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MA Gen L ch 127 § 96a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 96a - Disposition of Unclaimed Money of Former Prisoners; Claim

Section 96A. So much of any funds as represent monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, inmates who have died or have been discharged or have escaped from any correctional institution of the commonwealth, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than two years, shall be paid by the superintendent of such institution to the state treasurer to be held subject to be paid to the person establishing a lawful right thereto. After six years from the date when any such monies were paid to the state treasurer the same or any balance thereof then remaining in his hands may be used as a part of the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person may, however, establish his claim after the expiration of the six years above mentioned, and any claim so established shall be paid from the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person claiming a right to money deposited with the state treasurer under this section may establish the same by a petition to the probate court; provided, that in cases where claims amount to less than fifty dollars, the claims may be presented to the comptroller, who shall examine the same and allow and certify for payment such as may be proved to his satisfaction.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 96b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 96b - Disposition of Unclaimed Property of Former Prisoners; Sale; Proceeds

Section 96B. Property belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former inmates of any correctional institution of the commonwealth, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than one year, shall be disposed of as hereinafter provided, by the superintendent of the institution and a representative of the department of correction designated by the commissioner, acting as a special board for said purpose, but only if all known next of kin of the former prisoner shall have been notified in writing by said superintendent. The board shall ascertain whether the property has any sale value, and, if so, shall solicit from at least three reputable dealers in like property offers for the purchase thereof, and shall sell the same to the dealer offering the highest price. The proceeds of such sale shall be disposed of as provided in section ninety-six A. The board may dispose of such of said property as, in its opinion, has no sale value, or any of said property for which no offer, solicited as aforesaid, has been received, in such manner as it may deem proper. A complete record of each transaction hereunder shall be made and signed by both members of the board and filed with the other records at such institution relating to the former prisoner whose property shall have been disposed of as aforesaid.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 97 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 97 - Transfers From and to Correctional Institutions; Approval

Section 97. The commissioner may transfer any sentenced prisoner from one correctional institution of the commonwealth to another, and with the approval of the sheriff of the county from any such institution except a prisoner serving a life sentence to any jail or house of correction, or a sentenced prisoner from any jail or house of correction to any such institution except the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction, or from any jail or house of correction to any other jail or house of correction. Prisoners so removed shall be subject to the terms of their original sentences and to the provisions of law governing parole from the correctional institutions of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 97a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 97a - Transfer of State Prisoners to Federal Institutions; Reciprocal Agreements

Section 97A. The commissioner may, with the approval of the appropriate officials of the federal government, transfer any prisoner sentenced to state prison to any available or appropriate correctional institution maintained and supervised by the federal government within the confines of continental United States. The commissioner may, subject to the approval of the governor, enter into reciprocal agreements, contracts or other mutual plans to accomplish such transfers.  Prisoners so removed shall be subject to the terms of their original sentences to the state prison and to the provisions of law governing discharge and parole from the correctional institutions of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 97b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 97b - Treaties; Transfer of Prisoners to Other Countries

Section 97B. If a treaty in effect between the United States and a foreign country provides for the transfer or exchange of a prisoner to the country of which said prisoner is a citizen or national, the commissioner may, with the written consent of such prisoner, subject to the approval of the governor, and in accordance with the terms of such treaty, consent to the transfer or exchange of any such prisoner and take any other action necessary to initiate the participation of the commonwealth in such treaty.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 111a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 111a - Removal of Defective Delinquents

Section 111A. He may remove any person committed to a department for defective delinquents established at any institution under the department of correction under section one hundred and seventeen of chapter one hundred and twenty-three, from such department to a like department at any other institution under the department of correction.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 113 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 113 - Removal of Prisoners Convicted and Sentenced by United States Court

Section 113. The commissioner may remove from one jail or house of correction to another, or to any correctional institution of the commonwealth a prisoner convicted and sentenced by a United States court and thereafter transferred by the Attorney General of the United States to such jail or house of correction.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 115 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 115 - Removal of Prisoners From One Jail to Another by Sheriff

Section 115. The sheriff in any county, except Suffolk, may remove prisoners from one jail to another or from a jail to a house of correction or from a house of correction to a jail in his own county.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 116 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 116 - Application of Original Sentence of Prisoner Removed or Returned

