Grand Opening Set For Framingham Community Corrections Center

FRAMINGHAM, MA — Local elected officials will gather in Framingham on Friday for the grand opening of a community corrections center aimed at helping people exit the criminal justice system. The center opened over the summer along Howard Street.

The Framingham center is one of 18 across the state — a 19th is set to open soon in Franklin — and offers services like counseling, drug testing, and classes to study for the Massachusetts high school equivalency degree.

The center will serve a wide range of people, from those on probation to members of the veterans' treatment court.

State Sen. Karen Spilka, D-Framingham, will tour the facility with Probation Commissioner Edward Dolan, Massachusetts Trial Court Chief Justice Paula Carey, Trial Court Administrator Jonathan Williams, Framingham District Court First Justice David W. Cunis, and Social Services Network, Inc. CEO Vincent Marturano, among others.

"Everyone deserves a chance to succeed and with the opening of the Framingham Office of Community Corrections those in our criminal justice system will have an outlet and resources to do so," Spilka said in a statement. "Thanks to this new Community Corrections Center, this vulnerable population will have access to education and employment supports as well as mental health and substance use treatment programs to help improve their lives."

The grand opening tour and remarks by officials begins at 10 a.m. on Jan. 17 at 298 Howard St., Framingham.