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Bishop criticizes Kennedy remarks

The war of words between the Catholic bishop of Rhode Island and US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy escalated yesterday when Bishop Thomas J. Tobin criticized him for disclosing a confidential request the prelate made in 2007 to stop receiving Holy ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Patrick J. Kennedy,  Boston Globe,  Edward M. Kennedy,  U.S. Democratic Party

State prison assault data fuel debate

Statistics provided by state prison officials last week indicate that assaults have spiked at the maximum-security facility in Shirley and plunged at the Walpole prison, after the state’s most dangerous prisoners were transferred from Walpole to ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deval Patrick

Caution, ambition mix in Coakley’s methodical journey

It was a cold day in Dorchester when Martha Coakley’s ambition slammed head-on into political reality. She was running in a special election for state representative, an entry-level job in the world of elective office, with an eye toward eventually ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martha Coakley,  Louise Woodward,  U.S. Senate,  Jay Leno,  Thomas F. Reilly

Parolee now faces robbery charges

Donald Shapiro said he and his family appeared before the Massachusetts Parole Board seven times from 1993 to 2006 and implored board members not to parole a man convicted of participating in two slayings by the age of 15, including the murder of ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN AND JOHN R. ELLEMENT, Boston Globe,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Daniel F. Conley

Treatment units for mentally ill inmates on hold

The Patrick administration has shelved plans to build special treatment units for hundreds of seriously mentally ill inmates, two years after advocates for prisoners alleged in a federal lawsuit that the state’s practice of keeping such inmates in ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deval Patrick,  National Alliance on Mental Illness,  State University of New York

Two indicted in alleged terror plot

Two weeks after a Sudbury man was arrested in an alleged terrorist plot to kill Americans, federal authorities announced his indictment yesterday along with a former Mansfield man they say is now in Syria. Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury and Ahmad ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN AND SHELLEY MURPHY, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Al-Qaeda,  Massachusetts General Hospital,  Osama bin Laden

DA seeks to alter offender laws

Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. plans to urge lawmakers today to change the state law for civilly committing individuals as sexual dangerous persons, five days after a convicted sex offender freed from jail over prosecutors’ objections ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

Freed by judge, sex offender held after MGH attack

Since 1996, David Flavell has spent several years in jail in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for repeated sexual offenses, including touching himself in public, peeking under a stall in the women’s bathroom at a Borders bookstore in Braintree, and ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN AND JOHN R. ELLEMENT, Boston Globe,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital

US jury awards $14m to Drumgold

A federal jury awarded $14 million in damages plus interest yesterday to Shawn Drumgold, who spent more than 14 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of one of the most notorious murders in Boston in the last quarter-century. The jury in US ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Howard Johnson,  National Guard

Law’s long arm finds shirkers of jury duty

Sue Chisholm, a 54-year-old former employee of Walgreens, sat on a bench in the hallway of the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse in Boston, fidgeting as she waited to appear before an assistant clerk-magistrate along with a handful of other people. Each had ...

From JONATHAN SALTZMAN, Boston Globe,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Daniel F. Conley

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