- Massachusetts Probation Service
Media Contact
Coria Holland, Communications Director

A dozen community-based human services agencies set up resource tables with literature and give aways in the court’s third floor Jury Room.
“Our staff and the public had access to community stakeholders and interacted by having one-on-one discussions, obtaining literature, and learning about the services they provide to the community and probation clients. People who needed services were signed up on the spot at the tables,” said Dennis Halls, Suffolk Superior Assistant Chief Probation Officer and one of the key organizers of the Open House.
ACPO Halls said the event gave the public the opportunity to view the Trial Court and Probation as institutions that provide services to clients and are working to help probationers not only get on the right track; but, to create a path that will lead to a better life for themselves and their families.
Mr. Halls’ said the attendees of yesterday’s event included individuals from the community and reentry clients who attend Suffolk Superior’s monthly re-entry panel. They received information on affordable housing, CORI-friendly jobs, and healthcare.
“We have continued Commissioners Ifill’s legacy of his instituted reentry program which he started when he was the Chief Probation Officer here at Suffolk Superior,” Mr. Halls said.
The stakeholders who participated in yesterday’s event included the following:
- Mothers for Justice
- Averhealth
- Common Purpose (IPAEP)
- Office of the Jury Commissioner
- Community Justice Support Center
- Codman Square Neighborhood Development Cooperation
- Teaching Kitchen/Community Servings
- Office of Returning Citizens
- STRIVE
- NECAT
- Probation Re-entry Services (McGrath & Brook House)
- Maze of Life
- Father’s Uplift
- Gavin Foundation
- Boston Public Housing Commission