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Suffolk County District Attorney Interested In Getting Some Prisoners Released Because of Coronavirus

Matthew McDonald

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins is looking to identify certain convicts in prison to release because of their vulnerability to coronavirus.

"In these uncertain times, where the landscape is changing minute by minute, District Attorney Rollins is working to make sure that individuals held in custody who are vulnerable because of their health, age, socio-economic status, or circumstances, but pose no meaningful risk to public safety are released from custody," the Suffolk County district attorney's office said in a written statement Thursday, March 19.

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Berkshires Hotel Industry Getting Crushed By Coronavirus

Matthew McDonald

The company that runs the famed Red Lion Inn in the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge and other lodging places in the area has laid off most of its 200 employees because of the coronavirus.

They are among several thousand jobs that could be lost in Berkshire County hotels, among an estimated 84,000 that could be lost statewide in Massachusetts, according to The Berkshire Eagle, citing the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

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