The special court, referred to as a 'Community Response Session,' ran for three weeks, in parallel with former acting Mayor Kim Janey’s executive order to clear all tents near Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue.
“We’ve tried to arrest our way out of this, and it didn’t work,” ACLU executive director Carol Rose told GBH News. “When you have a law enforcement response to a public health crisis, it's simply going to stay."
Attorneys say one of the men who appeared at this week's inaugural session of a new court inside the Suffolk County jail is now being held at another jail where there is a coronavirus outbreak.
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