A former assistant director of a Boston reentry program for women has failed yet again to convince judges that a law barring soliciting sexual favors from an inmate in exchange for helping them get parole shouldn’t apply to him.
Anthony Williams was the assistant director of McGrath House in the 600-block of Massachusetts Avenue in Boston’s South End for only seven months when on Sept. 20, 2021, he allegedly had an inmate perform oral sex on him in exchange for hiding her failed drug test.
Community Resources for Justice, or CJR, a Boston-based nonprofit which operates residential reentry programs including the McGrath House, somehow found out about the incident and fired him a month later.
CJR has run reentry programs in partnership with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department since Ja