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MA: Prisoners to be double bunked due to sentencing/war on drugs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison to double-bunk inmates Sentencing changes urged to ease overcrowding in system Boston Globe By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | November 16, 2008 MILFORD - The number of inmates in Massachusetts prisons is projected to reach about 12,000 next year for the first time, prompting the head of the prison system to call for sentencing changes that ease overcrowding and to proceed with a controversial plan to double-bunk inmates at a maximum-security facility. About two weeks short of his one-year anniversary as commissioner of the Department of Correction, Harold W. Clarke said last week that he hopes Governor Deval Patrick reintroduces legislation to reform "mandatory minimum" sentences, which Clarke said have led to a surge in inmates, many with no history of violence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 16, 2008 (boomark / email).