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Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Public Justice - Chapter 268, Section 19

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Suffering or consenting to an escape from a penal institution.

Section 19. An officer or other person, who, being employed in any penal institution, voluntarily suffers a convict confined therein to escape, or in any way consents to such escape, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.

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