lab chemist may have tainted thousands of cases

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Former chemist at a Massachusetts drug lab convicted of stealing drugs to feed her addictions may have tainted as many as 10,000 criminal prosecutions