Plan of land and buildings, Reformatory Prison for Women, Sherborn and Framingham, Massachusetts. 1909.

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Plan of land and buildings, Reformatory Prison for Women, Sherborn and Framingham, Massachusetts. 1909.

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1 ms. map : col., vellum, dissected in 3 pieces ; 215 x 102 cm.

State Library of Massachusetts

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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...