Official: Nearly 200 Released From Prison Because Of Mass. Drug Lab Scandal, Cases Put On Hold [View all]
Source: Associated Press
STEVE LeBLANC
Associated Press
4:06 p.m. EST, November 28, 2012
BOSTON (AP) — Nearly 200 inmates have been released from prison and their cases put on hold as a result of a Massachusetts state drug testing lab scandal.
Public Safety Secretary Mary Beth Heffernan told lawmakers at a public hearing Wednesday that while investigators are looking at about 34,000 cases overall, 195 individuals have been released, 79 in Boston.
Heffernan said their release doesn't mean they have been exonerated. She didn't say what kinds of crimes they had been convicted of, but said they could be under alternative forms of supervision as they await future court hearings to resolve their cases.
An aide to Heffernan later declined to release any information about the past convictions, citing the state's criminal offender record law. A handful of those released have since been re-arrested.
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