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MA Gen L ch 125 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. As used in this chapter and elsewhere in the general laws, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings:  (a) ''administrator'', chief administrative officer of a county correctional facility;  (b) ''commissioner'', the commissioner of correction;  (c) ''committed offender'', a person convicted of a crime and committed, under sentence, to a correctional facility;  (d) ''correctional facility'', any building, enclosure, space or structure used for the custody, control and rehabilitation of committed offenders and of such other persons as may be placed in custody therein in accordance with law;  (e) ''correctional institution'', correctional facility;  (f) ''county correctional facility'', any correctional facility owned, operated, administered or subject to the control of a county of the commonwealth;  (g) ''department'', the department of correction;  (h) ''gainful employment'', employment within or without any correctional facility including but not limited to labor for the operation and maintenance of any correctional facility;  (i) ''inmate'', a committed offender or such other person as is placed in custody in a correctional facility in accordance with law;  (j) ''institution'', facility;  (k) ''penal institution'', correctional facility;  (l) ''prison'', correctional facility;  (m) ''prisoner'', a committed offender and such other person as is placed in custody in a correctional facility in accordance with law;  (n) ''state correctional facility'', any correctional facility owned, operated, administered or subject to the control of the department of correction, including but not limited to: Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Concord; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Plymouth; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Warwick; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Monroe;  (o) ''state prison'', any prison owned, operated, administered or subject to the control of the department of correction including, but not limited to: Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Concord; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Plymouth; Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Warwick; and Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Monroe;  (p) ''superintendent'', the chief administrative officer of a state correctional facility.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 2 - Superintendents and Deputies of Correctional Institutions; Appointment; Bond

Section 2. The superintendent and the deputy of each correctional institution of the commonwealth shall be appointed by the commissioner, shall hold office during his pleasure, and shall not be subject to the provisions of sections nine A and nine B of chapter thirty, or chapter thirty-one.  Each superintendent shall, before entering on the performance of his official duties, give bond to the commonwealth, in such sum as the comptroller may prescribe, with sureties approved by the commissioner, conditioned faithfully to perform the duties of his office. The approval of the sureties shall be endorsed on the bond, and it shall be filed with the state treasurer.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 3 - Officers and Employees of Institutions; Appointment; Duties of Correction Officer or Correctional Program Officer

Section 3. All other officers and all employees in the said institutions shall be appointed by the commissioner, and, except as otherwise provided in chapter thirty and thirty-one, shall hold office during his pleasure. The duties of a correction officer or correctional program officer shall include the duty to transport inmates outside of a correctional facility and to prevent their escape, and no special state police officer appointment under section 127 of chapter 127 shall be necessary for such purposes.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 4 - Certification of Persons Eligible for Appointment

Section 4. In certifying the names of persons eligible for appointment as correction officers in said institutions, the personnel administrator shall certify the names of persons who at the time of examination were over the age of nineteen.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 5 - Vacancy in Office of Superintendent; Acting Superintendent; Bond; Compensation

Section 5. If the office of the superintendent of any of the said institutions is vacant, or if the said officer is absent from the institution or is unable to perform his duties, an acting superintendent designated by the commissioner shall have the powers to perform the duties and be subject to the liability of the said office; and the commissioner may required such acting superintendent, before entering on the performance of his official duties, to give a bond to the commonwealth in such sum as the comptroller may prescribe, with sureties approved by the commissioner, conditioned on the faithful performance of such duties, and faithfully to account for all money received by him, as such acting superintendent. After the approval of such bond, the acting superintendent shall, as long as he performs the duties of the office, receive the salary of the superintendent in lieu of his salary prior to his designation as acting superintendent.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 6 - Treasurers; Appointment; Bond; Duties

Section 6. The commissioner shall appoint a treasurer of each correctional institution of the commonwealth, who shall give bond with surety for the faithful performance of his duties. In each such institution the said treasurer shall receive and disburse all moneys paid by the commonwealth for the support of the institutions, and shall cause to be kept such books of account of the property, expenses, income and business thereof as may be approved by the comptroller.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 7 - Suggestions for Alterations in Commissioner's Rules

Section 7. The superintendent of each such institution shall from time to time suggest to the commissioner in writing such alterations in the commissioner's rules as he considers advisable for the direction of the officers and employees of the institution and its government.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 8 - Uniforms

