An extraordinary postcard arrived in November 1878, addressed to Samuel Emery Chamberlain, the warden of the new Concord state prison, which had opened earlier that year next to rail lines in the ...

State leaders have decided to close MCI-Concord, the oldest men’s prison in the Bay State, as a way to save money — while the correction officers union is slamming the closure, warning that it will ...

While Concord town officials have praised what prospects could come about from the impending closure of MCI-Concord in June, one official said it is not yet clear what the prison’s shuttering could ...

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CONCORD, MASS. (WHDH) - After nearly 150 years as a prison, MCI-Concord shut its gates Wednesday and relocated around 300 people who were incarcerated at the facility. In January, the Healey-Driscoll ...

CONCORD, MASS. (WHDH) - Massachusetts’ more than 140-year-old prison in Concord will soon shut down under a new state budget plan outlined by Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday. Opened in 1878, the medium ...

Officials on Wednesday cited the prison’s aging infrastructure and the declining number of incarcerated people in state prisons as some reasons for the closure. MCI-Concord, a medium-security men’s ...

BEFORE THE CONCORD ROTARY. PERHAPS YOU’VE SEEN THE CROSS ON THE HILL OR ON THE POPULAR BRUCE FREEMAN RAIL TRAIL. MAYBE YOU’VE BIKED OR RUN PAST THE HILLSIDE MEADOW, SHROUDED BY THE TALL TREES, AND ...

As Massachusetts plans to close its oldest men’s prison — and visions of housing, businesses, and even a winery have been proposed for the site — prison reform advocates argue the men now incarcerated ...