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MA: MA: Probation Department Corruption Under the Spotlight of the Supreme Judicial Court, the Governor and others

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

3 articles and links Leader: House won't rush to judgment on Probation Department By Michael Levenson, Boston Globe Staff http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/house_leader_no.html?p1=News_links A top House leader signaled today that lawmakers were in no rush to overhaul the troubled Probation Department, in the wake of a devastating report that said the agency is riddled with fraud and ?systemic corruption.? Charles A. Murphy, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he and Speaker Robert A. DeLeo were still reading the report and were not ready to embrace Governor Deval Patrick's demand that they move quickly to transfer control of the agency from the judiciary to the executive branch. ?It?s 337 pages, and we?re going to take our time to go through it,? Murphy told reporters outside DeLeo?s office...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).