Word: jail
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Located on the top floors of the Middlesex County Courthouse, the jail has been operating since February As of yesterday, the county was housing 74 prisoners at the facility...
East Cantabrigians have strongly opposed the development of the facility since plans for the jail were announced two years ago charging that it would threaten public safety in the area and clog parking...
When the county transferred 37 prisoners to the jail in February, neighborhood residents won a Superior Court injunction on further transfers, citing an inadequate fire prevention system as a hazard to the inmates and the 200 employees in the other parts of the courthouse...
...prisoners will be transferred from the county's only other jail in Billerica but Cegelis said the facility's full capacity will not be reached for at least several weeks...
Neighborhood leaders said yesterday that there is little that residents can do to prevent the jail's full operation "At this point," said Frank Budryk of the East Cambridge Planning Team, "we're practically throwing our hands...