tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12823721173077986312024-03-13T07:44:30.789-07:00State of the PrisonsAfter a high-profile escape from a minimum-security prison, I spent time in the state's minimum-, medium-, and maximum-security prisons to describe what life was like behind bars. Other stories about prisons as well.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282372117307798631.post-21609165739643395042017-07-13T13:59:00.002-07:002017-07-13T13:59:59.891-07:00Dirty Water<header style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #464646; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;"><div class="header new" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Many serving long sentences at MCI-Norfolk worry about the water quality.</div>
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NORFOLK — In 2011, after years of inmate complaints about the tea-colored water and long-term problems with aging tanks and wells, the state’s largest prison suffered an unprecedented failure to its water supply.</div>
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Toilets wouldn’t flush. Showers wouldn’t run. Behind the 19-foot concrete walls of MCI-Norfolk, the taps ran dry.</div>
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The massive water failure, blamed on excessive sediment coursing through old pipes, led the state Department of Environmental Protection to fine the nearly century-old prison thousands of dollars and order the Department of Correction to install an expensive new water-treatment system.</div>
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Six years later, the state has still not built the new system, and inmates, their advocates, and environmental scientists worry that the drinking water is unsafe.</div>
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A Globe review of state records found that 43 percent of all water samples collected at MCI-Norfolk since 2011 showed elevated levels of manganese, a prime component of the sediment from the wells. The naturally occurring mineral, found in many foods, can be dangerous when ingested at heightened levels for prolonged periods, potentially leading to tremors, slowed speech, and other neurological disorders that resemble Parkinson’s disease.</div>
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With nearly half of MCI-Norfolk’s roughly 1,500 inmates serving life sentences — more lifers than in any other state prison — many worry about their extended exposure to the water, and some blame it for their health problems.</div>
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Prisoners have also complained that adequate water supplies are lacking, even now, and that they endure strict limits on how much they can use.</div>
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In December, the Norfolk Inmate Council, which represents prisoners, reported that nearly two-thirds of inmates responding to a survey said they had suffered rashes and other skin problems. Nearly half complained of intestinal issues, and others had respiratory and vision problems, the council said.</div>
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While its report didn’t provide any evidence linking the water quality to the inmates’ health complaints, the council called the persistent water problems “troubling.”</div>
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In the report, inmates said the water is regularly brown, and that filters in the communal sinks of housing units are routinely clogged with sediment. Because water samples are collected from the source rather than the tap, the tests could be missing lead and other sediment from corroded pipes, inmates said.</div>
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The report also found that few inmates could afford to buy bottled water. The prison sells 16-ounce bottles for 65 cents, about one-third of an inmate’s average daily wage, earned for work in the prison.</div>
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Most infuriating to the inmates, the prison allegedly provided jugs of bottled water to the dogs that live in the prison and are trained by inmates to become service providers for the disabled.</div>
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“Dogs are provided bottled water, but the human inmates are not,” the report stated. “This creates . . . a strong distrust of the [prison] administrators’ stance on any and all water/health related issues.”</div>
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A Globe review found that 43 percent of all water samples collected at the prison since 2011 showed elevated levels of manganese.</div>
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State environmental officials denied many of the inmates’ allegations and insisted the prison’s water is safe.</div>
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Asked about the elevated levels of manganese, Peter Lorenz, a spokesman for the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs said, “More than half the water samples are within compliance.”</div>
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In an e-mail, Department of Environmental Protection officials said the prison was in “compliance with MassDEP requirements for addressing this type of issue.”</div>
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The prison aims to follow the US Environmental Protection Agency’s health advisory for manganese, which recommends that people drink water with levels below 0.3 milligrams per liter over their lifetime. Since the state began testing for manganese at MCI-Norfolk in 2008, 38 percent of the samples have reached or exceeded that threshold.</div>
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“With most of the water values below the advisory level, any risk of adverse effects are minimal,” said Ed Coletta, a DEP spokesman. “MCI-Norfolk continues to meet all of the . . . primary drinking water standards, and . . . all required upgrades to the MCI-Norfolk water system are being implemented.”</div>
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But environmental scientists say that prisoners have legitimate cause for concern.</div>
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Bob Bentley, the lab director at the Analytical Balance Corp. in Middleborough, which has been testing MCI-Norfolk’s water the past five years, said the risks of manganese have only become apparent to health researchers in recent years.</div>
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“I think it is a concern,” he said of the samples, which the prison collects and provides to him in special bottles. “I hope someone is working on cleaning it up.”</div>
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Others noted that researchers could find that manganese is harmful at lower levels, as they have concluded about lead, mercury, and other environmental toxins.</div>
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“There is very little that has become more safe when we have taken a closer look at it,” said Wendy Heiger-Bernays, an associate professor of environmental health at Boston University. “It is more than likely that the allowable levels of manganese in water will decrease as we learn more about its effects on the brain.”</div>
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Birgit Claus Henn, a Boston University epidemiologist who has spent years studying the impact of manganese on people, said the water system should have been repaired if even 10 percent of samples showed elevated levels of the mineral. She pointed to recent studies showing that manganese, even at low levels, can contribute to poor academic performance, diminished verbal function, and other cognitive problems, she said.</div>
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“Given that these individuals are chronically exposed, and they aren’t given a choice and can’t seek an alternate source for their water, I would be concerned that this population isn’t adequately protected,” Claus Henn said.</div>
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Prisoners are also potentially more susceptible to the harmful effects of manganese, because many of them have struggled with addictions and other health issues. Liver problems and other metabolic issues, for example, impair the body’s ability to absorb and excrete manganese, she said.</div>
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“Clean drinking water is a basic right,” Claus Henn said. “If the state isn’t meeting that 40 percent of the time, that’s a problem.”</div>
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State public health officials, after learning from the Globe that many of the prison’s water samples had elevated levels of manganese, said they would consider reviewing the inmates’ concerns.</div>
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“It’s certainly worth looking at,” said Marc Nascarella, director of the environmental toxicology program at the state Department of Public Health. “Is it a concern that individuals who are incarcerated don’t have access to clean, fresh water? Yes.”</div>
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Yet he cautioned against automatically linking elevated levels with health problems.</div>
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“Much more analysis is needed,” he said. “I don’t want to introduce fear into that community where it isn’t warranted.”</div>
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Senior administrators at MCI-Norfolk declined to answer questions. They also denied for months a Globe request to interview inmates, tour the prison, or collect water samples to have them tested independently.</div>
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State records show that the prison has repeatedly failed to meet deadlines for replacing its water treatment facility. It has received four extensions since the Department of Environmental Protection ordered it to build a new system in 2012.</div>
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The state finally broke ground on the project last year, Department of Correction officials said. The prison is required to complete it by next spring.</div>
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The new plant “will have the ability to filter out iron and manganese and should minimize any discolored water in the future,” Christopher Fallon, a spokesman for the Department of Correction, wrote in an e-mail. “The new plant will also allow the DOC the ability to bring additional well water online.”</div>
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Fallon said the prison has adhered to federal and state guidelines for contaminants in water and believes the water is safe to drink. Discolored water isn’t exclusive to MCI-Norfolk, he noted. Wells throughout New England can yield discolored water when they run low and contain higher concentrations of manganese or iron.</div>
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“Although it can be aesthetically unpleasing, it is not harmful,” he wrote.</div>
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MCI-Norfolk also now has a contract to purchase water from the town to maintain water pressure when the prison’s wells run low, Fallon said.</div>
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When the water turns dark, the prison provides filtered water, he said. He denied the allegation that the prison gives bottled water to the dogs in the training program.</div>
