Description: Boston Bar Association reports on the drug problem and the burden it places on court system and prisons. They propose changing sentencing. Drug use and arrest b-roll.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1989
Description: CHARLES STREET JAIL (SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/10/1985
Description: EXTERIOR OF CHARLES STREET (SUFFOLK COUNTY) JAIL. SHERIFF DENNIS KEARNEY
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/29/1985
Description: B-roll footage of Charles Street Jail building models from various angles; footage of snow outside and jail building; Suffolk County Jail exterior and sign shots from various angles. CHARLES STREET JAIL, SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF DENNIS KEARNEY, JUDGE W. ARTHUR GARRITY PRESS CONFERENCE, INTERIOR, EXTERIORS, BARBED WIRE, TRUCKS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/08/1982
Description: Charles Street Jail exteriors. A reporter asks members of administration about issues with the Charles Street Jail and Deer Island regarding the possibility of a new combined facility. Stated problems with building a new jail include security and the size of the proposed site. Charles Street physical plant issues include plumbing, recreation facilities, eating facilities, kitchen facilities, and noise level.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1977
Description: Charles Street jail interiors. Four tiers of cell blocks seen through chain link fence. Zoom into guards on ground level. Guard patrols upper walkway. Cell behind bars with toilet and cot. Interview with Suffolk County Sheriff Robert Rufo about delay in transferring inmates to state prisons after sentencing. Charles Street is supposed to serve only as pretrial detention center but prison system is so overcrowded that inmates stay there much longer than intended in inappropriate incarceration, without rehabilitation support and furlough programs. They shoot cutaways. Howard Husock does several takes of reporter standup in front of the jail.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1980
Description: Robert Rufo, Dennis Kearney, Gov. Michael Dukakis at groundbreaking for modular unit expansion at Charles Street Jail.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/18/1986
Description: Now that SJC has forbidden the mattresses on the floor arrangement, Suffolk County sheriff Robert Rufo must solve overcrowding at Charles Street Jail by transferring some prisoners to other facilities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/09/1988
Description: Interview with (?) Hennessy at the Federal Courthouse in Boston, MA re: crime, mandatory sentencing, prison levels, etc.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/15/1981
Description: Interview with Albert "Dapper" O'Neil during his run for Suffolk County sheriff. He accuses his oppenent of corruption and complains that no Boston newspapers will report the negative allegations he has made against his opponent. He discusses his plan to make the sheriff's department more visible and says "I'm a law and order man." He discusses his plan for the Charles St. Jail. He defends the office of the sheriff in the face of claims that the state should take over its responsibilities. He accuses the current sheriff of patronage and speaks against it in his campaign. He expresses his conservatism against the liberalism of the current sheriff., which includes his position against furloughs and halfway houses. He explains how he got the nickname "Dapper." He explains why he thinks former mayor and governor James Curley is the greatest man that ever lived. Video dropout in the middle of the video.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1978