Incoming correspondence from the office of the Commissioners of Prisons, 1879-1881.

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Incoming correspondence from the office of the Commissioners of Prisons, 1879-1881.

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Since 1877 the Reformatory Prison for Women under successive names has had as its function the punishment and rehabilitation of female offenders. Incoming correspondence from the office of Commissioners of Prisons relates to the management of the reformatory and its inmates.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. Reformatory Prison for Women (1877-1911)

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The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877. It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24. Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham. ...

Massachusetts. Commissioners of Prisons

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The Commissioners of Prisons were established pursuant to St 1870, c 370. As reconstituted under St 1879, c 294, they were also known as the Board of Commissioners of Prisons. They were succeeded in turn by the Board of Prison Commissioners (St 1901, c 364), the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons (St 1916, c 241), and the Dept. of Correction (St 1919, c 350, s 82) From the description of Board minutes, 1879-1888. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 180702066 ...