The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of expanding recruitment while the workforce continues to confront dangerous ...

After Massachusetts correction officers were seriously injured and attacked by inmates, new data from the Department of Correction sheds light on the "violence and brutality" inside state prisons.

The Massachusetts DOC has updated its substance response policy after a prison guard was exposed to K2 at MCI-Shirley over the summer. (Massachusetts Department of Correction photo) ...

Roxsandra Wright, a former correction officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Shirley, was arrested on Sunday following a joint investigation by the Department of Correction and ...

After inmates assaulted Massachusetts correction officers in a "deeply troubling" attack at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, the officers' union is slamming the Department of Correction for ...

How difficult is it to read in prison? It varies by each Massachusetts facility, advocates say. Some Massachusetts correctional facilities allow hardcovers, while others only accept paperbacks.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction said at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Kevin Michael O'Brien, 72, walked away from Pondville Correctional Facility at 1 Industries Drive in Norfolk.

Massachusetts is looking for a new commissioner of the Department of Correction, following the retirement of Commissioner Carol Mici. She officially retired last week after five years at the helm ...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has announced plans to close the Old Colony Correctional Center, Minimum Security Facility. The minimum security facility is part of the DOC’s ...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction announced on Jan. 24 its plans to close the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord, a medium-security men’s prison, by summer 2024, falling ...

EDITORIAL The taking of Cell 15 aftermath: A brutal assault sets the stage for overdue reforms Massachusetts Correction Department settles a lawsuit brought on behalf of two of its victims. But ...

This still image from surveillance video shows correction officers and inmates involved in a fight at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts, Sept. 18, 2024 ...