Hearing DetailsCorrectional Consolidation and Collaboration

Event Details

Status:: Completed
Event Date:: Monday, March 9, 2026
Start Time:: 10:00 AM
Location:: Virtual Hearing
Event Description: Special Commission on Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration Meeting

The next meeting for the Special Commission on Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration will be held on Monday, March 9, starting at 10AM in Room 428 of the State House and livestreamed for the public.

 

Please be advised that the Commission has reserved time to hear from people with lived experience in the state’s carceral system. Written testimony may also be submitted electronically to teri.valentine@masenate.gov  and

Erin.Walsh@mahouse.gov.

Please note that this is not a general hearing on all correctional issues. Witnesses should share information and thoughts that bear on the Commission’s charge, which is as follows:

Section 214 of Chapter 140 of the Acts of 2024: (a) There shall be a special commission to study and examine opportunities for collaboration and consolidation among the department of correction, the county sheriffs, the parole board and the office of community corrections. For the purposes of this section, “facility” shall include a correctional facility, a house of correction and a jail.
          (b) The commission shall develop a list of alternatives to the distribution of responsibilities and oversight of facilities and shall consider any positive and negative impacts of each alternative. In developing alternatives, the commission shall: (i) consider the long-term fiscal sustainability of the facilities and recognize the need to reduce the cost to taxpayers of maintaining and operating facilities below capacity; (ii) recognize the need to provide safe and humane facilities for incarcerated persons; (iii) preserve flexibility to respond in a cost-effective manner to changes in incarceration levels; (iv) recognize the importance of evidence-based rehabilitative programming for incarcerated persons; (v) recognize the value of community-integrated reentry support services; (vi) recognize the advantages of local facilities for pretrial confinement and short incarcerations; (vii) recognize the advantages of local facilities in supporting family and community connections; (viii) recognize the value of existing facilities and other investments; (ix) recognize the need for increasing regional collaboration; (x) recognize the unique roles of sheriffs in varying urban and rural regions; (xi) recognize the unique issues posed by incarcerating female and LGTBQ+ populations; (xii) recognize the importance of addressing the social determinants of health in reentry services; (xiii) recognize the role that community organizations play in reentry services; and (xiv) recognize the alternative needs that county sheriffs may address….

Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration - 3-9-2026	3/9/2026 10:00 AM	04:53:28

Hearing DetailsCorrectional Consolidation and Collaboration

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