Springfield s New North Citizens Council receives $2 3 million in state funding to help Black and Latino men with substance use recovery masslive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from masslive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘I’m not going to play that game’: Gov. Charlie Baker stands firm on not requiring COVID vaccines for Massachusetts state employees
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announces that Massachusetts will transition to a new phase of its vaccination efforts, including gradually ramping down some mass vaccination sites in the coming months and pivoting to more targeted approaches at a press conference held at the State House.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Gov. Charlie Baker wants Massachusetts residents to get vaccinated, but he has stopped short of requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for state employees.
The Republican governor on Monday stood firm on his decision not to mandate vaccinations for state employees after being asked about possible mandates in response to vaccine hesitancy.
PITTSFIELD â A Pittsfield man admitted to investigators who executed a search warrant at his Maple Street home last week that he downloaded and viewed child pornography, according to federal authorities.
Benjamin Shacar, 34, of 18 Maple St., was ordered released from the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow on Wednesday to await trial at his relativesâ residence under a number of conditions.
Investigators said Shacar was using Tor software â itâs a network that anonymizes the IP address of users â to access âchild sexual abuse and exploitation material,â according to an affidavit filed by Daniel Yon, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations. The criminal complaint was made public via the online federal court records portal Tuesday.
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Correctional staff in Hampden, Worcester counties are getting vaccinated at rates higher than the state, but vaccine myths persist
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
More than 60% of Hampden and Worcester counties’ correctional staff have agreed to in-house COVID-19 vaccinations, a rate about 10% higher than Department of Correction employees statewide. It’s a trend that’s helped multiple facilities slowly return to normal operations, including increased visitations and educational programming for inmates.
Prisoners and correctional officers in Massachusetts were among those included in the first phase of the state’s vaccination rollout.
But local officials say they’re still striving to stamp out vaccination myths and misinformation among correctional officers and inmates, even though the virus has infected more than 2,700 Massachusetts prison and jail workers and left 22 inmates dead. Nationwide, distrust in prison administration and the handling of the pandemic prompted several