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Push on to release Mass. inmates; Vermonters to track vaccinations
Maxi Kolb, an exchange student from Germany, takes a photo of a group of Santas and elves getting ready for their annual Christmas morning run on Main Street in Auburn, Maine, on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. The group gets together every Christmas morning and runs a loop through Lewiston and Auburn. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP)
Published December 25. 2020 11:57PM
BOSTON (AP) A look at coronavirus developments in New England:
MASSACHUSETTS
Prisoner advocates in Massachusetts are redoubling their legal efforts to release inmates from state prisons because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts argued in a Suffolk Superior Court filing Thursday that the state Department of Correction needs to release inmates to home confinement, furlough, medical parole and other legal measures so that the remaining prisoners can safely socially distance behind bars.
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