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...MCI-Billerica is one of the prisons where Harvard students help prisoners. Many of the 400 inmates at Billerica are serving sentences of up to three years for crimes like breaking and entering, attempted robbery, vehicular homicide, sex offenses, and child abuse...
William Ryder, director of human services at MCI-Billerica, says the average term for prisoners there is about 10 months, with 40 percent of the prisoners getting out in less than 90 days. Issued navy work pants and a light-blue mechanic's shirt, prisoners at Billerica spend 17 to 21 hours a day confined to a space large enough only for a bunk bed, toilet and sink...
Some prisoners on pre-release may end up back in prison as one of 700 inmates in MCI-Concord, where Eric Weaver '86 leads a group of six Harvard tutors. Because Concord is a clearinghouse for most prisoners, it is quite large, but Weaver only deals with the 100 prisoners who comprise the "permanent population." The six undergraduates tutor about 12 prisoners in the library. Because the population is so transitory, Weaver has given up working one on one with specific prisoners week after week...
Female criminals convicted of prostitution, drug dealing, shoplifting, writing bad checks, or assault go to MCI-Framingham, an overcrowded mixed security facility with 300 inmates, and the only prison in the state that incarcerates women...
Unlike other MCI tutoring programs, Ellertson's group helps in a variety of activities, from arts and crafts to registering the women to vote. The tutors lead painting and drawing sessions and discuss women's issues...