Beacon newspaper, 1960-1973.

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Beacon newspaper, 1960-1973.

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This newspaper for MCI Bridgewater (The beacon) was begun as a vocational exercise for the inmates, who set the type. Published monthly from Dec. 1960, and then bimonthly from Feb. 1971 (ending date undetermined), it was distributed within and outside MCI.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater

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In 1955 the Massachusetts correctional system was reorganized, so that the State Farm at Bridgewater became the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, commonly called MCI Bridgewater. With this change, Bridgewater's admittance of misdemeanor convicts (since 1866), state charges (i.e., almshouse paupers, since 1872), and aged or infirm state prisoners (since 1890) was terminated, leaving the prison population (i.e., aside from Bridgewater State Hospital) almost entirely those with a...