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Governor Francis W. Sargent has already rejected any Massachusetts participation in a regional facility for troublesome inmates...
Governor Francis W. Sargent said last week that Massachusetts will not participate in a regional prison. He said, however, that, "special offenders need to be placed in smaller units so that individualized care and treatment can be used to bring about their eventual reintegration into society...
Curran's report, therefore, has already influenced the policy-makers to establish a program for "special offenders." Whether the program is regional or not is only a minor part of the debate. Curran did not even call for Massachusetts to join a regional prison--although Sargent, who evidently had not read the report carefully, did not seem to know...
Conservative members of the Democratic legislature (Sargent is Republican) began to voice opposition to the reform program, though many of them had voted for Chapter 777 before it became an issue. The most vocal was State Senator Francis X. McCann, whose district includes West Cambridge...
After the May 19 riot, Boone had lost all power and the governor would not appoint the superintendents Boone recommended. On June 21, Sargent fired Boone and sent the State Police to take control of Walpole. The civilian observers quit Walpole one week later, after the police had denied them the rights to talk or listen to the prisoners or to gain access to the cell blocks. The observers felt that they had become a factor that legitimized the State Police repression...