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“In fact, the dogs live with the inmate handlers and are provided food and water by the inmate handlers,” he wrote.</div>
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Fallon defended the delays to the treatment system, saying all the bids initially exceeded the department’s budget for the work and that led to a series of contract delays.</div>
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Fallon declined to respond to other allegations by the inmates.</div>
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State environmental officials insisted the prison’s water is safe.</div>
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On a recent afternoon, officials at MCI-Norfolk allowed a Globe reporter to meet one inmate during regular visiting hours, as nearly anyone from the public would be allowed to do, but would not allow the reporter to bring a notebook or record the conversation.</div>
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Behind the forbidding walls and razor wire, Timothy Muise, one of several inmates who had written to the Globe about the issue, said the water has gotten worse since he came to the prison in 2007.</div>
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A former longshoreman from Gloucester serving 18 years for manslaughter, Muise, 53, said he felt free to speak about the problem, in part because he’s scheduled to complete his sentence next month. Others risked being punished by guards for talking to a reporter, he said.</div>
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“We have never been given clean water while I have been housed here,” he wrote in a letter to the reporter. “You can feel your insides churn when you drink the water.”</div>
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He also accused prison administrators of “lying” about not providing the dogs bottled water, which he said he confirmed with the dogs’ handlers. He said they stopped the practice when the Globe began asking questions.</div>
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In the prison’s visiting room, Muise said the water in his cell sometimes comes out black and is nearly always brown. He lets it run for a minute before using it to brush his teeth, wash his face, or drink, hoping to flush out some of the sediment.</div>
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“It’s disgusting,” he said. “No one here thinks it’s safe.”</div>
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In a letter to the Globe, another inmate, Wayland Coleman, the elected cochairman of the Norfolk Inmate Council, said the water has looked like “black tea” since last November and “smells horribly.”</div>
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Coleman, 39, who’s serving a life sentence for murder, worries about the long-term impact of the water. He said prison officials in February placed him in solitary confinement for a month after he mailed the council’s report to the Globe, and later stripped him of his position on the council.</div>
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Fallon said he couldn’t respond to Coleman’s allegations, without a waiver signed by the inmate.</div>
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A few weeks ago, Coleman said, he was drying himself off after a shower and noticed that his towel looked as if it “was used to wipe dirt off the floor.”</div>
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“I don’t know exactly what is in this water, but I do know that it is in my hair, eyes, nose, and skin,” he wrote. “I ingest it, and with each swallow, I fear for my long-term health.”</div>
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Unlike two other state prisons in the distance, where razor wire tops tall fences and guards lurk in lookout towers, the only physical barriers preventing more than 300 prisoners from disappearing into the thicket of trees or hopping into a getaway car are scattered signs warning that going beyond is “out of bounds.’’</div>
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“It would be easy to escape,’’ said Edwin Guadalupe, 31, who is serving a five-year sentence at the minimum-security section of MCI-Shirley, where some inmates spend years before wrapping up sentences for crimes as serious as second-degree murder.</div>
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But it wasn’t until a gang-connected inmate, Tamik Kirkland, escaped and allegedly went on a shooting spree inside a Springfield barbershop last April, leaving one man dead, that the full risk of minimum-security prisons became clear.</div>
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The escape has raised questions about whether inmates such as Kirkland, an aspiring rapper serving a 2 1/2-to-4-year sentence on gun charges related to a 2008 murder attempt, should be housed in a prison without walls. At a minimum, many questioned why it was so easy for Kirkland to slip out an unbarred window and into the night undetected.</div>
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Few are more angry about Kirkland’s escape than fellow inmates at MCI-Shirley, many of whom feel they are paying for his crimes with new security measures, such as bars on some of the windows.</div>
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“If he wasn’t able to walk away so easily, that violence would have never taken place,’’ said Sergeant John Delaney of the Springfield Police Department. “It would have saved the city of Springfield a lot of heartache.’’</div>
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All but two of the 73 prisoners who have escaped from Massachusetts prisons since 2000 have come from similar facilities that lack fences or walls around the perimeter, even though they hold fewer than 15 percent of all state inmates. Twenty escapees remain at large, and at least four others were accused of new crimes while they were free, Department of Correction records show.</div>
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Yet, defenders of minimum-security prisons say the Springfield killing should not overshadow the value of these facilities as training grounds for life after prison. Research shows that inmates released from minimum security are less likely to commit future crimes than those released from higher-security prisons. If anything, prisoner advocates say Massachusetts should make more use of minimum-security prisons.</div>
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“You have to accept some risk when preparing prisoners for reentry,’’ said Leslie Walker, executive director of the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, a nonprofit prisoners’ rights group. “It’s just like surgery. The risk you may die from an operation may be infinitesimal, but the risk is still there. To have the public assume that there’s absolutely no risk is inaccurate. We don’t want to give people a false sense of security.’’</div>
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Few are more angry about Kirkland’s escape than fellow inmates at MCI-Shirley, many of whom feel they are paying for his crimes with new security measures, such as bars on some of the windows. Dozens of interviews with inmates during a rare three-day visit to state prisons over the summer suggest they value the relative freedom of minimum security and worry about losing it.</div>
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For prisoners such as Guadalupe, who was sentenced three years ago for illegally possessing a gun and lived in the same dormitory as Kirkland, there’s a significant difference between living at MCI-Shirley and at the medium-security prison in Concord where he started his sentence. There are fewer fights, more freedom of movement, and the opportunity to leave prison grounds to mow lawns, paint walls, or do other jobs on a supervised work crew, all of which earn inmates time off their sentences.</div>
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To leave his dorm, all the father from Lawrence has to do is sign out at the front desk. The cover of the surrounding foliage and the fast-moving traffic of Route 2 are tantalizingly close. If he wanted, he could slip away unnoticed, even in the light of day.</div>
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But like many prisoners, he said it would make little sense to flee now, so close to finishing his sentence, especially when a failed escape can tack on up to 10 more years in prison.</div>
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Sitting on the bunk bed of his dorm room, where he can see both the road that would take him home and the imposing fences around the medium- and maximum-security prisons at the bottom of the hill, Guadalupe said he was mystified by Kirkland’s decision.</div>
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“Who wants to have to run for the rest or your life?’’ he said. “At this point, I don’t see the point in walking away.’’</div>
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Christian Roche, 32, a former drug dealer from Holyoke who has spent more than five years in prison, said he couldn’t understand why anyone would escape while so close to wrapping up their sentence. “Why would I run now?’’ he said. “We’re on our way.’’</div>
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The shooting at the Springfield barbershop - an apparent act of revenge in which Kirkland, 25, allegedly wounded a barber at Bill Brown’s Beauty, Barbershop and Supply and killed a young father in the barber’s chair before being seriously wounded in a shootout with police - rekindled a debate over prison security dating to at least 1988.</div>
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During the presidential campaign that year, Vice President George H.W. Bush lambasted Governor Michael Dukakis for a weekend furlough program that allowed Willie Horton, a convicted murderer sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, to escape and rape a woman in Maryland.</div>
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In the years since, Massachusetts has throttled back on programs that could be seen as overly generous to prisoners. Not only is the furlough program gone, but the percentage of Massachusetts inmates sent to minimum-security prisons has plummeted to less than half the national average, as the state has toughened the requirements for inmates to qualify.</div>
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Today, prisoners are not eligible for minimum-security prisons until they are within four years of the end of their sentence, a limit adopted in 2006, and they have to behave. If they are disciplined for violent or unruly behavior, the inmates may be sent back to a higher-security institution. Sex offenders, first-degree murderers, and those with outstanding legal issues are ineligible.</div>
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Still, Department of Correction officials say they prefer to move inmates into lower-security prisons if possible, because inmates are less likely to return if they make the transition to society from lower-security prisons. In addition, minimum security only costs the state $38,000 a year per inmate, nearly 30 percent less than maximum security.</div>
