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David K. Chivers, a shaggy-headed delegate from Lee and a member of the state committee, wiped the perspiration from his brow and refastened the Pierce button to his red suspenders. He had just finished tabulating the delegate vote from the Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire senate district. Weld won the district by nine votes, but Chivers was excited anyway...
There is a polling request for the Suffolk and Middlesex district... That has not been challenged. First Suffolk Norfolk, microphone 18. Hampden and Hampshire, microphone seven...
...Hampden County distraught officials decided in 1988 to adopt emergency release practices. Jailers like Michael Ashe were not enthusiastic. Criminals' walking free so early, Ashe believed, undermined prison management. "This is not the Vienna Choir Boys," he often complained to judges. Highly regarded for his frank and even manner, Ashe is a former social worker who has instituted reforms such as drug programs and data reporting at Hampden. Inside the prison, early release was mockingly referred to as "unearned good time," as opposed to the traditional time off earned for good behavior. Street criminals figured that the odds had shifted...
...brick Hampden jail is a microcosm of the nation's correctional crisis. Constructed when Grover Cleveland was President, it handles offenders with sentences of up to 30 months, many of them for violent crimes. For years Massachusetts prisons have been among the most overcrowded in the country, recently housing 15,000 inmates in space built for 10,000. New facilities lag far behind demand. In 1989 alone, the number of Massachusetts inmates increased by 820. Simply to stay even, the state would have to construct a new large facility every year, an impossible objective. Since 1983 Massachusetts has committed...
...public schools now approach the national average. The range of achievement remains stunningly wide: the high school has gifted students and functional illiterates. Prince Edward High's debating and forensics teams are state champions. The yearbook, slick, lively and professional, wins awards. Some students go to nearby Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood College for advanced courses. School Superintendent James M. Anderson Jr. and his teachers have accomplished an academic resurrection...