Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Concord

Infobox Mass Prison
prison_name = Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Concord
image_prison =
image_prison_caption = |date_built = 1878
location = West Concord, MA
capacity = 800 but it houses over 1200 [Cite web|title=2002-2003 Annual Report|url=http://www.mass.gov/Eeops/docs/doc/research_reports/annaulrpt2002.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=Massachusetts Dept. of Correction|accessdate=2007-10-16]
security = Level 4 (Medium)The Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord (MCI-Concord) is a medium security prison for men located in Concord, Massachusetts in the United States. Opened in 1878, it is the oldest running state prison for men in Massachusetts.

Facility

MCI Concord is a level 4, medium level security prison. [Cite web|url=http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Law+Enforcement+%26+Criminal+Justice&L2=Prisons&L3=State+Correctional+Facilities&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=doc_facility_levels&csid=Eeops#level4|title=Prison Security Levels|publisher=Mass. Executive Office of Public Safety|accessdate=2007-10-16] The prison is located in Concord, Massachusetts on state Route 2. A Massachusetts State Police barracks and the Northeast Correction Center are located across the highway from the prison. The prison houses over 1,400 medium, maximum, and protective custody inmates. Every convicted criminal in Massachusetts passes through MCI-Concord and is then transferred to an appropriate facility based on security level. This prison was visited in 1988 by Mother Theresa on her trip touring all MA prisons and also by Cardinal Sean O' Malley in 2008.

History

MCI Concord opened in May 1878 as the New State Prison at Concord. [Cite book|title=Report of the Auditor of Accounts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the Year Ending December 31, 1877|publisher=Massachusetts Dept. of State|pages=pp. 17-18|year=1878] [Cite news|title=GENERAL NOTES|work=The New York Times|date=1878-12-22|pages=p. 6|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3D7153EE73BBC4A51DFB4678383669FDE|accessdate=2007-10-16] The State Reformatory at Concord was established in 1884 as a facility where prisoners under 30 years of age could learn a trade to be used on their return to society. In 1955, the Concord Reformatory was abolished and the prison was renamed to Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Concord.

Timothy Leary's Concord Prison Experiment was conducted at MCI Concord during the early 1960s. [Cite journal|title=Dr. Leary's Concord Prison Experiment: A 34 Year Follow-Up Study|journal=Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies|volume=Vol. 9|issue=No. 4|date=Winter 1999/2000|url=http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v09n4/09410con.html#DOBLIN|accessdate=2007-10-16] [Cite book|last=Horgan|first=John|authorlink=John Horgan|title=Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality|pages=p. 144|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Books|date=2003|isbn=061844663X]

Notable inmates

*Malcolm X was an inmate at the Concord Reformatory (now MCI-Concord) for 15 months in 1947 and 1948. [Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/malcolmx/timeline/index.html|title=Timeline|work=American Experience - Malcolm X: Make It Plain|publisher=Public Broadcasting Service|accessdate=2007-10-16]
* John Geoghan, a figure in the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, was in protective custody at the institution. [Daniel McGinn. " [http://www.newsweek.com/id/59992 Preying On The Predator] ". "Newsweek", 2003-09-08. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.] [Pam Belluck. " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4D6153BF937A35751C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print Inquiry Lists Prison System Errors in Case of Slain Priest] ". "The New York Times", 2004-02-04. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.]
* Leeland Eisenberg: the man who held Hillary Clinton's campaign workers hostage in Dec. 2007: served 20 years at MCI-Concord for rape until his release in 2005

ee also

List of Massachusetts state correctional facilities

References

* [http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Law+Enforcement+%26+Criminal+Justice&L2=Prisons&L3=State+Correctional+Facilities&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=doc_facility_concord2&csid=Eeops MCI-Concord] . Mass. Executive Office of Public Safety. Retrieved on 2007-10-14.

External links

* [http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Law+Enforcement+%26+Criminal+Justice&L2=Prisons&L3=State+Correctional+Facilities&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=doc_facility_necc&csid=Eeops Related Facilities - Northeastern Correctional Center]