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The idea is that lower-security prisons, especially those like Shirley that lack a walled perimeter, offer inmates a taste of freedom and a test of responsibility.</div>
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The most recent data available show that 57 percent of inmates who leave a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts return in three years, compared with 37 percent of those exiting a minimum-security prison or prerelease facility.</div>
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But as of this spring, little more than 13 percent of Massachusetts’ nearly 11,500 inmates were in minimum-security or prerelease facilities, down from 23 percent in 1988.</div>
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Nationally, by comparison, 35 to 40 percent of inmates are in minimum-security prisons, according to the US Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections.</div>
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Walker, of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, argues that the state’s limits on the use of minimum-security prisons has a measurable impact: a growing number of inmates walk out of medium- and maximum-security prisons with little preparation for civilian life and no parole or probation officer to keep an eye on them. Last year, nearly 1,800 prisoners were released from medium or maximum security to the streets, a significant number with no post-prison supervision.</div>
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And the number of inmates leaving prison unsupervised is likely to increase as parole becomes harder to obtain, due to a state crackdown on eligibility. The state Parole Board sharply limited supervised release of inmates after Dominic Cinelli shot officer John Maguire of Woburn in the middle of a robbery last December. Since then, the state has approved only 35 percent of parole requests through summer this year, compared to 58 percent the year before.</div>
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David C. Fathi, director of the ACLU National Prison Project in Washington, said years of evidence shows more eligible prisoners should be sent to lower-security facilities.</div>
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“We know that stepping prisoners down progressively and allowing them to have more responsibility works,’’ he said. “More prisoners in medium and maximum mean more prisoners released directly from medium and maximum prisons, and everything we know shows that that’s bad for public safety.’’</div>
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But given the unpredictability and volatility of some inmates, the state should be wary of permitting too many inmates in lower-security prisons, especially inmates such as Tamik Kirkland with a history of violent behavior, said Francis Bloom, a Wilbraham lawyer representing Darryl King, the barber who survived shots that Kirkland allegedly fired in Springfield.</div>
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Kirkland, who had been in prison for weapons offenses stemming from a 2008 shooting in Springfield, had also been incarcerated in 2003 after being convicted of selling cocaine and illegally carrying firearms. He escaped in April after learning that his mother, Victoria Davis, had been grazed by bullets in an apparent attempt to kill her, and he was allegedly seeking revenge.</div>
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“Unless it’s just drunk drivers or those without a history of violence, they ought to have a fence, or some other sort of perimeter security,’’ Bloom said.</div>
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Sergeant Delaney of the Springfield Police Department said there also should be better coordination about prisoners between police and correction officers. He said officials at MCI-Shirley initially blamed police for not alerting them that Kirkland’s mother had been shot shortly before he escaped, information prison officials said would have prompted them to move Kirkland to a more secure facility.</div>
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But Delaney said they had no easy way of making the connection, given that mother and son had different last names. “We don’t have a questionnaire to use to ask victims if they know someone in prison,’’ he said. “It’s not something we do. Almost everyone we have contact with has someone they know in prison.’’</div>
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State Representative Jennifer Benson, who represents Shirley, said she has urged the state to ensure they have enough officers on duty at all times and to alert the public as quickly as possible about any future escapes.</div>
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“It was very concerning that [Kirkland] could walk away and commit the crimes he did,’’ she said. “These issues continue to weigh on me.’’</div>
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On the stately grounds of the MCI-Shirley minimum-security prison, which still has some brick buildings from the days when it was a Shaker village, the only real barrier to an inmate running for the woods is his own choice.</div>
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Not only are there no fences around the perimeter, but there are usually at most 16 correction officers during a day shift and 10 at night, looking after about 320 inmates. And many prisoners leave the grounds to rake leaves or do other jobs.</div>
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One morning in June, Captain Richard Tremblay watched a crew in orange shirts push lawn mowers through a cemetery in Lancaster. He said correction officers must keep a log to account for the inmates’ whereabouts once an hour.</div>
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If an inmate runs, he said, they are not authorized to chase them. The protocol is for the correction officer to call police, round up the other inmates, and take them back to the prison immediately.</div>
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In addition to facing more time in prison, state prisoners caught after escaping are also sent back to higher-security prisons and may be required to stay for a time in a segregation unit, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.</div>
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Of the 20 inmates who escaped in the past three years, 19 have been arrested, all within four months, Department of Correction officials said. Four of those fugitives, including Kirkland, were charged with new crimes while on escape, though the charges were dismissed against two of them. Correction officials could not say whether the others had committed crimes while they were at large.</div>
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But those cleared for community work crews must have first held a job inside the prison, and they rarely cause problems. “These guys aren’t looking for trouble,’’ Tremblay said.</div>
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Eligible for parole in two years, Maurice Williams, 49, who was serving up to 12 years for armed robbery, said he wants to get out the right way. By working on a crew, he earns $3 a day and five days per month off his sentence. “I’m just trying to go home,’’ he said. “I don’t want to have to look over my shoulder the rest of my life.’’</div>
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Still, for most prisoners near the end of their sentence, the relative freedoms of minimum security offer a path to acclimate to society, providing practice holding a job, overcoming temptations, and learning to live with greater independence, which is why many were livid when Kirkland disappeared and allegedly went on his shooting spree.</div>
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Three months after the escape, department officials were using cranes to mount large grates to cover the windows in the old building that Kirkland fled. They installed new lighting, alarms, and motion-detection devices to make it less likely that someone could exit the dorms at night. And they said they had heightened covert surveillance.</div>
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“Our security procedures are sound,’’ said Scott Anderson, the acting superintendent of MCI-Shirley, adding there was no plan to build a fence around the prison. “It’s difficult to predict all human behavior, but we have put thousands through this, and they’re evaluated and assessed at every step. If we have concerns, we bring them back to higher security.’’</div>
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The new atmosphere at the minimum-security prison has disturbed inmates such as Gerald Fitzpatrick, 39, who was serving up to nine years for armed robbery. He lived in the same dorm as Kirkland - who is now at the nearby Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison in Shirley - and said every inmate there has been affected by the escape.</div>
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“It feels like we’re all being held responsible because of his nonsensical decision,’’ he said. “It put us all in jeopardy. We’re just trying to do our time and go home.’’</div>
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The shower floors are scarred from the blades of sharpened shanks. There are no televisions, radios, or hotpots allowed, and no access to the canteen. Pay phones on wheels are rolled to cells for brief calls, and some prisoners play chess by calling out their moves on separate boards in separate cells, where prisoners are required to spend 23 hours a day.</div>
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Pedro Tapia, 30, of Hyde Park, who was serving up to 15 years for armed robbery, was in the segregation unit – or hole – at MCI-Shirley medium-security prison for his third time after being accused of verbally assaulting a staff member.</div>
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“Everything is hard about being in here; you have to be mentally strong,” he said while in a cage-like outdoor space for his hour of fresh air. “I read so much that my eyes start to twitch to the point that tears come out.”</div>
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Unlike at minimum-security prisons, where inmates have much more freedom and are on a glide path to release, the vast majority of the state’s 11,500 prisoners live in a world bounded by monotony, violence, and strict routines, where barred doors and barbed wire etch the horizon and the purpose is punishment.</div>
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My visit to the hole was one stop on a three-day tour of the state’s prison system, including a period during which, with my permission, the state Department of Correction stripped me of my regular clothes and locked me in chains, to let me experience incarceration in a more personal, first-hand way. (Everyone interviewed knew I was a journalist.)</div>
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Over three days, I saw from an inmate’s perspective the stark difference between the bleak, highly controlled world of medium and maximum security -- from which no one has escaped since 1990 -- compared to the relative freedom of minimum-security prisons.</div>
