General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 126 Jails, Houses of Correction and Reformation,
and County Industrial Farms
- Massachusetts General Laws - County commissioners; inspection of prisons; duties - Chapter 126, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exhibition of prison books, documents and accounts; examination of prison officers - Chapter 126, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of laws relative to prisons; notice - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jails; purposes - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Confinement - Chapter 126, Section 5
If there are several jails in a county, the sheriff may cause the prisoners to be confined in any of them.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of sheriff for damages for escape - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return of list of prisoners to superior court - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of houses of correction - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendents - Chapter 126, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Houses of correction yards; fences - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uniforms - Chapter 126, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of sentence - Chapter 126, Section 10
A sentence to a house of correction shall be executed in any house of correction in the county.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules; examination of accounts; records - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sheriff’s report to superior court - Chapter 126, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 27 - Chapter 126, Section 13 to 15
Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Custody and control of jails and houses of correction; jailer; assistants; bond - Chapter 126, Section 16
The sheriff shall have custody and control of the jails in his county, and, except in Suffolk county, of the houses of correction therein, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rent from jailers and keepers of houses of correction - Chapter 126, Section 17
No sheriff shall receive any rent or emolument from the jailers and keepers of the houses of correction for the use and occupation of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation and duties of officers and assistants - Chapter 126, Section 18
The compensation of all officers, assistants and employees of jails and houses of correction shall be paid by their respective counties, and shall be in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Injuries to jail or house of correction employees; compensation - Chapter 126, Section 18A
An employee in a jail or house of correction of a county who, while in the performance of duty, receives bodily injuries resulting from acts...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 19 - Chapter 126, Section 19 20
Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abstract of mittimus upon commitment of female - Chapter 126, Section 21
The keeper of a jail or master of a house of correction to which a female has been committed shall forthwith transmit to the commissioner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Burial of deceased prisoners - Chapter 126, Section 22
If a prisoner dies in the jail or house of correction, the sheriff or keeper shall, except as provided in chapter one hundred and thirteen,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery of prisoners to sheriff’s successor - Chapter 126, Section 23
Upon the expiration of the term of office of a sheriff, or upon his resignation or removal, he shall deliver to his successor all the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of sheriff; temporary custody and control of jail; bond - Chapter 126, Section 24
Upon the death of a sheriff, the jailer, superintendent or keeper appointed by him shall continue in office and retain the custody and control of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Care of jail or house of correction - Chapter 126, Section 25
The keeper of each jail and the superintendent of each house of correction shall, at the county’s expense, cause it to be constantly kept in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of prisoners in case of disease - Chapter 126, Section 26
If disease breaks out in a jail or other county prison, which, in the opinion of the inspectors of the prison, may endanger the lives...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of prisoners in case of danger from fire or bombing - Chapter 126, Section 27
If a jail or other county prison or any building near thereto is on fire, or if a bomb threat has been received, or there...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supplies for jails and houses of correction - Chapter 126, Section 28
The county commissioners shall, except in Suffolk county, without extra charge or commission to themselves or to any other person, procure or cause to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expense of keeping and maintaining convicts - Chapter 126, Section 29
The expense of keeping and maintaining convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the jail or house of correction, of the keeping of persons charged with or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advances for expenses - Chapter 126, Section 30
Superintendents and keepers of jails and houses of correction authorized or directed to expend money in behalf of the county may have money advanced to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for advance expenses; approval - Chapter 126, Section 31
Every officer applying for such an advance shall certify in writing that the amount asked for is needed for immediate use, and, as specifically as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Account of expenditures - Chapter 126, Section 32
Every such officer shall within thirty days after the receipt of an advance file with the county treasurer a detailed statement, bearing the approval of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fuel, bedding and clothing for prisoners - Chapter 126, Section 33
The keeper of the jail and the superintendent of the house of correction in Suffolk county shall, at the expense of the county, provide necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Direction to furnish specific rations; conformance thereto - Chapter 126, Section 34
If the commissioners, or the mayor of Boston, direct specific rations or articles of food, soap, fuel or other necessaries to be furnished to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition, reclamation, improvement and sale of land - Chapter 126, Section 35
The county commissioners of any county may, subject to the approval of the commissioner of correction, purchase, take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erection of temporary buildings; management - Chapter 126, Section 36
Said commissioners may erect on said land such temporary buildings of inexpensive construction as they consider necessary for the proper housing of prisoners and for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of prisoners to industrial farms; custody - Chapter 126, Section 37
On the request of said commissioners, the sheriff of the county shall remove to said farm such prisoners as in his opinion can advantageously be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Borrowing money to meet expenses; bonds or notes - Chapter 126, Section 38
To meet the expense of acquiring land in fee under section thirty-five or for constructing buildings under section thirty-six, the county commissioners may borrow from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of loan - Chapter 126, Section 39
The county commissioners, at the time of authorizing each loan, shall provide for the payment thereof in accordance with the preceding section; and a sum...
Last modified: September 11, 2015