Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services

Counties Served:
Suffolk

Case Types:
AIDS/HIV, Individual Rights

Case Restrictions:
No criminal cases.

MCLS was established in 1972 to provide civil legal services to people in Massachusetts prisons and jails. The office does not provide criminal defense services. The office focuses on four issues: health and mental health care, guard-on-prisoner violence, physical conditions of confinement, and segregation and isolation. MCLS addresses these problems through administrative advocacy, legislative advocacy, and litigation.