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Our journey began at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole, a former maximum-security prison surrounded by 20-foot-high walls, eight observation towers, and five strands of electrical wire that has become the gateway to prison life in Massachusetts. Most inmates stay in this sprawling 56-year-old facility, which smells like formaldehyde on hot days, for two to four months while awaiting a permanent assignment.</div>
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New inmates are strip searched – with every orifice checked – scanned for metal objects and other contraband, fingerprinted, and given starchy gray scrubs, ill-fitting canvas shoes without laces, and a paper bag with essentials, including a dull razor, seven pairs of underwear, and a special pen designed so it can’t be used as a weapon. Any possessions, including their street clothes, are either destroyed or mailed home.</div>
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Correction officers and other staff check newbies for gang symbols, conduct medical and psychological evaluations, and advise them that bad behavior could affect whether they are classified to a maximum-security prison or a lower-security facility.</div>
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Cedar Junction is far less tense since it became a reception center in 2009 and assaults against other prisoners and staff have dropped more than 50 percent. Still, many of the 800 prisoners -- 300 more than it was designed for -- are on edge, especially when it’s hot. The food is marginally edible and most live in cramped cells with another prisoner, sharing a toilet and standing for six inmate counts a day.</div>
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“The yard is despicable, they don’t allow you anything to cook with, and nobody can get on the phone, because there are only three,” said Keith Cousin, 24, of Dorchester, who was convicted of illegally possessing a gun in June.</div>
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As he sat in his cell on a sweltering summer day, he said he was adapting to life behind bars. “It’s a very, very depressing place to be,” he said. “But I understand this isn’t a hotel.”</div>
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My department guides told me to remove my street clothes – sparing me the strip search – and don the polyester gray scrubs and shoes, which felt like vices on my feet. Then, they locked my ankles and wrists in double locked cuffs, with my hands linked to a waist chain to limit mobility.</div>
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That’s how I dressed for my visit to a holding cell at Cedar Junction, a sallow, fluorescent-lighted space with concrete walls and steel bars, where they served a lunch of what they described as “seafood surprise,” with something that loosely resembled apple pudding in a Styrofoam cup. I could muster only a few nibbles.</div>
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Afterward, they escorted me to a waiting transport van, a jaunt that made me appreciate the pain of moving too quickly in ankle cuffs. They locked me in a backseat with little legroom, behind grated windows, with doors that don’t unlock from the inside, and drove us to Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison in Shirley.</div>
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No one has ever escaped from Souza-Baranowski, the state’s newest prison, which is not surprising, given all the special fences, motion-detection sensors, nine guard towers, and 372 cameras recording 24 hours a day. Just to get inside, we had to go through two separate gates and the driver had to step out of the van to show guards he isn’t being held hostage.</div>
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It was there, waiting between the two gates, that the guards decided I should change back to street clothes. Even though everyone had been told that a reporter was in the vehicle, guards were still startled when I climbed out of the van to stretch.</div>
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Prisoners are not supposed to exit the vehicle, I learned.</div>
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Upon arrival, new inmates must go through another full strip search -- inmates have been found hiding razors and paper clips beneath their tongue and cell phones and lighters in their rectum. They are allowed televisions, typewriters, fans, and portable radios, but they all have to be a specially designed see-through, tamper-resistant brand only available through the prison’s canteen.</div>
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For better-behaved prisoners, the next step may be a short trip down the hill to MCI-Shirley’s medium-security prison, which like Souza-Baranowski is surrounded by a double ring of tall fences and microwave detection devices.</div>
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At orientation, new prisoners learn the rules: Sneakers must be all white to avoid gang colors. Windows of cells can’t be covered. Pictures of families are allowed but naked women aren’t. They have to stand for count four times a day and obey directions from correction officers.</div>
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They also learn about the greater number of programs available in medium security: Some prisoners study to be line cooks and others to become barbers. They have more free time, too, to play board games, cards, and rap with other inmates.</div>
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In the chow hall, a tinderbox where sitting in the wrong place can be a provocation, there are separate tables where Latin Kings, Boston and Springfield gangs, Muslims, and sex offenders, among others, segregate themselves.</div>
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When I arrived with a photographer at the medium-security prison, our presence seemed to be known by every inmate within moments of our arrival. Inmates were eager to talk to us, and we interviewed whomever we chose – aging brothers serving a life sentence for a joint-venture murder, a repentant father of four convicted of dealing drugs, a couple during visiting hours who described how they maintained a relationship through his three decades in prison.</div>
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Our escorts refused to allow us to interview just one inmate, a prisoner who said he had been in the same dorm room as Tamik Kirkland, who had escaped from the nearby minimum-security prison a few months before and allegedly shot a man to death. They claimed it was for legal reasons.</div>
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Among the inmates we met in medium security was Joseph Labriola, 66, one of the few who succeeded in escaping from a Massachusetts prison. A decade after he was incarcerated for killing a drug dealer in 1973, he spent 93 days on the lam, before the FBI captured him living with a stripper in Nevada.</div>
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He impressed upon us the deprivation and danger of life behind bars, the monotony of the constant routine, and the sense that many inmates, despite their anger, appreciated why they were there and the need for their punishment.</div>
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But if he could, Labriola insisted, he would run again.</div>
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“I would rather be outside that fence and die in a snowstorm than die in this prison warm,” he said.</div>
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Until the last days of his life, half of which he spent behind bars for killing a police officer, William “Lefty’’ Gilday insisted he never pulled the trigger.</div>
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Among the state’s most notorious criminals, Gilday led hundreds of police officers on a bullet-filled chase over a week in 1970, the largest manhunt in New England history.</div>
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He remained unapologetic until an interview in June, his last before he died last Saturday in a Boston hospital. At 82 and suffering from an advancing case of Parkinson’s disease, Gilday finally acknowledged responsibility for the slaying four decades ago of Boston patrolman Walter Schroeder, after whom the city named its police headquarters.</div>
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“I’m very much concerned about my failure to render a condolence,’’ he said during a Globe interview in a locked hospital room at a medium-security prison in Shirley. He also said he wanted to address one of the patrolman’s daughters: “I’m terribly sorry that her father got shot, and that on behalf of myself and other people concerned, I would ask them to accept my heartfelt condolences.’’</div>
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After spending the day curled up on the starchy sheets of a bed in the health unit of MCI-Shirley, the balding inmate sat up, straightened his pajamas, and donned a pair of thick prison-issued glasses. His words were labored, his hearing fading, his hands shaking as he recalled the day that led to his final arrest, after years of other crimes.</div>
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Still, he had a lucid memory of the morning of Sept. 23, 1970, when he helped a radical group from the Weather Underground rob a Brighton branch of the State Street Bank and Trust Co.</div>
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“I wish we never would have gone to the bank that day,’’ he said of the group’s failed effort to finance their movement against the Vietnam War.</div>
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He recalled the dismal haul - $26,585 - and the others who participated in the infamous robbery, including Stanley Bond, who died two years later, when a bomb he built to escape the maximum-security prison in Walpole detonated prematurely; Robert Valeri and Michael Fleisher, who both testified against Gilday and were released after serving short sentences; Susan Saxe, who was on the lam for five years before she was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison; and Katherine Anne Power, who eluded authorities until 1993, when she turned herself in and served six years in prison.</div>
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When asked whether he would acknowledge his guilt in the shooting of Schroeder, who was responding to the robbery, Gilday took a long pause.</div>
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He said the copper-plated military-grade ammunition ricocheted off a brick wall before felling the police officer, who was considered a hero on the force for his bravery in responding to similar robberies. He said the officer was not targeted but hit accidentally, when Gilday and his fellow thieves decided it would be a good idea to fire a few shots at the bank to keep anyone from following them.</div>
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After another pause, he insisted he didn’t pull the trigger, pointing the finger at others in the group. But when asked if he felt at least partly responsible for Schroeder’s death, he bowed his head.</div>
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“Of course I do,’’ he said.</div>
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Schroeder’s relatives, reached a few weeks before Gilday’s death, said it was too late for any condolence.</div>
