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Additional text on item: The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a bill banning courtroom prisoners' cages which date back some 270 years. The passage completed a four year fight by former Att. Gen. Edward J. McCormack Jr., and ad even longer campaign by the Boston press. At left is the old prisoner cage in Superior Criminal Court, East Cambridge. Workman dismantle one of two cages (right) in Middlesex Superior Court's two criminal sessions in compliance with the new law.
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Courtesy of the Cambridge Historical Commission, Cambridge Photo Morgue Collection.
