Old Colony Correctional Center

Old Colony Correctional Center is a Massachusetts Department of Correction men's prison in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The medium security facility is located in a 30-acre (12 ha) plot of land in the Bridgewater Correctional Complex with the Bridgewater State Hospital, Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center, and the Massachusetts Treatment Center. Old Colony Correctional Center Minimum Unit is under the authority of the correctional center; until the closing of the Southeastern Correctional Center in 2002, the minimum unit, established in the early 1980s, was under the authority of Southeastern.[1]

Old Colony Correctional Center
LocationBridgewater, Massachusetts
StatusOperational
Capacityabout 200
Opened1987
ClosedN/A
Managed byMassachusetts Department of Correction
DirectorSuperintendent Joseph Murphy

Notable inmates
  • Neil Entwistle - sentenced for the double murder of his baby daughter, Lillian Rose and wife, Rachel; he was transferred there on December 17, 2008,[2] after receiving death threats at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
  • Michael M. McDermott, who murdered seven of his coworkers in the 2000 "Wakefield massacre"[3]
  • Paul Shanley - Priest who was accused and found guilty of raping a male minor. Sentenced to 12 to 15 years.

References
  1. "Old Colony Correctional Center." Massachusetts Department of Correction. Retrieved on August 16, 2010.
  2. "Neil Entwistle transferred to new prison". Birmingham Post. December 18, 2008. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
  3. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-mad-1_09-cv-11992/pdf/USCOURTS-mad-1_09-cv-11992-0.pdf


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