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Schroeder, who was 42 years old, had been a police officer for 19 years and was the father of nine children. His brother, John Schroeder, a detective on the force, was shot and killed in the line of duty three years later.</div>
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“I don’t care what he has to say,’’ said one of the officer’s daughters, Erin Schroeder, who became a Boston police detective, in an interview last month. “He’s never felt badly before. If he dies unhappy in jail, I’d be happy with that, especially if it was a long and painful death.’’</div>
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Other relatives did not return calls yesterday, and Erin Schroeder could not be reached.</div>
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Boston police and the Suffolk district attorney’s office declined to comment yesterday.</div>
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An aspiring baseball player from Amesbury, Gilday had a long criminal record before he shot Schroeder, with charges dating back to 1947 that include armed robbery, concealed weapons, and assault with a deadly weapon. In 1964 he was sentenced to serve up to 25 years for armed robbery. He served only five.</div>
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While in prison he met Bond, and the two enrolled in a university program for inmates. It didn’t take long before they got caught up in the radical politics of the era, and the two joined a group called Students for a Democratic Society and later the Weather Underground. They allegedly robbed other banks and led an assault on a National Guard armory in Newburyport.</div>
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Gilday ran in part because he thought he would not have survive his arrest.</div>
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Joe Hamel, 67, a news photographer for Channel 27 in Worcester at the time, witnessed Gilday’s capture and said the fugitive later thanked him for saving his life.</div>
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“He said he thought that if I wasn’t there taking pictures, they would have shot him,’’ Hamel said. “I think there was a good possibility that would have happened. Given the chase, if he had done anything stupid, I think he would have been well ventilated.’’</div>
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After Gilday’s arrest in Worcester and trial in Suffolk Superior Court in 1972, he was sentenced to death. But his life was spared by a US Supreme Court decision that overturned the death penalty nationwide.</div>
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Over his 41 years in prison, Gilday made a name for himself as a smart jailhouse lawyer.</div>
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US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner, who represented Saxe and knew Gilday, described him as an “enormously talented, very smart man.’’</div>
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“His life was a tragedy on many levels,’’ she said in a phone interview yesterday. “His talent was wasted.’’</div>
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Jim Pingeon, litigation director at the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, a nonprofit prisoners’ rights group, said Gilday helped reform the prison system with lawsuits against the state Department of Correction.</div>
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With mixed success, he fought the department’s practice of listening in on prisoners’ phone calls and opening their outgoing mail.</div>
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“He was definitely a leader among prisoners,’’ Pingeon said.</div>
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Steven Rappaport, a Lowell lawyer who worked as an advocate for prisoner rights in the 1970s, said he considered Gilday a friend who taught him a lot over the years. The two met when Gilday served as head of the MCI-Norfolk prisoner advocacy council.</div>
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“Often the clients trusted him more than their own lawyers,’’ Rappaport said. “I think he was a real force in helping inmates.’’</div>
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The last time he heard from Gilday was in May, when he received a letter in which the inmate complained about inadequate medical care.</div>
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In his hospital cell at MCI-Shirley, Gilday said he took pride in fighting the system and took his long years behind bars in stride.</div>
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When asked how he had survived for so long in such a difficult place - he was among the 17 percent of state prisoners serving a life sentence - Gilday said simply: “You get used to it. You make do the best you can. There’s no sense weeping about it.’’</div>
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He described the prison system as “a big machine’’ that “gets people and keeps them in.’’</div>
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His advice for surviving prison: “Don’t come in.’’</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before the joy
turned into rage, before the drugs and souped-up cars, the former prisoner had
modest ambitions. He talked about opening a hair salon, maybe an auto shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A father of two,
Stephan Cowans told friends and family he would make up for the lost years,
that he would earn their pride, and he hatched plans about moving with his
relatives out West or down South.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then the money
came, a sum he could hardly imagine in his days as a petty thief in Roxbury,
and the euphoria subsided into paranoia, the excitement of being back on the
streets was lost to bouts of depression and an unpredictable fury, which
surfaced whenever relatives suggested he get help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Four years ago,
Cowans walked out of state<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_2"></a><a href="" name="HIT_2"></a><span class="hit">prison</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Shirley a free
man, cleared by DNA evidence after being convicted of shooting a Boston police
officer and spending 6 1/2 years behind bars. It was an unlikely victory, one
neither he nor his relatives expected, and within two years the city and state
wrote him checks for a total of $3.7 million as compensation for his wrongful
conviction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cowans had little
more than a year to enjoy the money. Last October, at age 37, police found him
shot to death in his new home in Randolph, which he bought several months
before in an effort to escape the increasingly consuming fear he felt in
Boston. Authorities have yet to find the killer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"When he got
out, he was the happiest man in the world," said his grandmother, Laura
Lenard, who spent her savings trying to free him from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_3"></a><a href="" name="HIT_3"></a><span class="hit">prison.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>"But it didn't
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Relatives, friends,
and lawyers who represented Cowans say the money took a toll, and some blame
his sudden wealth for his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Near the end of his
life, Cowans was telling them he wished he never received the money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Despite the
best of intentions, money doesn't always make things better, and a lot of times
it complicates things, and I think it did complicate things for Stephan,"
said David Hosp, an attorney who helped Cowans win a $3.2 million settlement
from the city of Boston. "He definitely expressed to me a number of times
a feeling of never knowing what people wanted from him, after he had enormous
financial resources. I think it did make him a little less trusting, and I
don't know that that helped the issues of him coming out of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_4"></a><a href="" name="HIT_4"></a><span class="hit">prison.</span>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since 1989, at
least 213 inmates in the United States have been exonerated as a result of DNA
evidence, but for many of them, the years in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_5"></a><a href="" name="HIT_5"></a><span class="hit">prison,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the guilt by
association, and the task of trying to piece together a future out of a broken
past is overwhelming, according to the Life After Exoneration Program in Berkeley,
Calif. A study by the program of 60 such freed prisoners in 2003 found nearly
half suffer from depression or anxiety disorder, and about one-third have
experienced post-traumatic stress disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Adding a large sum
of money to the already freighted equation can add to their troubles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Without the
right support, giving an exoneree an immense amount of money is a recipe for
disaster," said Heather Weigand, director of Life After Exoneration
Program. "Any normal person who comes into a lot of money has to deal with
new pressures from family and friends, and it takes a toll on those with the
best mental health. When you're talking about exonerees, whose trust systems
are broken and who haven't had the ability to make decisions, it makes their
lives a lot more complicated. It can bring huge confusion and an overwhelming
sense of desperation."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cowans' odyssey
began in 1997, when he was arrested in the shooting of Sergeant Gregory
Gallagher in a Roxbury backyard. Police linked his fingerprint to evidence from
the crime scene, and Cowans was eventually convicted of armed assault with
intent to murder and sentenced to up to 50 years in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_6"></a><a href="" name="HIT_6"></a><span class="hit">prison.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>He was freed in
January 2004 after the New England Innocence Project urged investigators to
test DNA evidence from the crime scene. The DNA did not match Cowans', and when
authorities reexamined the fingerprint from the scene, they found that did not
match either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the day Cowans
was released, his attorneys and family threw parties for him. It was sweet
vindication, and he soaked up the freedom in a double-breasted suit and
silver-striped tie. "He was laughing and joking and eating," his
grandmother said. "The only thing they didn't have that he wanted was a
lobster. He was as happy as I'd ever seen him."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But there was also a
deep, underlying sadness, which did not take long to surface. Three months
before he was freed from jail, his mother died, and it hurt that she never
learned the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there were his
children, Thomas and Atara, who were ages 3 and 8 when he went to jail and 10
and 15 by the time he got out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Out of the
blue, he would just start to cry," said Cortney Cowans, one of his nieces.
