Woman lay dying on floor of a Suffolk County jail cell for more than an hour as guards propped their feet up on desks, having a good time chatting, suit charges

By adamg - 7/23/24 - 1:26 pm

The father of a Dorchester woman who died at the South Bay House of Correction while awaiting transportation to an alcoholism treatment program today sued the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, jail guards and the state, charging that not only shouldn't she have been held there at all, she slumped into unconsciousness on the floor of her cell, where jail guards ignored her for more than an hour as she died. Read more.

Man charged with starting and leading group attack on a South Bay corrections officer as he arrived for work

By adamg - 8/1/19 - 6:06 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man for starting what turned into a stomping of a corrections officer that included beating him with a metal pipe on Atkinson Street just outside the South Bay House of Correction this morning. Read more.

Suffolk jail guard already charged with having sex with an inmate now also charged with bringing drugs into the jail

By adamg - 3/28/17 - 1:50 pm

Marlon Juba, a guard at the South Bay House of Corrections who was charged last year with having sexual relations with a female inmate faces arraignment today on charges he worked with a male inmate to smuggle drugs and other illegal stuff into the jail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

South Bay jail guard charged with sexual contact with an inmate

By adamg - 6/23/16 - 9:08 am

Updated with arraignment info.

A corrections officer at the South Bay House of Corrections had bail set at $20,000 today at his arraignment on a charge of having sexual contact with a female inmate, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.