Section 8. Officers and employees in each such institution required to wear uniforms while on duty shall be furnished at the expense of the commonwealth with such uniforms of standard pattern as shall be prescribed by the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 10 - Oaths of Officers; Administration

Section 10. All officers of such institutions, before entering upon the performance of their official duties, shall take and subscribe the following oaths:—''I, A.B., do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me, God.'' ''I, A.B., do solemnly swear that I will obey the lawful orders of all my superior officers. So help me, God.'' ''I, A.B., do solemnly swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me in the office to which I have been appointed according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the requirements of the constitution, the laws of the commonwealth, and the rules provided in accordance with law for the government of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth. So help me, God.'' The oath may be administered by any officer authorized by law to administer oaths, and a record thereof shall be in the possession of the principal officer of the appropriate institution.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 11 - Maintenance of Correctional Institutions; Expenses in Maintaining United States Prisoners

Section 11. The department of correction shall maintain, for the security and confinement of prisoners of the commonwealth, the correctional institutions of the commonwealth. A person convicted and sentenced in a court of the United States need not be received in any such institution unless the United States agrees with the commissioner to pay all expenses incurred by the commonwealth in maintaining him therein.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 12 - Holding Prisoners in Accordance With Sentences or Orders of Courts; Personal Property; Receipt

Section 12. All persons sentenced to any of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth shall be held in accordance with the sentences or orders of the courts and the rules and regulations of the commissioner. The personal property, valued in excess of fifty dollars, of all inmates held in correctional institutions of the commonwealth or in institutions maintained under the provisions of chapter one hundred and twenty-six shall, in so far as practical, be permanently marked with an identifying number assigned to the owner. If said property is removed from the possession of the owner, the owner shall be given a receipt, prior to any such removal.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 13 - Officers of Correctional Institutions

Section 13. The officers of each correctional institution shall be a superintendent, a deputy, chaplains and such other officers as the commissioner may find necessary; provided, that there shall be employed therein such additional officers as the commissioner shall consider necessary to comply with section thirty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty-nine.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 14 - Superintendent; Powers and Duties

Section 14. Subject to rules and regulations established by the commissioner and according to law, the superintendent shall be responsible for the custody and control of all prisoners in the correctional institution, and shall govern and employ them pursuant to their respective sentences until their sentences have been performed or they are otherwise discharged by due course of law, or they are removed by the commissioner, and shall also have the charge and custody of the institution and of the land, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock, provisions, and all other property belonging to it or within its precincts. The superintendent shall establish and maintain at each correctional institution of the commonwealth a safe and secure place for the storage of firearms carried by uniformed correctional officers of said institutions to and from their place of employment.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 15 - Superintendent and Deputies; Residences

Section 15. The superintendent, and his deputy, shall reside constantly within the precincts of the correctional institution, unless otherwise authorized by the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 16 - Female Prisoners; Commitment to Designated Facilities; Alcohol Treatment Facility; Separate Awaiting Trial Unit

Section 16. All females convicted of crimes in the courts of the commonwealth and sentenced to imprisonment or otherwise committed to the custody of the department shall be committed to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, or to such other correctional facility or facilities as the commissioner may from time to time designate as appropriate for the purpose.  The department shall maintain at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, a facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics, subject to the approval of the department of public health under the provisions of chapter one hundred and eleven B.  The department shall maintain at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, a separate awaiting trial unit for females, to which female prisoners held for trial in accordance with section forty-two of chapter two hundred and seventy-six, may be transferred by the sheriff upon approval of the commissioner of correction if suitable facilities are not available in the county jail of the court of jurisdiction.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 17 - Burial of Female Prisoners

Section 17. The commissioner may, in behalf of the commonwealth hold not more than one acre of land within the town of Sherborn which may be used for the burial of prisoners who die in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 18 - Bridgewater State Hospital; Medical Director

Section 18. The Bridgewater state hospital shall be part of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater. The commissioner, with the approval of the commissioner of mental health, shall appoint a physician as medical director of the Bridgewater state hospital. The medical director shall have the care of the inmates thereof and govern them in accordance with rules and regulations approved by the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 19 - Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater; Commitment; Alcoholism

Section 19. No person shall be committed to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, for the treatment of alcoholism, except in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and eleven B and chapter one hundred and twenty-three.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 20 - Contracts on Account of Correctional Institutions; Suits; Referees