"He missed so much."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At first, he had
trouble sleeping. He often got up before dawn, as was the routine in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_7"></a><a href="" name="HIT_7"></a><span class="hit">prison,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>but he didn't know
what to do with himself. He had enough of TV while behind bars, and he did not
like being alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"He had an
attention span of a ferret on crystal meth," said Sonya Cowans, his
sister. "He was never like that before. He couldn't sit still."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He eventually got a
job preparing food on the Spirit of Boston, a local pleasure cruise, but that
did not last long. "He wouldn't listen to anybody who told him what to
do," his sister said. "He had a problem with authority."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He began spending a
lot of time with Zolie Bonner, a girlfriend, but things soured as he started
using drugs. A year after his release, she said, he was taking crack multiple
times a day. "It got so bad. That's what he did all the time," Bonner
said. "Every time he went outside or stopped by the store, he was using.
It was one of the only things that gave him a release."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The substance abuse
led to physical abuse. Two years after he was freed from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_8"></a><a href="" name="HIT_8"></a><span class="hit">prison,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Cowans was arrested
on charges he gave Bonner a black eye by beating her with a boot and breaking
windows and other property in her apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He would be
arrested three more times, twice for possessing crack and once for driving with
a suspended license.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the money came
in 2006, he would go on shopping sprees for expensive clothes, shoes, hats,
even top-of-the-line cars, sometimes taking along the girlfriends of other men.
He favored Gucci and Prada, leather and suede coats, and bought more than 100
pairs of sneakers. He treated himself to a Mercedes CL500 and a BMW 745, which
he had detailed and repainted, and paid more than $500,000 in cash for his
four-bedroom, two-story Colonial-style house on a leafy cul-de-sac in Randolph,
which he never furnished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"He liked
being the local celebrity," said Tanasia White, another niece. "But
he started to get paranoid. Everyone was asking him for money. They knew what
he had, and they wanted a piece."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The paranoia often
emerged when he found himself near police, who had convinced him before he was
freed that he shot Gallagher while sleepwalking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was afraid
police were following him, that they wanted to frame him, plant evidence on
him. His addictions fueled his fears. Any car that rolled by, any sound, he
thought it was the police, Cortney Cowans said. "When the trees blew, he
thought it was the police."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If he was driving
and he saw a Ford Crown Victoria, the make of many of the city's police
cruisers, he would floor his car to escape. "It was like NASCAR,"
Cortney Cowans said. "He would drive 120 mph. You could see the fear in
his face. There wasn't any laughing. He was dead serious."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When relatives
suggested he get help, he would explode. Once, when his niece suggested while
driving with him that he consider therapy, Cowans slammed on the brakes. He
threw cab money at her and told her to get out of his car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It went from
little breakdowns to rage," Cortney Cowans said. "He would say, `I'm
leaving, because you're going on fussing.' He didn't want to talk about
anything that had to do with his sanity. If he thought you weren't on his side
all the time, you were his enemy."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last year, after
the drug arrests and the other run-ins with the law, the team of lawyers from
the New England Innocence Project who helped win his freedom finally persuaded
Cowans to attend a treatment program in Arizona.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Hosp took him
to the airport, and the two had a long talk. "I said to him that if he
took this chance to address the issues, he had the possibility of having a
really rewarding life," Hosp said. "If he decided not to, I told him
he wouldn't last very long. I said having a lot of money and a substance-abuse
problem was not a good combination. He agreed. He understood."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That was the last
time Hosp would see him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Four months after
Cowans started the program, he was kicked out for fighting with another client.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After coming home,
he seemed increasingly remote to friends and family. They had a hard time
reaching him, because he kept changing the number of his cellphone. He didn't
want people tracking him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People from all
over the old neighborhood were hounding him for money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Kids who knew
him from the second grade would come out of nowhere and ask him to borrow
$50,000," his sister said. "There were drug dealers, murderers, and
rapists after him for money. When he didn't give it to them, they were his
enemies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The day someone
shot him in the head, he spent time teasing his girlfriend, picked up his BMW
at an auto shop, and bought two pairs of sneakers at a store in Randolph. The
killer either followed him or knew where he lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a telephone
interview, Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating declined to comment on
whether investigators have made progress in the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"There's still
a great deal of activity surrounding the investigation," he said.
