to commit bribery and larceny. Locke is the only Massachusetts Cabinet Secretary to be convicted of a felony while in office since the state's adoption of the cabinet system in 1970. At sentencing, the prosecution requested a four- to five-year sentence. However, Judge Rudolph Pierce, who described Locke as having an "insatiable appetite" for payoffs, believed that the prosecution's sentence request was insufficient because it could allow Locke to be out on parole within 16 months. He sentenced Locke to 7 to 10 years in Walpole State Prison. Prison Locke began serving his sentence on March 19, 1982, in Walpole State Prison, but was later transferred to Concord State Prison for the classification process. On July 1, he was transferred to the medium-security Berkshire House of Correction. On December 23, he was transferred to the Lawrence House of Correction on the basis of family hardship. While in prison, Locke was the editor of a jailhouse newspaper. On September 29, 1983, Judge Pierce reduced Locke's sentence to 6 to 10 years, as he had miscalculated the date when Locke would have been eligible for parole. On March 19, 1984, Locke was released on parole. Later life and death Locke later left Massachusetts and moved to Montgomery Village, Maryland. For five years he was the president of CHI Centers, a Silver Spring, Maryland-based organization that serves the developmentally disabled. In 2006 he received the Spirit to Serve Award from Marriott International. Locke died on March 4, 2007, of a heart attack. References 1930 births 2007 deaths Boston University alumni United States Army officers American newspaper editors American public relations people People from Canton, Massachusetts Politicians from Boston People from Montgomery Village, Maryland Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority people Massachusetts government officials convicted of crimes Massachusetts Secretaries of Transportation State cabinet secretaries of Vermont 20th-century American politicians Military personnel from Massachusetts Massachusetts politicians convicted of crimes