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MA: Letter from Gordon Haas of the Norfolk Lifers Group to Comm. Harold Clarke on the proposed firing of the chaplains

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

November 25, 2009 Mr. Harold Clarke Commissioner?Department of Correction 50 Maple Street ? Suite 3 Milford MA 01757 Dear Commissioner Clarke, I am much dismayed and shocked by the news that you are laying off/firing prison chaplains. The decision to lay off/fire prison chaplains is, simply, mind-boggling. While I serve as Chairman of the Lifer?s Group Inc. and Majority Camp Chairman of the Inmate Council, both organizations which represent the prisoner population at MCI-Norfolk, I am writing to you on a personal level so that what I state will not serve as a reason for retaliation against either entity. It has long been my belief that the Department of Correction has no clue as to the value prison chaplains have to the orderly running of our institutions...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).