"Patrick aims to take over Probation Department"
"Rising budget, patronage, and insularity cited by critics"
Boston Globe
January 24, 2010
Read an article in the Boston Globe about the MA Department of Probation:
"Governor Deval Patrick, in his new budget this week, will seek to wrest control of one of the fastest-growing but most secretive state agencies, taking direct charge of the probation officers who supervise criminals when they serve their sentences outside a prison cell.
Patrick’s proposal would largely remove the Probation Department from the court system, where, critics say, it has become a backwater of patronage jobs and bloated budgets, operating mostly independent of other public safety agencies..."
Read the full article in the Boston Globe
