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2019 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 2 - Exhibition of Prison Books, Documents and Accounts; Examination of Prison Officers
- Section 3 - Violation of Laws Relative to Prisons; Notice
- Section 4 - Jails; Purposes
- Section 5 - Confinement
- Section 6 - Reimbursement of Sheriff for Damages for Escape
- Section 7 - Return of List of Prisoners to Superior Court
- Section 8 - Establishment of Houses of Correction
- Section 8a - Superintendents
- Section 9 - Houses of Correction Yards; Fences
- Section 9a - Uniforms
- Section 10 - Execution of Sentence
- Section 11 - Rules for the Management of House of Correction; Examination of Accounts; Records
- Section 12 - Sheriff's Report to Superior Court
- Section 13 To 15 - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 27
- Section 16 - Custody and Control of Jails and Houses of Correction; Jailer; Assistants; Bond
- Section 17 - Rent From Jailers and Keepers of Houses of Correction
- Section 18 - Compensation and Duties of Officers and Assistants
- Section 18a - Injuries to Jail or House of Correction Employees; Compensation
- Section 19, 20 - Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 19
- Section 21 - Abstract of Mittimus Upon Commitment of Female
- Section 22 - Burial of Deceased Prisoners
- Section 23 - Delivery of Prisoners to Sheriff's Successor
- Section 24 - Death of Sheriff; Temporary Custody and Control of Jail; Bond
- Section 25 - Care of Jail or House of Correction
- Section 26 - Removal of Prisoners in Case of Disease
- Section 27 - Removal of Prisoners in Case of Danger From Fire or Bombing
- Section 28 - Supplies for Jails and Houses of Correction
- Section 29 - Expense of Keeping and Maintaining Convicts
- Section 30 - Advances for Expenses
- Section 31 - Application for Advance Expenses; Approval
- Section 32 - Account of Expenditures
- Section 33 - Fuel, Bedding and Clothing for Prisoners
- Section 34 - Direction to Furnish Specific Rations; Conformance Thereto
- Section 35 - County Industrial Farms; Acquisition, Reclamation, Improvement and Sale of Land
- Section 36 - Erection of Temporary Buildings on County Industrial Farm; Management
- Section 37 - Removal of Prisoners to Industrial Farms; Custody
- Section 38 - Borrowing Money to Meet Expenses; Bonds or Notes
- Section 39 - Payment of Loan
- Section 40 - Recording and Reporting of Data on Population of Jails and Houses of Correction
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