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...programs at the other correctional facilities place greater emphasis on actual tutoring. "The major goal is education," says Moeller, who founded and directed the program at Massachusetts Correction Institution (MCI) at Concord...
Last year, Moeller decided to expand the program to include the MCI Concord...
...MCI Concord is a medium security prison that serves as a classification center for newly convicted prisoners. Most of the inmates are merely in transit to one institution or another, but there is a permanent population of about 50 to 60, many of whom work in the furniture shop...
While state law entitles prisoners to legal counsel in institutional proceedings, the state is not required to provide attorneys as in criminal trials. Unable to pay for professional lawyers on their own prisoners at MCI-Concord. Norfolk, Framingham, and Walpole prisons call the program collect to request its assistance...
William J. Tucker, institutional parole officer at MCI Concord, agrees that the project's lawyers are frequently successful in securing favorable action "A law student who can make a persuasive argument can make a difference between a delayed release and a swift release," he says...