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Pippin Ross, former reporter at WFCR talks about her years at Framingham Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Former reporter released from MCI-Framingham By Dan McDonald/Daily News staff Posted Sep 06, 2009 FRAMINGHAM ? Doing time in MCI-Framingham may have landed Pippin Ross, who once ran a public radio station in western Massachusetts before she was jailed for multiple drunken driving charges, the biggest scoop of her career: revealing what she refers to as the "beast of the correction system." In July 2006, after facing at least four drunken driving counts, Ross was sentenced to serve 2 to 4 years in the state women's prison in Framingham. During her stint inside, Ross, then Inmate # 80554, did what came naturally: She culled stories, taking copious notes, documenting everything from the green Jell-O and mystery soup at chow time to the Zen of mopping and sweeping in the morning...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).