Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the state prison in Norfolk, a plaque honors James Souza and Alfred Baranowski. James R. Souza and Alfred J. Baranowski were ...

The union representing Massachusetts correction officers is asking for tactical teams to search the state's maximum security prison after an attack injured officers Wednesday night. An unidentified ...

A group of incarcerated men at Massachusetts' maximum security prison told state officials in a letter last week that some prisoners were staging a hunger strike over conditions in a special unit of ...

A group of state legislators has called on Gov. Maura Healey to take action to secure the state’s prisons in the wake of an attack that injured five correction officers at the Souza-Baranowski ...

LANCASTER, MASS. (WHDH) - One of three inmates charged in connection with an attack on guards at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster last month faced a judge Thursday, pleading not ...

When Massachusetts lawmakers passed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill in 2018, advocates and state officials hailed it as a significant accomplishment. But one legislator who helped draft the ...

A federal judge has approved a class action lawsuit on behalf of 150 inmates at the state’s maximum-security prison who allege they were brutalized by Department of Correction personnel in retaliation ...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit related to events that occurred in early 2020 at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.Souza-Baranowski is the ...

A male inmate died at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center earlier this month, the latest of several recent deaths in Department of Correction custody. The man died Oct. 3 following a medical ...

Two correction officers were stabbed by inmates at Souza Baranowski Correctional Center Wednesday evening, according to the state’s Department of Correction. Three other correction officers were ...