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Corrections leaders highlight staffing, wellness, K2 and facility closures in Ways and Means hearing
Summary
Commissioner Sean Jenkins told the Ways and Means Committee that recruiting and retaining correctional officers, reducing forced overtime and responding to the public‑safety risks of synthetic cannabinoids are top DOC priorities; he described operational changes at maximum‑security Souza Baranowski, the closure of MCI Concord and expanded reentry programming.
Department of Correction Commissioner Sean Jenkins told the Joint Committee on Ways and Means that the agency’s most pressing challenges are recruiting and retaining correctional staff, worker wellness, and addressing emergent threats such as synthetic cannabinoids (often called “K2”).
Jenkins said Souza Baranowski is Massachusetts’ maximum‑security facility and the department is taking steps to reduce populations there, strengthen security operations, remove improvised metal items and potential ligature or weapon sources, standardize roll‑calls and communications, improve…
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