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: Charles Stuart's body is pulled from Mystic River, lending a new perspective to the murder of his wife. Press conferences with Newman Flanagan and Ray Flynn. Unusual views of Tobin Bridge. Footage of wrongly accused suspect, Willie Bennett. Interviews with black Mission Hill residents.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1990
Description: On fifth anniversary of Chernobyl explosion, commemoration brings attention to grave illnesses caused by radiation+spreading contamination. Little boy from evacuation zone being treated in Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1991
Description: Zulu Chief Mangosothu Buthelezi gets honorary LLD from John Silber at BU amid protests.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/17/1986
Description: CHILDREN READING IN LIBRARY, BOOKS, STACKS, AUTHOR ROBERT CORMIER AT FANEUIL HALL
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/20/1986
Description: Show of Chinese wares from Gwangdung (Canton province) at Boston World Trade Center to promote commerce. Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy. Economic Affairs Secretary Joseph Alviani.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1987
Description: Chinese students at BU send a petition to their native country, allying themselves with the demonstrations for democracy at home.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/05/1989