Section 116. A prisoner who is removed or returned under any provision of sections ninety-seven to one hundred and fifteen, inclusive, shall be held in the place of imprisonment to which he is so removed or returned under the terms of his original sentence, unless sooner discharged, and the period for which he is so removed shall be reckoned as a part of the term of his imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 117 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 117 - Placement in Hospital or Medical Facility for Medical, Dental, or Similar Professional Treatment

Section 117. Whenever the physician of any state correctional facility certifies that any prisoner held therein requires medical, dental or other similar professional treatment which cannot safely or properly be given in such state correctional facility or the hospital at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk, the commissioner may temporarily place such person in an appropriate hospital or medical facility to receive such treatment.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 117a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 117a - Temporary Placement of Prisoners in Hospital or Medical Facility

Section 117A. Whenever the physician of any jail or house of correction certifies that any prisoner held therein requires medical, dental or other similar professional treatment which is not available in such jail or house of correction, the sheriff or, in the case of the house of correction in Suffolk county, the penal institutions commissioner of the city of Boston may temporarily place such prisoner in a hospital or medical facility to receive such treatment.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 119 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 119 - Hospital Confinement as Term of Sentence

Section 119. Any prisoner placed in a hospital or medical facility under section one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and seventeen A or one hundred and eighteen shall, during his absence from prison or the jail or house of correction, be considered as in the custody of the officer having charge of the prison, jail or house of correction, and the time of confinement in said hospital or medical facility shall be considered as part of the term of sentence.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 120 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 120 - Order of Removal; Transfer of Mittimuses and Processes With Prisoner

Section 120. Every order of removal of the commissioner shall be signed by him or his designee and shall be directed to the officer by whom it is to be executed. All mittimuses, processes and other official papers by which a prisoner is committed or held, or attested copies thereof, shall at the time of such removal be transferred, with the order of removal, to the institution to which the prisoner is removed, and be kept therein as if he had been originally committed thereto; but if he is returned to the place from which he was removed, they shall be returned with him.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 121 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 121 - Execution of Order of Removal

Section 121. An officer authorized to serve criminal process may execute an order of removal or return issued under this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 123 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 123 - Expense of Removal

Section 123. The expense of removing a prisoner from one jail or house of correction to another shall be paid by the county from which he is removed. The expense of removing a prisoner to or from any of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth by order of the commissioner shall be paid upon bills approved by him, out of the appropriation for the removal of prisoners, except that when a removal of a prisoner is made under section one hundred and seventeen or one hundred and eighteen, the expense thereof shall be borne by the institution from which the prisoner is removed. The expense of removing a prisoner to the Bridgewater state hospital or to a state hospital shall be paid by the prison from which the prisoner is removed. The expense of removing, under section one hundred and seventeen or one hundred and eighteen, a person under commitment to a department for defective delinquents, shall be paid by the institution from which such person is removed; and all hospital expenses incurred under either of said sections in connection with a prisoner or a person under commitment as aforesaid shall be paid by the prison or institution from which such person is removed.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 124 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 124 - Expense of Support of Prisoner Transferred From Correctional Institution to Jail or House of Correction

Section 124. The expense of supporting a prisoner transferred from a correctional institution of the commonwealth to a jail or house of correction shall be paid by the commonwealth, if the prisoner was not originally sentenced from the county where such jail or house of correction is situated; but before payment the bills therefor shall be approved by the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 125 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 125 - Expense of Support of Prisoner Transferred From One County to Another

Section 125. The expense of supporting a prisoner transferred from a jail or house of correction in one county to another, removed from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater to a house of correction, or sentenced to a jail or house of correction in a county other than that in which he was convicted, may be paid by the county where he was sentenced. If the amount to be paid cannot be agreed upon by the county commissioners of the two counties, it may be determined by the superior court sitting in either county.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 126 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 126 - Expense of Support of Prisoner Removed From Jail or House of Correction to Massachusetts Correctional Institution

Section 126. The expense of supporting a prisoner removed from a jail or house of correction to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater shall be paid to the commonwealth by the county from which he is removed, and the amount thereof shall be determined by the commissioner. The expense of supporting a sick prisoner removed to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater from a jail or house of correction, not exceeding three dollars and twenty-five cents a week, shall be paid by the county from which he is removed.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 128 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 128 - Issuance of Parole Permits

