This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. Paris Alston: First of all, give us some background on MCI-Framingham. Daniel Medwed: Massachusetts has one significant prison for women. It's ...

State corrections officials are considering closing the nearly 150-year-old women’s prison MCI-Framingham to avoid costly renovations. MassLive reports that the state signaled the potential move ...

Massachusetts correctional officials are taking preliminary steps to close MCI-Framingham and move its female inmates elsewhere, to avoid what state officials call the “prohibitive” cost of ...

State correctional officials previously spoke of plans to close MCI-Framingham and move the women by the spring of 2024, citing a “prohibitive” cost of renovating the poorly maintained prison.

The answer was the construction of a brand new prison for women: MCI-Framingham. The Commissioners of Prisons believed that Massachusetts would “look carefully at things new and old and see to ...

The oldest prison for women in the nation is here in Massachusetts. MCI-Framingham, built in 1877, houses about 200 women. More than half of those in custody are serving sentences longer than six ...

A group of 20 women incarcerated at MCI-Framingham testified live on Zoom at a hearing on Monday — for the first time in legislative history. Clad in green uniforms, each woman sat in front of a ...

Makayla Lowe is a busy inmate at MCI-Framingham. Lowe, 27, has been incarcerated for 27 months at the state's only prison for women. She is enrolled in its interdisciplinary studies program ...

Despite most women receiving minimum-security scores, nearly all are reclassified to medium-security status. This is partly due to the DOC’s decision to designate MCI-Framingham as a medium ...

sexually assaulted a female inmate while he was employed at MCI-Framingham, the state's only women's prison. He was employed as a corrections officer at the time. Gomes has been indicted by a ...

Jo Comerford said at a committee hearing Tuesday after more than 20 inmates testified virtually from MCI-Framingham on ... constructing a new women’s prison in Norfolk, and advocates say they ...