Comments on: LIES AND COVER-UPS WITHIN THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

By: Michael Devincent

Michael Devincent — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:30:21 +0000

I just spent six years behind the walls and I can tell you from experience get that Outta car is dead on what’s all this denial get off the bandwagon or face the truth about the doc it’s in crisis

By: Mims...

Mims... — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:54:17 +0000

Keep filling up higher security facilities with non-violent offenders and you will have an offender/offenders turning violent. With 2% of the DOC Budget going to inmate programming how can you expect anything less. We are going to see more bloodshed in our prisons due to the lack of programming and MILITANT Correctional Officers thinking they are at war with the ones they are charged to serve & protect..! The DOC Definitely NEEDS OVERSIGHT..

By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:39:41 +0000

This article unlike so meny I’ve read in the past is so true. To reinstate that fact look at the amount of negative feed back I guarantee you that negativity is not coming from construction workers or bank tellers, it’s coming from screws there family’s , administration people who see one side a career.
And the sad fact is corrections for a long time has been less about punishment and more about the business I mean think about it two guys in a cell up the max 126,000 a year half the food is bought at whole sale the other half is donated where all those tax payer dollars going too ? Salarys is the answer cause again they walk the toughest beat in the state yet out of an 8 hour shift at most the screws have a couple hours contact with inmates yet from CO’s perspective there in shawshank or some horror movie, and the sad fact is administration creates the tenision with there non shollant actions , yet run to the media at any chance to add insult to injury , at the end of the day the state owns the prison but the convicts own those homes a ten by ten might not be much to most but to some its all we know. I write from knowledge because I’ve spent a lot of years paying for my mistakes , punishment I deserved , I own that at the same time I know it’s not about corrections or reintegrating guys back into society because %90 of guys return back to prison, and with a volume like that you would think the state would be building more instead of closeing more. At the same time the corrections officers union gets stronger by placeing tidbits of what really takes place behind bars to the public to really show how tough of a job it is , all looking towards that next contract argument to advocate for higher wages and more tax payer dollars, don’t misunderstand me we’re all not innocent and some of us have mutual respect for either side however at the end of the day when push comes to shove I know what side I stand on and will always stand on and so don’t they . Rather then always trying to police learn how to talk to someone and teach , were not all innocent , you all aren’t either.

By: Icallyouout

Icallyouout — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:13:58 +0000

So you pick an choose which post fits your agenda, I notice you just can’t post the truth, sad for you

By: Padriag Collins

Padriag Collins — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:00:18 +0000

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Everything I wrote about can be fact-checked. The DOC needs oversight. That cannot be denied.

By: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Langhorne Clemens — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:01:19 +0000

Nice piece of fiction. Padraig Collins must be the nom de plume for Monsieur Gaskins.

By: Nunya

Nunya — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 04:11:48 +0000

Something I’d like to point out is your based out of Sydney…. so what how are you even a valid source on this matter. You are very biased and based off of your language and why you say you either know an inmate, were and inmate or interviewed an inmate. Valid sources

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:52:21 +0000

Whoever wrote this is highly misinformed. Must of got their information from an ex inmate. What a reliable source. People will write just about anything. How embarrassing!

By: Yours truly

Yours truly — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:56:07 +0000

You should do us all a favor and educate yourself on the topic you write about so you don’t continue to be biased. You continue to sway away from the main topic at hand (SBCC incident) and head towards state funding for DOC. This is poorly written and you should pull the stick out of your ass.

By: Ron Tabb

Ron Tabb — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 17:14:26 +0000

This story is so ignorant.
MASSACHUSETTS D.O.C. treats the inmates very fair. So sorry that this was written from a one side view. HOWEVER if you would like to stay on that side why don’t you find some outer state inmates that are being held here from the interstate compact. THEY WILL tell you how fair they are treated.. Here are the facts .If a police officer asks you to do something you do it that’s the law.In prison If a C.O. asks you to do something you do it.They were asked to lock in and then given a direct order to lock in. In the past there have been similar issues.It’s not the first time they experienced this. The inmates got their showers out 4 at a time but to get that you have to follow the rules. All this story does is justify behavior that is not acceptable.Remember the next time you go into McDonald’s or The 99 restaurants if the person said they were out of something or they had to wait and the customer jumped up and started punching the server .How would you react? Would you say that’s ok because “they shouldn’t have ran out of that. ” Well that’s what this article does .In life it’s called taking responsibility.
A 17 year veteran