Section 20. All contracts on account of any correctional institution of the commonwealth, except those required to be made by the state purchasing agent, shall be made by the commissioner in writing. The commissioner and his successors in office may sue or be sued upon any contract made in accordance with this chapter. No such suit shall abate by reason of said office becoming vacant, but the successor of the commissioner, pending such suit, may, and, upon motion of the adverse party and notice, shall, prosecute or defend it. The commissioner may submit any controversy relative to any such contract, or any action pending on any such contract, to the final determination of arbitrators or referees appointed by the commissioner and the adverse party and approved by the commissioner of administration.
MA Gen L ch 125 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 125 - Correctional Institutions of the Commonwealth|Section 21 - Bills for Supplies and Services

Section 21. At the time supplies for any of the said institutions are delivered, bills of the quantity and price of such supplies shall be taken and compared at the institution. Bills for all services rendered shall be taken and checked in like manner. Bills found to be correct shall be entered in the accounts of the institution, and appropriate notice of bills found to be incorrect shall be given so that any errors may be corrected.
MA Gen L ch 126 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 126 - Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County Industrial Farms|Section 1 - County Commissioners; Inspection of Prisons; Duties

Section 1. The county commissioners shall be inspectors of the prisons in their counties. They shall twice in each year, at intervals of not exceeding eight months, themselves or by a committee of two of their members, visit all the prisons in their county, and fully examine into everything relative to the government, discipline and police thereof; and as soon as may be after each inspection, the committee shall make and subscribe a detailed report to the commissioners of the condition of each prison as to health, cleanliness and discipline at the time of inspection, the number of prisoners confined there within the preceding six months or since the last inspection, the causes of confinement, the number of prisoners usually confined in one room, the distinction, if any, usually observed in the treatment of the different classes of prisoners, the punishments inflicted, any evils or defects in the construction, discipline or management of such prisons, the names of prisoners who have been discharged or pardoned or who have died or escaped, and any violation or neglect of law relative to such prisons, with the causes, if known, of the violation or neglect.
MA Gen L ch 126 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 126 - Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County Industrial Farms|Section 2 - Exhibition of Prison Books, Documents and Accounts; Examination of Prison Officers

Section 2. When the commissioners or any of them visit any of said prisons, the sheriff, superintendent, keeper or other officer in charge thereof shall admit them, when required, into every apartment of such prison, exhibit all books, precepts, documents, accounts and papers relative to the affairs of the prison or to the detention or confinement of any person therein, which may be required, and give such aid as they request in the performance of their duties. The commissioners or their committee may examine on oath, administered by one of them, either by written interrogatories, to be answered in writing and subscribed, or otherwise as they may direct, any officer, keeper or other person relative to the affairs or management of any prison, and they may also converse with any prisoner apart, and without the presence of any officer or keeper.
MA Gen L ch 126 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 126 - Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County Industrial Farms|Section 3 - Violation of Laws Relative to Prisons; Notice

Section 3. If it appears to the commissioners, from the report of their committee or otherwise, that any law relative to prisons has been violated or neglected in their county, they shall forthwith give notice thereof to the district attorney.
MA Gen L ch 126 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 126 - Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County Industrial Farms|Section 4 - Jails; Purposes

Section 4. Jails shall be used for the detention of persons charged with crime and committed for trial, committed to secure their attendance as witnesses upon the trial of criminal causes, committed pursuant to a sentence upon conviction of crime or for any cause authorized by law, or detained or committed by the courts of the United States. Jails may also be used for the detention of persons arrested without a warrant and not admitted to bail pending appearance before the district court, provided that no adequately equipped lock-up established in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-four of chapter forty is available for the detention of such person.
MA Gen L ch 126 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 126 - Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County Industrial Farms|Section 5 - Confinement

Section 5. If there are several jails in a county, the sheriff may cause the prisoners to be confined in any of them.
MA Gen L ch 126 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 126 - Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation, and County Industrial Farms|Section 6 - Reimbursement of Sheriff for Damages for Escape

Section 6. If a prisoner escapes by reason of the insufficiency of the jail, whereby the sheriff is made liable to a party at whose suit the prisoner was committed, or to whose use any forfeiture was adjudged against him, the county shall reimburse the amount recovered by such party of the sheriff on account of the escape.