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Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has been a model inmate since being moved to a Boston jail and will be allowed to watch his former teammates on television if his behavior continues. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins tells the Boston Herald there have been "no problems, no complaints," and Hernandez is mingling with the general population at the Nashua Street Jail.

A bill that would outlaw the shackling of women prisoners during childbirth is making its way through the Statehouse. Massachusetts Department of Correction policy already prohibits prisoners in labor from being restrained, although restraints can be used when transporting pregnant prisoners...

After being treated at a Boston hospital, an inmate has shot a Deputy Sheriff after attempting to take his gun.

A federal appeals court in Boston is taking up the case of who will pay for an inmate's sex change surgery.

A federal judge in Massachusetts says he won't order more hair-removal treatments for a transgender inmate who won a court order for taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery.

Police in Holyoke have arrested a prison inmate who escaped from a work detail in Norfolk.

A convicted murderer in Massachusetts says a judge's decision to grant her request for sex-change surgery is 'the right thing to do'.