Prisoners physical measurement register, 1899-1909.

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Prisoners physical measurement register, 1899-1909.

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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. This register was created to record physical characteristics of inmates using a descriptive system known as the Bertillon Method, in accordance with St 1900, c 260.

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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. ...