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New Braintree site vetoed

Description: Governor's Council blocks purchase of New Braintree site for proposed prison because of outstanding questions about foreknowledge and motives of property owners.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1989

New interest in death penalty

Description: Guilty verdict and life sentence of murderer Daniel LaPlante resurrect interest in death penalty. Barbed wire chain link fence outside prison. Capital punishment. Superior Court Judge Robert Barton.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1988

Norfolk jail

Description: Norfolk County House of Correction exteriors. Courtroom sketches of school committee member Paul Ellison, attorney Monroe Inker, Judge Walter McLaughlin. The Norfolk County House of Correction is a minimum security prison. It is considered the cleanest, and one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. It is overcrowded, like many other correctional institutions. Its capacity is 72 inmates, while the current population is 126. The facility has a work release program, a welding class, educational programs, and maintenance crews. Recently convicted, Paul Ellison was previously a history teacher in the Boston Public School system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1976

Norfolk jail overcrowding

Description: OVERCROWDING AT NORFOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF CORRECTION. SHERIFF CLIFFORD MARSHALL. Jail cells. Guard opens and closes barred door to cell tier, showing heavy sliding locking mechanism.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/10/1986

Norfolk overcrowding

Description: To alleviate Norfolk overcrowding, some non-violent prisoners may be released to home detention & will have to wear electronic transmitter on ankle so their whereabouts can be monitored.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/18/1988

O'Neil announces for sheriff

Description: On his birthday, Albert Dapper O'Neil announces his candidacy for Suffolk County sheriff. “I'm a law and order man.” Decries alleged patronage in the jail system under Dennis Kearney. Birthday cake decorated with sheriff's badge. Will not accept contributions from city or county employees. Poses for group photos. “Dump Kearney” button.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1978

Overcrowded prison system

Description: Assoc. corrections commissioner Dennis Humphrey says lack of rehabilitation, programming, training for prisoners is due to severe overcrowding. MCI Concord interiors. Inmates play cards, lie in bunks
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1990

Peddocks Island

Description: Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor is proposed as prison site, but Ilyas Bhatti & John DeVillars want to preserve it for its park land, old brick buildings and fort.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1990

Poets in Norfolk prison

Description: Inmates at Norfolk County House of Correction read their poetry. Prof. Elizabeth Barker of BU has run poetry readings within the prison for twenty years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1991

Prisons

Description: Prisons, Deer Island. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/12/1981