The Boston Globe

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Walpole

Prison money

The town will receive $750,000  from the state in fiscal 2013  as mitigation for having a state prison within its borders. That is the same  amount that the town received last fiscal year, according to Jean  Hogan,  an aide to state Representative John Rogers. Hogan said Walpole also will receive up to $50,000  from a separate state account divided among all Massachusetts communities that host prisons. There are no  restrictions on how the town spends the state money, which is part of the recently signed state budget,  she said.