The Department of Correction let Russ Dagenais's father, Scott (left), pick up his son's body last March after Russ killed himself. But it took seven months, and prodding by the Globe, to get permission to pick up his son's belongings. The Department of Correction says its policy is to release an inmate's property to the 'proven administrator or executor.'
The Department of Correction let Russ Dagenais's father, Scott (left), pick up his son's body last March after Russ killed himself. But it took seven months, and prodding by the Globe, to get permission to pick up his son's belongings.

The Department of Correction says its policy is to release an inmate's property to the "proven administrator or executor."
(Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
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