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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 7 - Voluntary Admissions; Withdrawal; Notice; Examination

Section 7. Any person retained in a facility under the provisions of section six shall be free to leave such facility at any time, and any parent or guardian who requested the admission of such person may withdraw such person at any time, upon giving written notice to the superintendent. The superintendent may restrict the right to leave or withdraw to normal working hours and weekdays and, in his discretion, may require persons or the parents or guardians of persons to give three days written notice of their intention to leave or withdraw. Where persons or their parents or guardians are required to give three days notice of intention to leave or withdraw, an examination of such persons may be conducted to determine their clinical progress, their suitability for discharge and to investigate other aspects of their case including their legal competency and their family, home or community situation in the interest of discharging them from the facility.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 9 - Mailing Privileges; Visitation Rights; Legal and Civil Rights

Section 9. A person with an intellectual disability in the care of the department shall be provided with stationery and postage in reasonable amounts and shall have free and unrestricted mailing privileges.
A person with an intellectual disability shall have the right to be visited at all reasonable times by anyone unless he is ill or incapacitated and the superintendent determines that such a visit would be unreasonable. A statement of the reasons for any such denial of visiting rights shall be entered in the treatment record of said person.
In addition to the rights specified above and any other rights guaranteed by law, a person with an intellectual disability in the care of the department shall have the following legal and civil rights: to wear his own clothes, to keep and use his own personal possessions including toilet articles, to keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his own money for canteen expenses and small purchases, to have access to individual storage space for his private use, reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, to refuse shock treatment, to refuse lobotomy, and any other rights specified in the regulations of the department; provided, however, that any of these rights may be denied for good cause by the superintendent or his designee and a statement of the reasons for any such denial entered in the treatment record of such person.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 10 - Legal Capacity of Persons Admitted or Committed

Section 10. No person shall be deemed to be incompetent to manage his affairs, to contract, to hold professional or occupational or vehicle operators licenses or to make a will solely by reason of his admission or commitment in any capacity to the treatment or care of the department or to any public or private facility, nor shall departmental regulations restrict such rights.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 11 - Guardian or Conservator; Appointment

Section 11. In addition to the periodic review under section four of this chapter, whenever the superintendent has reason to believe that a person who has been under the care of the department as a resident for more than six months, who is not under guardianship or conservatorship, is unable to care for his property, he shall promptly notify said person's nearest living relative and recommend that the necessary steps be taken for the appointment of a guardian or a conservator.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 13 - Administration of Estate of Deceased Resident

Section 13. If a resident of any facility dies leaving an estate which does not exceed fifteen thousand dollars in value, the superintendent shall notify the nearest living relative of such resident of such fact, and if, after the expiration of thirty days from the date of such notice, no petition for administration of said estate has been filed, the department may provide for the administration of said estate under the provisions of section sixteen of chapter one hundred and ninety-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 14 - Violent or Unnatural Death of Residents; Notice to District Attorney

Section 14. Upon the death of any person confined to an institution under the control of the department, the superintendent of such institution shall, if he is of the opinion that the death may have resulted from violence or unnatural causes, immediately notify the district attorney for the district in which the death occurred, giving him the name and address of the person who died and the cause of death.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 15 - Instruction and Education; Work Programs; Sale of Work Products

Section 15. (a) In cooperation with other state departments and agencies, the department shall cause to be given to persons under its care instruction and education as may be appropriate for such persons to undertake, especially persons who are unable to engage in programs for resident-trainees.
(b) In cooperation with other state departments and agencies the department shall cause to be established at each facility programs for persons under its care who would be assisted by performing work in or about such facility. The department shall pay or credit such trainee for work performed by him under said program in accordance with payment schedules established by the department in its regulations and approved by the commissioner of administration.
(c) The department may permit the sale of the work products of any person under its care on such conditions as it shall determine. The department shall also determine the price for which said goods may be sold, and the portion, if any, of the proceeds of each sale which shall be returned to the commonwealth to reimburse it for its costs in connection therewith. The balance of the proceeds of any such sale shall be held in trust in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (a) of section twelve.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 16 - Charges for Care of Persons in Facilities

Section 16. The department may make charges for the care of any person in its facilities. To the extent that any person in its facilities is eligible for third party payment of charges for care, the department shall make said charges for care at rates established by the executive office of health and human services or a governmental unit designated by the executive office. To the extent that third party payment is not available, or is not sufficient to pay said charges, the charges may be recovered from said person, or from any person with a legal obligation to support the person, or from the parent of an adult with a disability or disabilities; provided, however, that said person shall be entitled to retain one thousand dollars in cash or personal property; and provided, further, that the department shall make adjustments to the charges based upon said person's individual circumstances; and provided, further, that all charges recovered from the parent of an adult child with a disability or disabilities, shall be recovered in accordance with procedures developed as set forth in section one hundred and forty-two of chapter one hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety. If a superintendent of a facility for persons with an intellectual disability holds the funds of a resident in a dependent funds account, the amount recoverable from the resident which would be paid from the dependent funds shall be deferred until the death of the resident, at which time the accumulated deferred payment shall be owed to the department by the estate of the resident; provided, however that this shall not prevent the department from recovering charges without deferral from any of the resident's funds which are held outside of a dependent funds account.
The department shall not recover charges from a resident of a facility for persons with an intellectual disability until the status of the dependent and independent funds of said resident has been reviewed by the department pursuant to section four of this chapter.
The department also shall establish, by regulation, a system of charges for care in programs funded by or under a contract with the department which is consistent with the provisions of this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123b - Mental Retardation › Section 17 - Records; Inspection

