Word: jail
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...panel from the state department of public safety yesterday issued a stay allowing the Middlesex Country sheriff to continue holding prisoners at an East Cambridge jail despite the opposition of Cambridge officials and residents...
Earlier this week, a Middlesex superior court judge ordered county officials to remove all the prisoners from the jail. He said that because the jail lacks a sprinkler system, it poses a safety hazard to both the inmates and other occupants of the building...
After hearing several hours of testimony, the panel of three state building inspectors state that they saw "no imminent peril to life," and determined that the prisoners could remain in the jail, located on the 17th through 20th floors of the Middlesex Country Courthouse building in Cambridge, if the country maintains a 24-hour firewatch by hiring guards whose sole duty would be to patrol the halls watching for fires...
Country Officials last week began housing prisoners at the Cambridge jail for the first time since its completion in 1974. A spokesman for the state corrections committee said yesterday that although officials were aware of the fire hazard problem, they had no choice but to bring prisoners to the Cambridge facility because all other nearby jails were already holding prisoners "well above capacity...
...Jaruzelski regime, meanwhile, continued to move against its opponents through its harsh system of military and civil justice. In the longest prison sentence handed out for a martial law violation so far, Ewa Kubasiewicz was given ten years in jail for organizing a strike at a Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity...