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By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The reform-proof prison Boston Phoenix Troubled Over Bridgewater: Old Colony Correctional Center has been plagued by suicide, overcrowding, and brutality ? and things are only getting worse By CHRIS FARAONE | September 8, 2010 http://thePhoenix.com/Boston/news/108081-troubled-over-bridgewater/ On a winter evening around 11 pm, the former superintendent of Old Colony Correctional Center walked into a Rhode Island restaurant with a gun in his pocket. Paul Murphy made his way through the dining room to the table where his recently estranged wife, Joan, was sitting with some friends. He sat down at the table and pointed the gun at her face. "I love you," he said. Then he squeezed the trigger. He shot his wife in the hand and neck, injuries she would survive...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).