incarceration
We Need to Help Hampden County Inmates
By Sam Howe '23
•April 7, 2021
Content Warning: Violence, Racial Violence Right now, the people held at the Hampden County Jail (HCJ), a correctional center located 16 miles from campus, are facing constant abuse. In letters to a local abolitionist group named Decarcerate Western Mass [https://linktr.ee/decarwmass], incarcerated people have detailed the regular violations and threats they face inside the jail. One person was held on the ground and beaten while crying and screaming. Another person had a special ops team calle