Department of Correction

An investigation into allegations of inadequate conditions at the Massachusetts Department of Correction has found that the prison system is violating inmates’ constitutional rights, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The two-year investigation, which began in October 2018, looked at mental health care of inmates and whether it led to self-harm or death, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...

Cyntoia Brown, who was given a life sentence for killing a man who picked her up for sex at 16, was released from prison Wednesday after several celebrities pushed for her release.

The Massachusetts prison system has agreed to provide three inmates with medicine to treat their opioid addiction. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts announced Friday it has reached a settlement with the state Department of Correction after filing a federal suit on behalf of the men. The department had previously agreed to continue giving the men their medications while…

A former nurse at a Massachusetts state prisons system facility has been sentenced for distributing drugs to inmates. Federal prosecutors say 40-year-old Julie Inglis-Somers, of Kingston, was sentenced Friday to three years or probation, the first three months of which must be served in home confinement.

Six female correction officers have been indicted amid allegations that women endured invasive body cavity and strip searches when they tried to visit loved ones in jail, horror stories that were unearthed in a series of I-Team reports.

Massachusetts prisons officials have for the first time moved a transgender inmate from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. Court filings show that the 54-year-old inmate, who has lived as a woman and received hormone therapy for decades, was transferred in September from MCI-Norfolk to the state women’s prison in Framingham.

A convicted rapist who was diagnosed with liver cancer is getting another shot at medical parole. Worcester Superior Court Judge J. Gavin Reardon Jr. says in a ruling issued Monday that Benjamin LaGuer’s petition for medical parole must be reconsidered “in light of his recently improved medical condition.”

Officials say an inmate at a state prison has died after being found unresponsive in his cell on Christmas Day. The state Department of Correction said Thursday that a guard found Kevin Boutet in his cell at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole on Tuesday.

A serial child rapist convicted in three states, whose impending release has been stirring outrage after being behind bars for more than four decades, won’t be released from a Massachusetts prison on Wednesday.

A serial child rapist convicted in three states, who has been behind bars for four decades, could be released as soon as Wednesday.

A serial child rapist convicted in three states, who has been behind bars for four decades, could be released as soon as Wednesday.

The city will close one of nine Rikers Island jails in the summer as part of a plan to shut down the troubled jail complex, the mayor announced on Tuesday.

The decision years ago to use dogs in Massachusetts prisons to search visitors for drugs caused uproar among advocates and family members of those behind bars. Now Massachusetts’ highest court is wading into the fight.

Prosecutors on Friday released an excerpt of the letter Aaron Hernandez wrote to his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, before he committed suicide last month.

An independent review ordered by Delaware’s governor after a deadly inmate riot describes the state’s maximum-security prison as dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed. According to the preliminary report, prison workers consider communication to be the top problem at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. The report released Friday portrays stressed-out correctional officers as not knowing what is...

NBC Boston Investigators have obtained seven handwritten letters from the Department of Correction where Aaron Hernandez requested to live with certain cellmates and apparently addressed rumors that dated back to 2015.

In the wake of the release of seven new handwritten letters by Aaron Hernandez, the deceased inmate made living arrangement requests and addressed rumors.

A new report says spending on Massachusetts prisons and jails is soaring even as overall inmate populations continue to decline.

After a public records request, NBC Boston obtained more than 100 pages of documents, showing everything from what music he downloaded to conversations he had with inmates before his suicide.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants to shut the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex.