Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center

Souza Baranowski Correctional Center

Location	Shirley, Massachusetts
Status	Operational
Security class	Supermax
Capacity	1024 (Houses 1,237)
Opened	September 30, 1998
Managed by	Massachusetts Department of Correction
Director	Superintendent Thomas Dickhaut

Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center is a maximum security prison located at MCI Shirley in Shirley, Massachusetts, United States. The prison opened September 30, 1998 and is one of the most high-tech correctional facilities in the United States.

The center was named in the memory of two correctional staff, Corrections Officer James Souza and Industrial Instructor Alfred Baranowski, who were killed at MCI Norfolk in 1972 during an aborted escape attempt by a convicted murderer.

Supermax Security/Technology

Construction began on Souza-Baranowski on November 19, 1996. Less than 2 years later, SBCC was completed incorporating the highest degree of technical integration of any prison in the country. Officially opening on September 30, 1998, this 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m²), high-tech, maximum security facility. The security system is operated by 42 graphic interfaced computer terminals (GUI), which drive a keyless security system. The GUI controls 1705 doors, lights, receptacles, water, intercom/Public Address, fire alarms and vehicle gates. Incorporating one of the largest camera matrix systems in the country, 366 cameras record live 24 hours a day. The perimeter surveillance system includes taut wire and microwave detection systems.

Notable inmates

• Joseph Druce murdered defrocked priest John Geoghan in the prison in August 2003. Geoghan, convicted of child molestation in 2002, was a key figure in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandals in the Boston Archdiocese in the 1990s and 2000s.
• Neil Entwistle convicted in 2008 of murdering his wife, Rachel and baby daughter, Lillian Rose in their Hopkinton, Massachusetts home. He is now being incarcerated in Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater.
• Workplace spree-killer - Michael "Mucko" McDermott, who murdered 7 people in 2000 at his workplace at Wakefield's Edgewater Technology. It was the deadliest workplace massacre in Massachusetts history.
• Alfred J. Gaynor, the Springfield serial killer, is also currently staying at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, serving four consecutive life sentences for raping and murdering four Springfield women in 1997 and 1998.

External links

• Prison Homepage
• Prison Visiting Policy
• Directions to Prison