Please see and spread far and wide my update on Old Colony Correctional Center here. It is titled A STATE REP GOES TO SPEAK WITH MEN INCARCERATED AT OLD COLONY and begins:

“It’s the ‘repeated refrain’ of people incarcerated at Old Colony Correctional Center (OCCC) in Bridgewater: ‘There just [isn’t] enough mental health care.’

So wrote Mass state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa in an email to me after she visited OCCC on June 3, a visit spurred by this reporter’s article detailing the disastrous year of suicide attempts, self-harm, and COVID at the institution.” MORE