Published November 18, 2010

WBUR’s Benjamin Swasey reports:

Massachusetts’ highest court is ordering a major shake-up of the state Probation Department after an independent review discovered what the justices described as a system of “systemic abuse and corruption of the hiring and promotion processes.”

Here is the report of independent counsel Paul Ware:

Here is the statement from the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court:

In May, the Globe uncovered patronage and corruption in the Probation Department.