Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center News

January Federal regulators approve Humira, a rheumatoid arthritis drug developed by Abbott Bioresearch Center in Worcester that will go on to post more than $1 billion in annual sales and spawn a bizarre genre of YouTube videos showing patients injecting the drug.

Lunenburg Wood stove is blamed for Lunenburg house fire LUNENBURG - A blaze estimated to have caused $200,000 in damage Wednesday was sparked by a wood stove, according to Fire Chief Scott F. Glenny.

Convicted murderer Thomas Toolan has alleged two jurors slept during portions of his trial in Nantucket Superior Court two years ago, a claim on which he based his recently-rejected bid for a new trial.

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 Shirley.

Local officials in Norfolk, Concord, Framingham, and Shirley are expressing disappointment and dismay over the loss of state mitigation funds that have in the past compensated them for the ambulance, police, and other services they provide to state prisons in their communities.

Judge James R. Lemire Nicholas Colton, 33, of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, Lancaster, was sentenced to five concurrent terms of 3 to 5 years in Walpole state prison, to begin upon his release from another sentence now being served, after pleading guilty to five counts of assault and battery on a correction officer.

Lancaster-Shirley Lockdown after scuffle shuts part of prison A section of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center was in lockdown yesterday after four correction officers were injured in a scuffle with an inmate.

One correction officer was slashed in the throat and another sustained a stab wound on his cheek after an inmate became enraged because he was assigned to double bunk with another prisoner in an orientation housing unit at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, said Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers ...

Gov. Deval Patrick's budget cuts to close a $600 million state deficit may cost Shirley $208,000 in payments, town officials said this week.

The prison system in the state is overtaxed, and MCI-Cedar Junction is no different despite a recent security switch.