Sheriff Illegally Seizes Armory to House Inmates
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Fed up with months of overcrowding in the county jail, a sheriff on Friday commandeered a National Guard armory as a temporary prison.
Hampden County Sheriff Michael Ashe said that he took the action “to prevent the collapse of the criminal justice system. . . . “
State Secretary of Public Safety Charles V. Barry said Ashe had been notified it was illegal to put prisoners in the armory. He was ordered to have them removed.
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