"I'm optimistic we'll find out who did this."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His friends and
relatives insist they know what happened. There's a clear motive of the crime,
they said: money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It was a
robbery gone bad," his sister said. "They probably thought he had a
big safe in the house."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the end, to
those closest to him, his death seemed inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I wish he
never received that money," his girlfriend said. "He was never the
same afterward. He would have been here today if it wasn't for that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_9"></a><a href="" name="HIT_9"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">can be reached at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</span></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282372117307798631.post-69975471329144621712014-01-11T14:57:00.000-08:002014-01-16T14:58:14.001-08:00Department of Incorrection
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="hit" style="background-color: white;">By David Abel | </span><span style="background-color: white;"> GLOBE STAFF | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">January 29, 2009 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mark Taylor knew something was wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the fall of 2006, halfway into a five-year sentence at the Massachusetts Treatment Center, the inmate asked prison officials why he was not accruing time off his term for good behavior. An official in the records division responded in writing, erroneously telling Taylor that he was not eligible because he was a habitual offender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One afternoon last month prison officials realized the mistake and abruptly told Taylor he was leaving, more than seven months after he should have been released, even though he had nowhere to go. An officer then took Taylor, who has a history of drug problems, to a homeless shelter in Worcester, where he said he spent a long night watching other men smoke crack and shoot heroin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I couldn't believe what was happening," said Taylor, now 47, who had been imprisoned for assaulting a friend while they were high on cocaine. "They gave me no warning and no choice. When I asked to make a call, they said it would have to be collect. They just gave me a few trash bags to gather my stuff, but I couldn't take everything. Then I was rushed out."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The error occurred more than 18 months after the Globe reported that the state Department of Correction confined at least 14 inmates beyond their release dates. Department officials subsequently vowed to make sweeping changes to their system for calculating sentences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last summer, the department paid a $100,000 settlement to Rommel Jones, a mentally ill inmate who spent more than four years in prison after he should have been released.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now Taylor is threatening to sue the state for depriving him of his freedom by failing to take into account 217 days he earned for participating in rehabilitation programs, a miscalculation that raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the department's new system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Correction officials insist their new system worked as designed. They have yet to issue an apology to Taylor, a schizophrenic who is temporarily staying with a cousin while he awaits a bed at a Department of Mental Health facility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It was a serious mistake that was made, and it was quite unfortunate, but the system worked," said Commissioner Harold W. Clarke of the Department of Correction, adding that he knows of no other inmates held beyond their release dates, other than those reported two years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I say the system didn't fail, because it caught the mistake," Clarke said. "It was an official at the facility who made the mistake. She just misunderstood the rules. After she sent the information, the mistake was discovered."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asked whether the records official had been fired or demoted because of the error, which was discovered Dec. 4, Clarke declined to discuss "personnel issues."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But he said the official has since received new training. "Her supervisor went over appropriate practices," he said. "She now knows that [habitual offenders] are allowed to earn good-time credits."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neither Taylor nor his lawyer - James R. Pingeon, director of litigation for Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services - was satisfied with the department's explanation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pingeon argued that the state made the same mistakes as it did with Rommel Jones, whom he also represented, and that Taylor's case demonstrates the department's promises to fix the system were hollow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It's absurd for them to say the new system didn't fail, when it was supposed to ensure that no one is held beyond their proper release date," Pingeon said. "That obviously didn't happen. The system is all of its parts. ... It sounds like the commissioner is trying to make excuses for the incompetence of his staff and trying to avoid addressing a very serious, systemic problem. It's just pathetic."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The department redesigned the system to centralize in one facility the sometimes complex calculation of inmate sentences, rather than having each prison calculate them separately. The complicated formulas include statutory good time, which can reduce a maximum sentence by up to 40 percent for those who committed crimes before July 1, 1994. There is also earned good time, which Taylor should have received, that allows inmates to receive 7.5 days a month off their sentences for taking part in work, programs, or educational activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"What I find appalling is that in 2007 the Department of Correction said they were going to change the system, but they keep making the same errors," said Pingeon. "Sure, there was human error, but they were supposed to develop a system that would protect against human error and poorly trained people at the institutions. There's a combination of arrogance and incompetence, and it makes them extremely resistant to reform."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Department officials said that they were doing the best they can and that no system can be foolproof, particularly against human error. They said a new date computation unit has been reviewing sentences of all male inmates in state custody since February and all female inmates since September. But to date, the department has only reviewed the cases of about 3,000 of 11,500 inmates in state custody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This review encompasses several elements to include the validation of existing release dates, statutory requirements, verification of jail credits, statutory good time when applicable, and earned good time," Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Correction, said in an e-mail. "This review covers the inmate's entire incarceration."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wiffin blamed the slow pace on reviews that can take several hours, varying formulas, the need to train staff, and a new computer system that requires "a lot of tweaking."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The review is very time consuming, as it entails a great deal more than just the main elements I listed," Wiffin said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite all the changes, the system still relies on prisons to compile sentencing information about inmates and, for all the inmates whose cases have yet to be reviewed, does not verify their discharge dates until 60 days before their scheduled release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That is why, in Taylor's case, they did not discover the mistake with his release date - originally set for Jan. 14 without any time off for good behavior - until last month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the day of his release, Taylor said, he was flustered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He kept telling prison officials that there must have been a mistake, that he would need time to arrange somewhere to stay. He also wanted to take his possessions - including a 13-inch television set, a Super 3-channel radio, a stack of self-help books, several pairs of sneakers, all his clothing - but he had no way to carry everything on his own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As he waits for a more permanent home and looks for work, Taylor said he expects to be compensated for the time he lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"At the least, I want some kind of apology," he said. "A sorry would be nice, and whatever else goes along with that."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="" name="ORIGHIT_3"></a><a href="" name="HIT_3"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span> can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282372117307798631.post-4271516973058417102014-01-10T15:04:00.000-08:002014-01-16T15:05:05.041-08:00Mutilating Fingerprints<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ssl0" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To avoid ID, more are mutilating fingerprints;</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> p</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">olice say scarring can thwart detection</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="hit"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David
Abel | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> GLOBE STAFF | </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">July 21, 2010 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So desperate was
one man to conceal his identity that he began biting his fingers and drawing
blood while being booked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some have used
eyedroppers filled with acid or pressed their fingers onto burning metal to
blot their fingerprints. Others have spent thousands of dollars to hire shady
doctors to surgically alter their fingertips, hoping to scar them beyond
recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The numbers are
still relatively small, but in the past decade, State Police detectives say
they have seen a sevenfold spike in people arrested with mutilated fingertips,
a disturbing trend they said reflects dire efforts to evade the harsher
punishments that come with multiple arrests, to avoid deportation, or to fool
the increasingly sophisticated computers that do most fingerprint checks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since 2002, when
State Police started to keep count of suspects with deliberately scarred
fingerprints, they have recorded 72 arrests, 20 of which occurred last year.
There were just three when they began keeping records.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's definitely
an increasing phenomenon,'' said Detective Lieutenant Kenneth Martin,
commanding officer of the State Police division that oversees fingerprint
analysis of crime scenes. ``We've seen it all: self-inflicted mutilation,
surgical efforts to cut out the core of fingers, and having the skin stitched
back in strange ways.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the last month,
federal and local officers in the area have made multiple arrests in three
separate cases involving people who sought to hide their identity by trying to
erase their fingerprints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While authorities
have had some recent successes in identifying those with mutilated
fingerprints, most have not been identified. Indeed, of the recorded arrests
this decade in Massachusetts, only 17 percent were positively identified by matching
their scuffed fingerprints with previously recorded<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">prints.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Moreover,
detectives suspect they are missing many others who may have been recorded as
new fingerprints by the state's computer system, which receives on average
about 700 fingerprint cards a day from some 360 law enforcement agencies around
the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 24-year-old
State Police computer system, which determines whether a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">print</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>matches one on
record or is a new, unrecorded<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">print,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>sends
only 25 percent of all fingerprints to department analysts for review.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``Unfortunately,
mutilation can work to evade our system,'' said Detective Lieutenant Deborah
Rebeiro, commanding officer of the State Police unit that oversees the state
fingerprint database, which has about a million records on file and can tap
into national and other state fingerprint databases with nearly 100 million
records. ``The system isn't perfect, but as we increase our networks and this
becomes more of an issue, I think you'll see we'll get better at it.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rebeiro and others
noted that fingerprint mutilation is part of a long history of criminals trying
to conceal their identity, which has included everything from assuming the
names of dead people to undergoing extensive plastic surgery. Among the most
notorious cases of a criminal destroying his fingerprints was John Dillinger,
the bank robber who had been on the lam for years in the 1930s and used acid to
burn his fingertips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But fingerprint
scans have become more sophisticated over the years, and police now require
those arrested to dab all their fingers in ink or have them scanned digitally,
including a nail-to-nail roll that takes in far more of the loops, whorls, and
arches than just capturing an impression of the fingertip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Officials at the
FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
said they do not keep national records of the number of suspects found to have
deliberately disfigured their fingerprints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``It's not
something we really track, but I have heard fingerprint examiners mention a slight
increase of people trying to mutilate their fingerprints, enough for them to
take notice,'' said Steven Fischer, a spokesman for the FBI's division of
Criminal Justice Information Services. ``We've found that most often people who
do this are those who can afford it or a prominent criminal arrested before who
fears multiple arrests.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Joe Polski - chief
operations officer of the Minnesota-based International Association of
Identification, the world's largest group of forensic scientists - said
analysts at the group's conference this month told him they are seeing an
increase in such cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``I wouldn't
describe this as an overwhelming problem, and it's worth noting that once a
fingerprint has been changed and it has been recorded, we have those<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">prints</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on record,'' Polski
said. ``There are a lot of minutiae in a fingerprint that can't be changed.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last month, such
residual data taken from previous bookings helped local authorities identify
Leonel Lopez-Ortiz, an alleged drug dealer from Randolph, and Jorge Falcon
Ortiz, who was arrested in Boston, also on drug trafficking charges. Police
said both had sought to frustrate efforts to identify them by mutilating their
fingers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last week,
prosecutors charged three people in a federal court in Massachusetts with
plotting to help illegal immigrants avoid detection by trying to alter their
fingerprints. Among those arrested was Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou, a doctor who flew
from the Dominican Republic and allegedly planned to surgically remove the
fingerprints of illegal immigrants for a $4,500 fee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the State Police
office of Crime Scene Services in Sudbury, Lieutenant Martin showed samples of
mutilated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hit">prints</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>he has collected
over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of the images
revealed small rectangular patches of skin from another part of the body
surgically implanted in the middle of the fingertips, in which the ridge
patterns are distinctly different from the surrounding skin. Others showed
crisscrossing lines or other odd patterns that blurred the surrounding swirls,
probably reflecting cuts from a knife or deliberate burning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said some
suspects do better than others in obscuring their identity. Surface cuts do not
do the job, he said; the marring must go deep under the skin, which grows back
with the original patterns if not sufficiently disfigured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">``The people who do
this are pretty desperate,'' he said. ``I can't imagine the pain it must take.
