Massachusetts General Laws|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Section 13 to 15 - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 27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Section 19, 20 - Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 19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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