WORCESTER— A jail official yesterday admitted the first release of prisoners from the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction in West Boylston was flawed because freed prisoners were not given fare for transportation and a number hung around in town alarming residents and local police.
“It clearly was botched,” Jeffrey R. Turco, the jail’s deputy superintendent, told a meeting of the Main South Alliance for Public Safety yesterday. “A few prisoners walked down the hill from the jail with their bags over their shoulders and gathered at a car dealership. Nobody knew what was going on. Even the police were calling us. We botched it.”
In order to comply with a federal district court order to reduce the jail’s population, Sheriff Guy W. Glodis released 126 prisoners at the end of September — most of them pretrial detainees. Mr. Glodis plans to free 100 a month until the jail’s population is down to 1,251 and in compliance with an order issued in August by U.S. District Court Judge Rya S. Zobel.
Mr. Turco, appearing for the sheriff, who could not attend because of a previous commitment, said that in the future released prisoners will be given $20 each for taxi fare. “West Boylston bore the brunt of the release,” he said
The deputy superintendent, responding to the concerns of Main South residents that prisoners were being released to their streets, flatly denied that freed prisoners were dumped in Main South.
“We don’t dump prisoners in any area of Worcester County,” Mr. Turco said.
The Sheriff’s Department only transports prisoners who are going directly to a residential substance abuse program or are wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device and are being delivered to a specific address.
He said half the released prisoners had Worcester addresses and 10 of those had Main South addresses. In order to calm fears about prisoner dumping, Mr. Turco said the sheriff has ordered that Sheriff Department vehicles stay out of Main South. “You will not see one in Main South,” he said.
Alliance Chairman William T. Breault and District 4 Councilor Barbara G. Haller co-chaired yesterday’s meeting at the Main South Community Development Corp.
Mr. Breault said the jail needs to be expanded. “It’s a growth industry,” he said of incarceration.
But Mr. Turco said that even if the state Legislature approved funding for the $50 million expansion project, it would be a year before ground were broken and two to three years before completion.
“There’s no constituency for jail expansion,” he said. Any expansion will be held up, he said, pending completion of a study of jail crowding now under way
Posted by: Mikey682
No big deal in the City of Westfield. Out here the sheriff's department pretty much drops off their swill in the center of town at the homeless shelter. That way the town square is littered with shitbags hanging around all day smoking cigarettes and aquiring fresh arrest warrants.
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