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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 126. — JAILS, HOUSES OF CORRECTION AND REFORMATION, AND COUNTY INDUSTRIAL FARMS.
- Chapter 126 — Section 1. County commissioners; inspection of prisons; duties.
- Chapter 126 — Section 2. Exhibition of prison books, documents and accounts; examination of prisonofficers.
- Chapter 126 — Section 3. Violation of laws relative to prisons; notice.
- Chapter 126 — Section 4. Purposes of jails.
- Chapter 126 — Section 5. Confinement.
- Chapter 126 — Section 6. Reimbursement of sheriff for damages for escape.
- Chapter 126 — Section 7. Return of list of prisoners to superior court.
- Chapter 126 — Section 8. Houses of correction; establishment.
- Chapter 126 — Section 8A. Superintendents.
- Chapter 126 — Section 9. Yards of houses of correction; fences.
- Chapter 126 — Section 9A. Uniforms.
- Chapter 126 — Section 10. Execution of sentence.
- Chapter 126 — Section 11. Rules; examination of accounts; records.
- Chapter 126 — Section 12. Report of sheriff.
- Chapter 126 — Section 13--15. Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 27.
- Chapter 126 — Section 16. Custody and control of jails and houses of correction; jailer; assistants;bond.
- Chapter 126 — Section 17. Rent from jailers and keepers of houses of correction.
- Chapter 126 — Section 18. Compensation and duties of officers and assistants.
- Chapter 126 — Section 18A. Injuries to jail or house of correction employees, compensation.
- Chapter 126 — Section 19--20. Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 19.
- Chapter 126 — Section 21. Abstract of mittimus upon commitment of female.
- Chapter 126 — Section 22. Burial of deceased prisoners.
- Chapter 126 — Section 23. Delivery of prisoners by sheriff to successor.
- Chapter 126 — Section 24. Death of sheriff; temporary custody and control of jail; bond of jailer.
- Chapter 126 — Section 25. Care of jail or house of correction.
- Chapter 126 — Section 26. Removal of prisoners in case of disease.
- Chapter 126 — Section 27. Removal of prisoners in case of danger from fire or bombing.
- Chapter 126 — Section 28. Supplies for jails and houses of correction.
- Chapter 126 — Section 29. Expense of keeping and maintaining convicts.
- Chapter 126 — Section 30. Advances for expenses.
- Chapter 126 — Section 31. Application for advance for expenses; approval.
- Chapter 126 — Section 32. Accounting.
- Chapter 126 — Section 33. Fuel, bedding and clothing for prisoners.
- Chapter 126 — Section 34. Conformance to direction to furnish specific rations.
- Chapter 126 — Section 35. County industrial farms; acquisition, reclamation, improvementand sale of land.
- Chapter 126 — Section 36. Erection of temporary buildings; management.
- Chapter 126 — Section 37. Removal of prisoners to industrial farms; custody.
- Chapter 126 — Section 38. Borrowing money to meet expenses; bonds or notes.
- Chapter 126 — Section 39. Payment of loan.
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