Massachusetts General Laws
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...

Section 2 - Exhibition of Prison Books, Documents and Accounts; Examination of Prison Officers - Section 2. When the commissioners or any of them visit...

Section 3 - Violation of Laws Relative to Prisons; Notice - Section 3. If it appears to the commissioners, from the...

Section 4 - Jails; Purposes - Section 4. Jails shall be used for the detention of...

Section 5 - Confinement - Section 5. If there are several jails in a county,...

Section 6 - Reimbursement of Sheriff for Damages for Escape - Section 6. If a prisoner escapes by reason of the...

Section 7 - Return of List of Prisoners to Superior Court - Section 7. The jailers of the county shall, at the...

Section 8 - Establishment of Houses of Correction - Section 8. The county commissioners in each county, except Dukes,...

Section 8a - Superintendents - Section 8A. The chief administrative officer of a house of...

Section 9 - Houses of Correction Yards; Fences - Section 9. The yards shall be of sufficient extent for...

Section 9a - Uniforms - Section 9A. Officers and employees of each county penal institution...

Section 10 - Execution of Sentence - Section 10. A sentence to a house of correction shall...

Section 11 - Rules for the Management of House of Correction; Examination of Accounts; Records - Section 11. The county commissioners of the several counties and...

Section 12 - Sheriff's Report to Superior Court - Section 12. The sheriff shall report to the superior court,...

Section 16 - Custody and Control of Jails and Houses of Correction; Jailer; Assistants; Bond - Section 16. The sheriff shall have custody and control of...

Section 17 - Rent From Jailers and Keepers of Houses of Correction - Section 17. No sheriff shall receive any rent or emolument...

Section 18 - Compensation and Duties of Officers and Assistants - Section 18. The compensation of all officers, assistants and employees...

Section 18a - Injuries to Jail or House of Correction Employees; Compensation - Section 18A. An employee in a jail or house of...

Section 21 - Abstract of Mittimus Upon Commitment of Female - Section 21. The keeper of a jail or master of...

Section 22 - Burial of Deceased Prisoners - Section 22. If a prisoner dies in the jail or...

Section 23 - Delivery of Prisoners to Sheriff's Successor - Section 23. Upon the expiration of the term of office...

Section 24 - Death of Sheriff; Temporary Custody and Control of Jail; Bond - Section 24. Upon the death of a sheriff, the jailer,...

Section 25 - Care of Jail or House of Correction - Section 25. The keeper of each jail and the superintendent...

Section 26 - Removal of Prisoners in Case of Disease - Section 26. If disease breaks out in a jail or...

Section 27 - Removal of Prisoners in Case of Danger From Fire or Bombing - Section 27. If a jail or other county prison or...

Section 28 - Supplies for Jails and Houses of Correction - Section 28. The county commissioners shall, except in Suffolk county,...

Section 29 - Expense of Keeping and Maintaining Convicts - Section 29. The expense of keeping and maintaining convicts sentenced...

Section 30 - Advances for Expenses - Section 30. Superintendents and keepers of jails and houses of...

Section 31 - Application for Advance Expenses; Approval - Section 31. Every officer applying for such an advance shall...

Section 32 - Account of Expenditures - Section 32. Every such officer shall within thirty days after...

Section 33 - Fuel, Bedding and Clothing for Prisoners - Section 33. The keeper of the jail and the superintendent...

Section 34 - Direction to Furnish Specific Rations; Conformance Thereto - Section 34. If the commissioners, or the mayor of Boston,...

Section 35 - County Industrial Farms; Acquisition, Reclamation, Improvement and Sale of Land - Section 35. The county commissioners of any county may, subject...

Section 36 - Erection of Temporary Buildings on County Industrial Farm; Management - Section 36. Said commissioners may erect on said land such...

Section 37 - Removal of Prisoners to Industrial Farms; Custody - Section 37. On the request of said commissioners, the sheriff...

Section 38 - Borrowing Money to Meet Expenses; Bonds or Notes - Section 38. To meet the expense of acquiring land in...

Section 39 - Payment of Loan - Section 39. The county commissioners, at the time of authorizing...

Section 40 - Recording and Reporting of Data on Population of Jails and Houses of Correction - Section 40. The sheriff shall record, without limitation, the following...