Superintendent's administrative files, 1958-[ongoing].

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Superintendent's administrative files, 1958-[ongoing].

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The Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham houses females sentenced to imprisonment, awaiting trial, or committed by the courts for alcohol or substance abuse treatment (MGLA c 125, s 16; c 123, s 35). To fulfill the responsibility of administering the facility, the superintendent creates and maintains administrative files that relate to internal management of the institution, external relations, and the formalization of agreements between Framingham and other parts of the Dept. of Correction and other state agencies.

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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...