In 2022 the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office launched Services Over Sentences, a program funded to help lower-level offenders in the Mass and Cass area receive the support necessary to leave the area.
A Mass and Cass drug dealer who had a "major presence" in the area has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted on numerous drug and gun charges.
One man was injured and another arrested after a stabbing at a Southampton Street shelter in the Mass and Cass area at the center of the city’s addiction crisis.