Prison Guards File Suit on Overcrowding
From Associated Press
BOSTON —
Ten prison guards have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts, charging prison overcrowding is so severe that guards are in danger.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Suffolk Superior Court, charges that inmates in the Concord prison are shoehorned into the paint shop, day rooms, telephone rooms, hospital ward and hallways.
The crowding has made some areas impossible to secure.
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