Posted by Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie, who was jailed last week for raping a woman in a Boston hotel, was transferred to Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a supermax prison home to notorious incidents
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Terence Crosbie was found guilty of rape last week
Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie has been transferred to a notorious supermax prison, infamous for allegations of extreme violence against inmates.
Crosbie, aged 39, was handed a minimum seven-year sentence after being found guilty of raping a woman in a hotel during the St Patrick’s Day festivities last year in Boston.
He has already served 20 months in Suffolk County Jail in Boston, but following his conviction last week, the father-of-two was relocated to the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center – the only maximum-security prison in Massachusetts.
The infamous supermax prison, housing approximately 1,000 men, recently made headlines when the State of Massachusetts agreed to a $6.75m (€5.86m) settlement for around 150 current and former prisoners.
The plaintiffs alleged they endured severe retaliation after several guards were assaulted by other inmates in January 2020.
Those convicts involved in the attack, which resulted in officers being injured, were reportedly transferred to other prisons. However, the remaining inmates claimed an excessive force crackdown led to them being unjustly targeted.
The complaint also included accusations of eye gouging, testicular grabbing and heads being slammed into walls, with Tasers, pepper ball guns and dogs allegedly used to maintain order among the inmates.
Following the substantial settlement being reached, Margo Schlanger, a law professor at the University of Michigan, remarked that such excessive force lawsuits involving prison wardens were “very, very hard cases to win”.
The prison has witnessed several notable incidents over the years. In 2017, former New England Patriots NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving time there after murdering his friend Odin Lloyd, took his own life in his cell.
John Geoghan, a notorious Irish-American priest whose conviction for child abuse triggered a nationwide Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, was also killed by a fellow prisoner in 2003.
Crosbie’s wife is reportedly standing by him after his conviction (Image: X)
More recently, however, a corrections officer was fortunate to survive after being knifed 12 times inside Souza Baranowski.
The attack in September last year saw two officers stabbed, with one victim suffering a punctured lung.
Dennis Martin, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, said at the time: “I could see maybe an assault, somebody getting punched. But somebody getting stabbed 12 times?
“That’s not just sending a warning. That’s to kill somebody. Twelve times stabbed in the back. He was lucky. He was fortunate. He was fortunate that he survived the attack.”
Staff from Prisoners Legal Services of Massachusetts also conducted visits last year following multiple complaints regarding conditions within the facility. During their visit, inmates voiced complaints about limited time outside their cells, a dearth of educational opportunities, and a prevailing “culture of punishment”.
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster
In a statement issued in May this year, the Department of Correction acknowledged that several reforms had been implemented.
Shawn Jenkins, the commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, stated: “The DOC did not wait for settlement discussions to act. We proactively amended use of force regulations, updated policies on K-9 deployment and disciplinary investigations.”
A new policy was also introduced requiring officers to switch on body cameras when responding to critical incidents.
Meanwhile, Crosbie is currently serving his sentence at Souza-Baranowski, and his solicitor, Daniel C Reilly, informed the Sunday Independent that the remainder of his time inside “will be tougher”.
The firefighter is intending to challenge his conviction, but this could take months before it is heard, if there are grounds to permit it.
One of the most infamous prisoners Crosbie will serve alongside is Alfred J Gaynor, a serial killer and rapist who murdered at least nine women.
Corrections officers move an inmate at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
Crosbie’s victim, a 29-year-old woman, expressed that penning an impact statement was incredibly challenging.
She stated: “It breaks my heart to know we live in a world where someone could do such a horrible thing to another human being and not have the decency to hold themselves accountable.
My rapist has never offered an apology or any indication of regret for what he did.”
During the sentencing, Judge Joshua Wall described Crosbie’s actions, who despite denying the rape and having 88 pages of character references, as a “predatory sexual act” and an “act of extraordinary sexual violence”, targeting a defenceless woman who was asleep.
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