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The coronavirus vaccine rollout in Massachusetts moves into the next step of Phase 1 on Monday. The next group includes congregate care settings like group homes, shelters and corrections facilities. “They are deserving of health care,” said jail doctor Alysse Wurcel. “Treating these people who are in jail and preventing COVID in them is going to benefit everyone.” Wurcel is…

Massachusetts will start vaccinating individuals living and working in congregate care facilities and prisons on Monday, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday. The facilities include residential congregate care programs, group homes, residential treatment programs, community-based acute residential treatment programs, clinical stabilization programs, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and veteran shelters. There are about 94,000 individuals who will be eligible to receive…

In prisons around the country, COVID-19 outbreaks have followed transfers of prisoners or prison workers.

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin has reported to a California federal prison to serve her two-month sentence for her part in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam, an official at the facility told NBC News. Loughlin and and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were required to begin serving their prison sentences by Nov. 19. They admitted to paying…

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli have been ordered to begin serving their prison sentences on Nov. 19 for their involvement in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam. Loughlin was ordered to serve two months behind bars while Giannulli was sentenced to five months in August after they admitted to paying $500,000 in…

WNBA star Maya Moore revealed Wednesday that she tied the knot with Jonathan Irons — a man she helped free from prison this year after a judge overturned his conviction.

More than 1,000 tainted cases were tallied in a new nationwide study by the registry that measures the role of government misconduct in wrongful convictions — and how that misconduct falls heaviest on Black exonerees. The study, published Tuesday, examined 2,400 cases from 1989 through February 2019 in which people were absolved of criminal convictions, and it found that 54...

A 77-year-old prison escapee who had been on the run for nearly half a century was captured this week at his home in New Mexico, the FBI said.

Tents were set up in the yard of San Quentin State Prison to treat inmates with COVID-19. At least 1,011 cases of the virus have been reported.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and ‘fixer’ for President Donald Trump, was released two years early from prison over coronavirus concerns. He will serve the remainder of his three-year sentence at home.

The response from the federal Bureau of Prisons to the growing coronavirus crisis in prisons has raised alarm among advocates and lawmakers about whether the agency is doing enough to ensure the safety of the nearly 150,000 inmates serving time in federal facilities.

Dozens of inmates at a Vermont prison have tested positive for coronavirus. The Vermont Department of Corrections said Thursday that it tested all inmates and staff at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Waterbury after learning that one prisoner had tested positive, a case that was announced Wednesday. After the initial round of results, 28 more inmates were found to…

A Vermont prison is on lockdown after its second and third workers tested positive for coronavirus. The Vermont Department of Corrections announced Monday that there were two new cases at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton. On Wednesday, the the department said a worker who was last in the facility on March 25 had tested positive for COVID-19. That…

Field hospitals are the latest phase in the coronvirus crisis in Massachusetts, with a second set to open at the Boston Convention Center. The first is at the DCU Center in Worcester and is expected to be up and running next week.

Efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in prisons has led to a debate.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly a decade into his life sentence for murder, Lydell Grant was escorted out of a Texas prison in November with his hands held high, free on bail, all thanks to DNA re-examined by a software program. “The last nine years, man, I felt like an animal in a cage,” Grant, embracing his mother and brother, told the crush of reporters...

A U.S. citizen who went on a hunger strike and who claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned in Egypt died on Monday after spending six years behind bars, the State Department said.

The state auditor says the Massachusetts prison system is not providing inmates with health care in a timely manner.

Massachusetts’ state prison population dropped 19% over the last four years, leading the state to have the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S., according to a Boston Globe investigation. While the drop in prison population has helped save money, the newspaper also found overtime costs have nearly tripled over the same time period. Last year, correctional officers received $44.68 million…