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Probation Commissioner appoints new director of Community
Corrections
Massachusetts Commissioner of Probation Edward J. Dolan has
appointed attorney Vincent L. Lorenti as the new director of the
Office of Community Corrections (OCC), a division of the
Massachusetts Probation Service which is comprised of 18 community
supervision centers across the state. Lorenti assumed his new role
on January 19.
As the new director, Lorenti is responsible for managing the
overall operation of the statewide OCC program where intermediate
sanctions for probationers are enforced. Individuals sentenced to
the centers must check in several times weekly and participate in
substance abuse treatment, HiSet (Massachusetts High School
Equivalency Testing) Program preparation and job training.
Lorenti's duties also include managing the Massachusetts Trial
Court Community Service Program through which probationers perform
such tasks as park clean-up, snow removal and delivery of food to
soup kitchens in lieu of paying court fees.
Lorenti began his career with Probation as a court services
coordinator at the Suffolk County Community Corrections Center in
1998 after working as an intern while a student at Boston College.
Lorenti later served as a program specialist at OCC where he worked
with staff from the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission to develop
data collection procedures and performance metrics for community
corrections centers.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from
Boston College in 1998 and a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University
Law School in 2006. Lorenti was admitted to the Massachusetts bar
in 2011.
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Amendments to Rule 3:07 of the Rules of the Supreme Judicial
Court