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Delahunt on Walpole prison

Description: Norfolk County district attorney William Delahunt's press conference on hostage taking at Walpole prison. Wide shot of white exterior, inscribed Massachusetts State Prison. Guard tower. Handcuffed man led out of building into state car.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/15/1979

Lifers consider death penalty

Description: Lifers at Norfolk jail say life imprisonment is preferable to capital punishment. They did not consider consequences when they committed murder. Death penalty.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1989

Man of LaMancha at Norfolk prison

Description: Norfolk prisoners put on Man of LaMancha. Actor Richard Kiley advises.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/11/1986

Median strip jail

Description: Prisoners bunked in boiler room of overcrowded Norfolk County House of Correction and exterior of building. New jail to be built on wide median strip of Route 128 in Dedham. Sheriff Clifford Marshall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/05/1988

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

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