Middleboro Residents Not Notified About Bridgewater Prison Break…
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Last Friday’s prison break highlighted several glitches with the way the facility alerts nearby residents about an escaped prisoner. In particular, a flood of complaints from residents in northern Middleboro, which borders MCI Bridgewater, were received by county and local authorities in recent days asking why they were not notified of the escape through a reverse 911 call. John Birtwell, spokesman for the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, said the department has received a number of complaints about the notification process. Middleboro Police Chief Bruce D. Gates also said he’s received complaints.
I actually heard the alarms going off that night but had no idea what it was. It never occurred to me that it was coming from the prison. I think that would have been good knowledge to have considering that I was standing on my front lawn trying to figure out what the heck the noise was!
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