CLINTON — The Massachusetts Probation Service kicked off what its leader called the beginning of an era Friday, graduating a class of recruits from its new Probation Officer Academy.
“Sometimes, (this job) doesn’t feel that great,” Commissioner Pamerson O. Ifill, his voice tinged with emotion, told a room of graduates Friday. “But today feels like a thousand times better than anything you can imagine.”
The 27 men and women who graduated from the two-week training academy are the first to receive such dedicated, pre-job training in at least three decades, Ifill said…