Section 128. Subject to other provisions of law, parole permits, in this chapter also referred to as permits to be at liberty, may be granted by the parole board to prisoners in state and county correctional institutions serving sentences or total aggregate sentences of sixty days or more, or serving sentences suspended in part pursuant to sections one or one A of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, or a special sentence of imprisonment imposed pursuant to section six A of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, having a committed portion of sixty days or more.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 129b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 129b - Confinement While Awaiting Trial; Reduction of Sentence

Section 129B. The sentence of any prisoner in any correctional institution of the commonwealth or in any house of correction or jail, who was held in custody awaiting trial shall be reduced by the number of days spent by him in confinement prior to such sentence and while awaiting trial, unless the court in imposing such sentence had already deducted therefrom the time during which such prisoner had been confined while awaiting trial.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 129c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 129c - Confinement in Prison Camp; Deduction of Sentence for Good Conduct

Section 129C. For the satisfactory conduct of a prisoner confined in a prison camp, the commissioner may grant, in addition to the deductions of sentence provided under section one hundred and twenty-nine, a further deduction of sentence of not more than two and one half days for each month while confined in a prison camp. Such further deduction of sentence shall be added to any deduction to which the prisoner is entitled under section one hundred and twenty-nine for computing the minimum term of sentence for release on parole as authorized by section one hundred and thirty-three, or for reducing the term of imprisonment by deduction from the maximum term for which he may be held under his sentence or sentences. A prisoner whose term of imprisonment is reduced shall receive from the commissioner a certificate of discharge on the date which has been determined by such additional deduction from the maximum term of his sentence or sentences.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 130a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 130a - Issuance of Certificate of Termination of Sentence

Section 130A. The parole board may, by a majority vote of all of the members, issue to a parolee under its supervision a certificate of termination of sentence, provided that in the judgment of the board such termination of sentence shall be in the public interest; and provided, further, that in no case will such certificate of termination of sentence be issued unless the parolee has completed at least one year of satisfactory parole; provided, however, that the parole board, by a majority vote of all its members, may grant a certificate of termination if the parolee has successfully completed the so-called special incarceration boot camp program and subsequently completed at least four months of satisfactory parole. The parole board shall furnish to the commissioner of correction and to the judge who pronounced sentence upon the parolee a copy of such certificate of termination of sentence.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 130c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 130c - Compliance Credits to Reduce Period of Time Parolee Subject to Jurisdiction of Parole Board; Rescission of Credits

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 72, Sec. 17.]  Section 130C. (a) For the satisfactory conduct of a parolee under the supervision of the parole board who is serving a sentence to state prison, the chairman of the parole board or the chairman's designee may grant compliance credits of up to a maximum monthly total of 15 days; provided, however, that no compliance credits may be granted to a person serving a mandatory minimum sentence until such person shall have served the mandatory minimum term. Any compliance credits so granted and not rescinded pursuant to subsection (b) shall reduce the period of time that a parolee is subject to the jurisdiction of the parole board under section 130.  (b) The parole board shall issue regulations governing the rescission of compliance credits for violation of the terms and conditions of parole.  (c) The award or rescission of credits pursuant to this section shall not be the subject of judicial review.  (d) This section shall not apply to a prisoner who has been sentenced for life.  (e) This section shall not apply to a parolee who received a parole permit pursuant to section 130B.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 131 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 131 - Giving of Parolee Written Copy of Terms and Conditions of Parole

Section 131. The parole board shall, in releasing a prisoner on parole, specify in writing the terms and conditions of his parole, and a copy of such terms and conditions shall be given to the parolee. A violation of such terms and conditions shall render the parolee liable to arrest and re-imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 127 § 131a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons|Chapter 127 - Officers and Inmates of Penal and Reformatory Institutions. Paroles and Pardons|Section 131a - Notice to State and Local Police of Terms and Conditions of Parole Permits

Section 131A. Not less than twenty-four hours prior to the effective date of any parole permit the parole board shall notify in writing the department of state police and the police department in the city or town to which the parolee will return of such parole, specifying the terms and conditions thereof.