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Fewer batterers put into programs

Victims' advocates fault plea bargains

By Maria Cramer
Globe Staff / April 8, 2008

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As domestic homicides more than doubled in Massachusetts, judges across the state sent only about half as many batterers to abuse intervention programs last year as they did in 2003, according to public health officials. (Full article: 1148 words)

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