Section 17. The department shall keep records of the admission, treatment and periodic review of all persons admitted to facilities under its supervision. Such records shall be private and not open to public inspection except (1) upon proper judicial order whether or not in connection with pending judicial proceedings, (2) that the commissioner shall allow the attorney of a patient or resident to inspect records of said patient if requested to do so by the patient, resident or attorney, and (3) that the commissioner may permit inspection or disclosure when in the best interest of the patient or resident as provided in the rules and regulations of the department. This section shall govern the patient records of the department notwithstanding any other provision of law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 2 - Deputy Commissioners; Duties

Section 2. Subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner for institutional services shall be responsible for planning and directing the efficient administration of each correctional institution of the commonwealth by the officers and employees of the institution.
Subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner for classification and treatment shall be responsible for planning and directing the rehabilitation services of all the correctional institutions of the commonwealth, including the classification, medical, educational, industrial, vocational and recreational programs of each such institution.
Subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner for personnel and training shall be responsible for planning and directing departmental procedures for the appointment, assignment, transfer, training, supervision, discipline and compensation of officers and employees of the department and the correctional institutions of the commonwealth.
Subject to the supervision and control of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner for community services shall be responsible for planning and directing community programs and services provided to committed offenders.
Each of the said deputy commissioners shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 5 - Reports to Governor

Section 5. The commissioner shall, at least once in six months, report in writing to the governor the condition of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth, and shall so report to the governor when, in his judgment, the conditions of administration, financial management or discipline in any of said institutions require executive action.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 6 - Annual Reports to General Court

Section 6. He shall make an annual report setting forth fully and in detail the actual condition on November thirtieth of each correctional institution of the commonwealth, and on December thirty-first of each jail and house of correction, the number of inmates in each, such statistics from the reports required by section eight as will show the results of criminal prosecutions, and such statistics from the reports required by section nine, and by section one hundred of chapter two hundred and seventy-six, as he considers proper. The report shall state the industries which have been carried on in the institutions named in section fifty-one of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven during the year, the number of prisoners employed in each, the greatest and smallest number thereof at any one time, the kind and quantity of goods manufactured, the amount thereof sold to such institutions and elsewhere, and the prices received therefor. The report shall include the reports made to him by the officers of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth, of the other penal institutions, and of the parole board.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 6a - Report on the Use of Facilities of the Department of Corrections and of Sheriff's Offices

Section 6A. (a) The department of correction, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Sheriffs Association, Inc., shall report on the use of all facilities of the department and of each sheriff's office during the periods of January 1 to June 30, inclusive, and July 1 to December 31, inclusive, of each year. The reports shall be due not later than 30 days after the close of each period. Each report shall include, but not be limited to: (i) an inventory of all buildings that are used or have been used to house inmates since January 1, 2018; (ii) a catalog of changes in use or purpose for all housing units and buildings during the preceding period; (iii) all housing units in each building and the original design capacity of each; (iv) all cells or rooms in each housing unit and the number of beds in each cell or room; (v) a brief description of the housing unit including, but not limited to, the custody level and function of the unit; (vi) the average daily amount of time offered out of cell for recreation, programs, education or employment to inmates in each housing unit during the preceding period; (vii) the average inmate count in each housing unit for the preceding period; (viii) an inventory of all buildings in all correctional facilities, regardless of whether the building has ever been occupied by inmates, with a brief description of each building and a statement as to whether the building is used for housing; provided, however, that if the building is used for housing, the report shall include whether it is occupied, unoccupied but available for future habitation or no longer considered habitable; and (ix) the last date on which an inmate was housed in a housing unit or building that does not currently house inmates; provided, however, that if multiple housing units in the same facility are categorized in the same way as to the features outlined in clauses (v) and (vi), the housing units may be aggregated for the purpose of inmate count reporting under clause (vii) and the number of housing units aggregated shall be reported; and provided further, that for reporting under other clauses above in which buildings or housing units are referred to individually, their official names need not be used.
(b) The report shall be submitted to the executive office for administration and finance, the senate and house committees on ways and means, the joint committee on the judiciary and the joint committee on public safety and homeland security. The report shall be published in document form and downloadable spreadsheet form on the website of the department of correction. The Massachusetts Sheriffs Association, Inc. shall furnish all data necessary for this report to the department of correction.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 8 - Reports of Criminal Cases by Clerks of Courts

