He was released from federal custody on June 28, 2011, and was transferred to a Massachusetts prison to serve his 40-year state sentence.

He has them unethically tested on an uninformed control group that includes convicts at a Massachusetts high-security prison.

Mr. Holland is in a central Massachusetts prison serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole.

He cited terrible overcrowding in Massachusetts prisons as a major incentive to develop more alternatives.

Mr. Horton was charged with rape while on furlough from a Massachusetts prison.

Mr. Horton was serving a sentence for murder in a Massachusetts prison.

It is also unclear whether the state will take any further action to protect other former priests serving time in Massachusetts prisons.

During his year in office, he effectively advanced an agenda of tax reform and advocated further improvements in Massachusetts prisons.

He was sentenced to five to seven years imprisonment for these offences and spent time in a Massachusetts prison until his release in 1992.

Willie Horton was the black murderer who raped a white woman while on furlough from a Massachusetts prison.