You have to get deep down, in the nerve endings. I see these people, to go to
this extreme, as a real danger to society.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="hit">David
Abel</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>can
be reached at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="" name="7606093129877213087"></a></b></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span class="hit" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4;">David Abel</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4;"> | Globe Staff | </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: -webkit-center;">June 18, 2007</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearly three years after the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state could post the names, addresses, and photos of the most dangerous sex offenders on a public website, sex offenders released from prison now often end up in homeless shelters, where it is difficult to track them, and a range of potential victims sleep nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a recent review of 77 Level 3 sex offenders - the category the state uses to define those with a high risk of committing sex crimes again - who list addresses in Boston on the state's online registry, the Globe found that 65 percent reported they were living at homeless shelters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Level 3 sex offenders are required by law to register their addresses with police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">City and state officials, police, and homeless advocates say the system meant to ease the transition from prison is broken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They say the glut of sex offenders listing shelters as their address raises questions about whether they have anywhere else to go, whether they are more likely to commit additional sex crimes, and whether they list shelters as their address to evade registration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is a critical issue of grave concern," said Jim Greene, director of the city's Emergency Shelter Commission. "Large, crowded homeless shelters are a militantly antitherapeutic milieu for people with mental health or other behavior problems. They're just not a place for a Level 3 sex offender to reintegrate into society."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He and other advocates for the homeless fault the state for more talk than action to keep sex offenders off the streets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Greene pointed to an unrealized five-year-old plan the state <a href="http://davidabel2.blogspot.com/2005/04/sex-offenders-filling-shelters.html" name="ORIGHIT_2" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="http://davidabel2.blogspot.com/2005/04/sex-offenders-filling-shelters.html" name="HIT_2" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"></a><span class="hit">Department of Correction</span> provides to shelters and other agencies that house recently released prisoners. Former convicts deemed at risk of committing more crimes, it says, should have "risk reduction plans" that include applications for specialized housing, special workshops to help them get jobs and medical services; and supervision after their release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But sex offenders released from prison often find themselves boxed out from housing. Gerard Theriault, for example, was forced out of a homeless shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After living for more than a year in the basement of St. Paul's Church, the 64-year-old pedophile returned to the Dorchester shelter one day in February and was told he had to leave, immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Archdiocese of Boston had decided it would no longer allow sex offenders like Theriault, who spent five years in prison for molesting a child, to stay at the shelter, which the Pine Street Inn has run for 20 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I didn't know where else I would go," he said. "It's not like anyone wants to take in a pedophile."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Massachusetts has eight regional centers, including one in Mattapan, to help about 20,000 inmates - including more than 200 sex offenders - released annually from state prisons and jails. Charles McDonald, a spokesman for the state's Sex Offender Registry Board, acknowledged the reentry centers are not able to help most sex offenders find housing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Having a home to live in is extremely important for a sex offender to reintegrate," McDonald said. "This is a problem that should be addressed on the grand scale."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One symptom of the problem, he said, is the state's failure to provide supervision for more than 1 in 6 sex offenders. There are 110 sex offenders in the state under strict state supervision, which includes GPS monitoring, biannual polygraph exams, and curfews, said Don Giancioppo, executive director of the Massachusetts Parole Board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said those 110 offenders are banned from living in homeless shelters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last year, the Legislature required the roughly 1,500 Level 3 sex offenders registered in the state to list their addresses more often - every 45 days instead of 90 days - if they stay in a homeless shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lawmakers also required them to register any other address where they stay four days or more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition, they banned sex offenders from living in nursing homes, required classification of sex offenders before they leave prison, and mandated lifetime parole supervision for any sex offender convicted of crimes involving children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In March, Governor Deval Patrick's office also submitted legislation to require mandatory post-release supervision for all inmates, which would last nine months to five years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The state does not track the number of sex offenders who return to prison for sex crimes or count the homeless Level 3 sex offenders who fail to register. State officials say 49 percent of inmates commit new crimes within one year of leaving prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Boston police Sergeant Detective Kim Gaddy, who verifies sex offenders' addresses, said it is time-consuming for the department to track homeless sex offenders, some of whom lie about living in shelters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It does pose difficulties for us, because few people may know them in the shelters and they leave during the day," Gaddy said. "Sometimes we can't find the individuals. You really have to do your homework."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr. James O'Connell, president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, said "an awful lot of people register at the shelter and live somewhere else."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The odds are that one or more of these sex offenders will recidivate, and if it's at a shelter, we'll all feel terrible," he said. "But if shelters say no to these people, where do they go? It just puts people in a terrible conundrum."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gerard Theriault found a regular bed in a program for older men at the Pine Street Inn's main, often overcrowded shelter in the South End.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Our mission and contracts dictate that we take anyone in who presents as homeless," said Shepley Metcalf, a spokeswoman for the Pine Street Inn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The only exception is for those who pose an imminent danger to others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She said Pine Street had no problems with Theriault, but that the shelter had to comply with the archdiocese's decision barring sex offenders from St. Paul's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The archdiocese issued a statement saying it had barred sex offenders from the shelter because "this situation, which we became aware of, was in conflict with the Church's commitment and policies to protect children."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As for Theriault, who takes humanities classes at Harvard Extension School and computer classes at Bunker Hill Community College, he hopes to move out of the shelter soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I'm concentrating my time looking for housing," he said. "It's rather problematic, to say the least. There are places that won't take you no matter what."</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://davidabel2.blogspot.com/2005/04/sex-offenders-filling-shelters.html" name="ORIGHIT_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="http://davidabel2.blogspot.com/2005/04/sex-offenders-filling-shelters.html" name="HIT_3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"></a><span class="hit">David Abel</span> can be reached at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dabel@globe.com" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dabel@globe.com</a>. Follow him on Twitter @davabel.</span></i></div>
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