Judge Recommends Chin's Placement at Mass. Prison

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

The judge who presided over the trial of Glenn Chin has recommended that the former pharmacist serve his recently imposed eight year sentence at a federal prison just a short drive from his Massachusetts home.
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns today recommended Chin serve his sentence at the federal prison at Fort Devens, Mass. Chin lives in Canton, Mass. about an hour's drive from the prison.
Chin's lawyer had asked Stearns on Wednesday to make the recommendation following the judge's decision to impose the eight year sentence. The recommendation goes to the federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency Chin has been ordered to report to on March 14.
Chin was convicted last year on charges stemming from the probe of a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak caused by fungus laden drugs prepared in a clean room Chin supervised. He was convicted last year on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud and violations of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Co-defendant Barry Cadden had also asked for placement at Fort Devens, but he is serving his nine year sentence in western Pennsylvania.
Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company that sold the drugs that caused the outbreak. Nearly 800 patients were sickened and 76 of them died during the outbreak. Chin was a supervising pharmacist at the now defunct NECC.