Hampden Sheriff Nick Cocchi came to the State House ... This commission aims to make Massachusetts prisons safer, and a ...

Massachusetts' relatively liberal stance on immigration enforcement has put the state at odds with the Trump administration, but there's one notable exception.

In the stark confines of prison walls, a surprising phenomenon: Poetry thrives just as vibrantly here as in high schools or ...

In Massachusetts, inmates in state and county correctional facilities can make unlimited free phone calls under a law that ...

To step inside the Older Adult Re-Entry unit, or OAR, at the Middlesex County, Massachusetts, jail is unlike entering any ...

"You're not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer," Homan told the audience, taking aim at Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, accusing him of releasing ...

“The Bristol County Sheriff’s Office jail is no different ... 21 others win freedom in one month Ex-Massachusetts senator shouldn’t get a lesser sentence just because he’s the ...

Sheriffs want lawmakers to consider reining in unlimited free phone calls at county jails amid bulging costs and heightened demand on correctional officers to monitor those communications.

The two men from Massachusetts were arrested in the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office’s 24th similar bust since January 2024, and the second at the Harmony home.