Souza Baranowski Correctional Center

Sixteen inmates have been indicted on a total of 109 charges in an attack last month at Massachusetts prison that left four correction officers injured, prosecutors said Thursday. A Worcester County grand jury handed up 109 indictments Thursday charging the 16 inmates at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s office. The charges stem…

A female correction officer was assaulted Tuesday afternoon by an inmate at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, in Shirley, Massachusetts, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. The attack happened around noon in one of the prison’s restrictive housing units while the officer was dispensing medication through the food slot of the inmate’s door, the spokesman...

A lawsuit is being filed over alleged retaliation at a prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, following an attack on a corrections officer.

Over the weekend, Gov. Charlie Baker visited with the corrections officers hurt Friday in an attack at a prison in Shirley, Massachusetts. The attack at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, which began when an officer was surrounded and assaulted by inmates in a general population housing unit, left that officer hospitalized along with two others who intervened. Baker spoke with the…

A correction officer was assaulted Friday afternoon at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. Officials said the officer was taken to a hospital following the incident, along with two other officers who responded to the alleged assault. The officer was surrounded and assaulted by a number of inmates in…

Shocking video shows a melee that left three corrections officers injured.

A correction officer was assaulted Friday afternoon at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, authorities said.

A corrections officer was assaulted and four other prison guards were hospitalized following an incident Tuesday morning at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts. The prison was locked down and remains so as a result of the incident, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.

A correction officer at a Massachusetts prison was arrested after he allegedly assaulted an inmate. Thirty-five-year-old Joseph Sampson of Westminster, a guard at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, was charged with assault and battery on a person over 60, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.

Six inmates at the Sousa Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts were indicted Friday on assault charges that left six officers injured and the prison on lockdown.

A new book written by high-profile criminal defense attorney Jose Baez reveals details of the suicide letters Aaron Hernandez wrote before hanging himself in prison last year.

The former fiancee of Aaron Hernandez has announced she’s pregnant, more than a year after the New England Patriots star was found dead inside of his prison cell.

Lawyers for Aaron Hernandez are suing the NFL and the New England Patriots over his death after a brain study showed the former football star suffered from a “severe case” of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Former football star Aaron Hernandez was $2 million in debt at the time of his death in April, according to new court filings obtained by the Boston Herald.

Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, an explosive tight end who had been convicted of murder and last week cleared in two other killings, was discovered dead in his prison cell by a corrections officer early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez’s death has officially been ruled a suicide, according to the district attorney’s office in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Prosecutors on Friday released an excerpt of the letter Aaron Hernandez wrote to his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, before he committed suicide last month.

Three suicide notes that former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez allegedly left in his cell before killing himself last week were handed over to his family Monday, the Worcester County District Attorney’s office confirmed.

Just weeks before hanging himself in his prison cell, ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez reportedly wrote a letter to a friend and fellow inmate saying that he was considering suicide.

Inmates at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, allegedly refused to return to their cells, prompting the evacuation of corrections officers.