Massachusetts

Judge approves settlement over women's jail strip searches

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Settlement would prohibit male guards from videotaping strip searches of female inmates

Bank robber gets more time for striking correctional officer

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Earned an additional two years for hitting CO during scuffle with other inmates

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Mass. prisons alter policies following attorney bra search complaints

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Following the complaints of several female attorneys, correctional officers inside Massachusetts state prisons won't proceed to a pat down if it appears that a bra’s underwire has set off a metal detector

Female lawyers allege improper searches on Mass. prison visits

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Many are insisting that the search procedures are uncalled for and impede attorney's ability to counsel

Fate of thousands at stake in Mass. court arguments

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Case could determine the fate of thousands of people convicted of drug crimes based on tainted evidence

Mass. bill bars extended confinement of mentally ill inmates

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A new bill would prevent the solitary confinement of mentally ill inmates for more than 30 days

Wahlberg plea underscores risk of issuing pardons

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Massachusetts hasn't approved a pardon in more than a decade

Boston bomb case judge wants 1,000 juror summonses

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At least 1,000 people will be summoned and asked to fill out questionnaires for jury in trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Sheriff: Aaron Hernandez a model inmate

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Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins told the Boston Herald there have been "no problems, no complaints"

Mass. CO saves 3 from burning car

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A correctional officer was the first on the scene when a car rolled, hit a tree and caught on fire

Study: Low Mass. jail employee morale leads to high turnover

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Rockingham County House of Corrections study is critical of the jail's management

Appeals court sides with mother suing COs over son's attempted suicide

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Suit claims that two Knox County Jail corrections officers were deliberately indifferent to a man who later attempted suicide by hanging himself five years ago