Section 8. Clerks of courts shall annually, on or before January fifteenth, make reports to the commissioner of all criminal cases commenced in the superior court in the several counties during the year ending on December thirty-first, and of all criminal cases entered therein on appeal during such time. Clerks of district courts shall annually, at the same time and for the same period, make like reports of criminal cases in which such courts have exercised jurisdiction, and shall state whether such jurisdiction was final or otherwise. Blank forms for such reports shall be prepared and furnished by the commissioner. Whoever refuses or neglects to make the report required of him by this section shall forfeit two hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 9 - Monthly Reports of Arrests

Section 9. The police commissioner of Boston, city marshals or chiefs of police and every officer making an arrest in a town not having a city marshal or chief of police shall make monthly reports to the commissioner of the number of persons of each sex arrested in their several towns. Such reports shall be classified according to offences. An officer who refuses or neglects to make such report shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVIII - Prisons, Imprisonment, Paroles and Pardons › Chapter 124 - Powers and Duties of the Department of Correction › Section 10 - Corporate Status of Department for Purpose of Grants, Gifts or Bequests; Site Selection for New Facilities; Title to Property

Section 10. The department shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking, holding and administering in trust for the commonwealth any grant, gift or bequest made either to the commonwealth or to it for the use of persons under its control in any correctional facility of the department or for expenditure upon any work which the department is authorized to undertake. The department may accept, receive and use money, goods or services given for the general purposes of the department by the federal government or from any other source, public or private, and may comply with such conditions and enter into such agreements upon such covenants, terms and conditions as the department deems necessary or desirable, provided the agreement is not in conflict with state law.
The department, subject to the approval of the governor, shall select the site of any new state correctional facility and any land to be taken or purchased by the commonwealth for the purposes of any new or existing state correctional facility. If any land or property is taken or purchased by the department, title shall be taken in the name of the commonwealth.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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 7 - Return of List of Prisoners to Superior Court

Section 7. The jailers of the county shall, at the opening of each session of the superior court for criminal business, return to the court a list of all prisoners in their custody, specifying the causes for which and the persons by whom they were committed, and produce and exhibit therewith, for the inspection of the court, their calendars of prisoners, and return a like list of the persons committed during the session of the court, so that the court may take cognizance and make deliverance according to law of the prisoners committed for crimes within its jurisdiction. Jailers who neglect to make such reports or to exhibit their calendars shall be punished by a fine at the discretion of the court. In the event that the commonwealth constructs a house or houses of correction in a county, then such county shall no longer be responsible for providing for the structure of such facility or facilities, but shall continue to be required to maintain and operate such facility; provided, however, that in any county which has been ordered by a court to construct a new house of correction, state assumption of the responsibility to provide such structure shall occur when the state appropriates funds therefor and such county has complied with any conditions attached to such appropriation, if any.
2023 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 8 - Establishment of Houses of Correction

Section 8. The county commissioners in each county, except Dukes, shall at the expense of the county provide a house or houses of correction, suitably and efficiently ventilated, with convenient yards, workshops and other suitable accommodations adjoining or appurtenant thereto, for the safe keeping, correction, government and employment of offenders legally committed thereto by the courts and magistrates of the commonwealth or of the United States.
2023 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 8a - Superintendents

Section 8A. The chief administrative officer of a house of correction shall be the superintendent. The superintendent, and any deputy superintendents, shall be appointed by the sheriff, or in the case of Suffolk county, by the penal commissioner of the city of Boston, and shall serve at his pleasure, and shall not be subject to the provisions of sections nine A and nine B of chapter thirty, or chapter thirty-one.
2023 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 9 - Houses of Correction Yards; Fences

Section 9. The yards shall be of sufficient extent for the convenient employment of the persons confined therein, and shall be enclosed by fences of sufficient height and strength to prevent escapes and to prevent all persons who are without from access to or communication with any person confined therein. If such house of correction is not provided, the jail or a part thereof may be used for that purpose; but if so used it shall be provided with a sufficient yard, so enclosed.
2023 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 9a - Uniforms

Section 9A. Officers and employees of each county penal institution required to wear uniforms shall wear while on duty uniforms prescribed by the sheriff of the county, which shall be furnished at the expense of said county; provided, that expenditures for the same are authorized by the county commissioners.
2023 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 11 - Rules for the Management of House of Correction; Examination of Accounts; Records

Section 11. The county commissioners of the several counties and the penal institutions commissioner of Boston shall cause the rules established for the management of the house of correction and for the government of the prisoners therein to be strictly observed, shall examine all accounts of the master relative to the expenses of the institution, and keep a record of their official proceedings relative thereto.
2023 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 12 - Sheriff's Report to Superior Court

Section 12. The sheriff shall report to the superior court, at each session for criminal business, the number of prisoners sentenced to labor in houses of correction in the county employed, and also the number not employed with the reasons why they are not employed.