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‘Believe in redemption’

After 41 years in Boston probation, Bernie Fitzgerald retires as a legend

By Lawrence Harmon

 |  Globe Columnist  

  May 12, 2012

Bernie Fitzgerald, chief of probation in Dorchester District Court, managed to keep his unit on the up and up even while the statewide Probation Department fell into a morass of corruption. Fitzgerald is retiring after 41 years of giving both his staff and his probationers the protection and freedom they needed to succeed.

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