Commissioner's reference files, 1926-1971.

Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, Mass. (1955-)

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The Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham serves as the general penitentiary for women convicts for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A carceral facility for female convicts was first established with An Act to Establish a Reformatory Prison for Women (St 1874, c 385), which authorized the Commissioners of Prisons to plan for the erection of a reformatory prison suitable for five hundred prisoners. The commissioners were charged with the general supervisi...

Massachusetts. Dept. of Correction. (1919-)

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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) NAME AUTHORITY NOTE. Series relating to the agencies described above can be found by searching the following ...

Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Concord

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The Massachusetts Reformatory was established pursuant to St 1884, c 255, at the Concord site of the State Prison; the latter institution was moved back to Boston (Charlestown), where it had been located until 1878. Certain inmates of the State Prison (s 3), inmates of county jails or houses of correction (s 12), and inmates of the State Reform School at Westborough, whose population was henceforth to be limited to boys under the age of fifteen (ss 11, 13), were all possible candida...

Suffolk County (Mass.). Jail

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Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk

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St 1927, c 289 established the State Prison Colony, to which the commissioner of correction could transfer inmates of the State Prison. Construction using such inmates began at Norfolk in 1927 and was completed in 1931. St 1931, c 204 authorized tranfer there of inmates from the Massachusetts Reformatory, the State Farm, and county jails and houses of correction. St 1953, c 591 provided that on completion of new buildings at Norfolk and at Walpole, such institutions woul...

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...