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The prison is named in honor of a corrections officer, James Souza, 29, and an instructor Alfred Baranowski, 54, who were shot in July 1972 by an inmate whose wife had smuggled in handguns into what was then the Norfolk Prison Colony. Souza-Baranowski is the only post-conviction maximum-security state prison in Massachusetts. [3]
This facility is under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It is located directly to the north of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security facility in the town of Lancaster. On January 6, 2020 there was 992 Medium and 269 minimum inmates in general population beds.
On July 31, 1972, Corrections Officers Alfred Baranowski and James Souza were shot and killed by an inmate using a smuggled firearm during an escape attempt. In the officers' memory, the Department of Corrections named their new supermax prison the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts.
The union says a search of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center turned up weapons but was halted "for reasons we don't know." State response to prison attack 'inadequate,' corrections officers ...
Another three corrections officers were also injured when responding to the inmate assault, which occurred at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster about 50 miles northwest of ...
About 50 corrections officers are now wearing body cameras as they go about their regular duties at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, part of a pilot program that could ...
The five officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster were taken to hospitals after the confrontation Wednesday night, Scott Croteau, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, said in a statement Thursday.
Northeastern Correctional Center West Concord Minimum/Pre-Release Old Colony Correctional Center: Bridgewater Medium Pondville Correctional Center: Norfolk: Minimum/Pre-Release South Middlesex Correctional Center: Framingham: Minimum/Pre-Release Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center: Shirley: Maximum