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Wading through the unbelievable morass that is county politics in Massachusetts, this commission concluded that the county houses of correction should be turned over to the well-developed state corrections system, run by Commissioner McGrath...
After the commission's report was issued, McGrath actively and vociferously supported the change, thus earning the hatred of virtually every sheriff in Massachusetts. The reason for the sheriffs' concern is clear: the awarding of supply contracts, together with the patronage in the non-civil service county houses of correction, is of enormous importance. In state where sheriffs exercise great power over the county political organizations, angering a sheriff is fatal...
...McGrath's replacement is, like McGrath, a Democrat, and in this lies the subtle insidiousness of Volpe's action. Volpe has evidently bowed not to the spoils system, but to the organized power of politicians of both parties--the sheriffs--whose main function, with some exception, has been squeezing their discredited county houses of correction for every cent available. Volpe has firmly established that the sheriffs of the Commonwealh tell the governor what...
...state where deals, corruption and inefficiency have recurred with a monotonous regularity, the Department of Correction has been a refreshing oasis, presided over by a tough, scrappy, honest, and superbly competent commissioner. McGrath has continued to push the Correction Department into a position of national renown...
...chief investigator for the delinquency research team of Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck of the Harvard Law School, to his career at Boston College Law School (first in his class, assistant dean, and assistant professor), to his years as executive secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, McGrath had acquired a broad background before he became commissioner...