State Farm/MCI Bridgewater death register, 1932-1987.

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State Farm/MCI Bridgewater death register, 1932-1987.

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Register documents deaths for all Bridgewater institutions, from the latter days of the State Farm (including almshouse, prison, and State Hospital) to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, including the addiction center, until the time that the State Hospital separated as an independent institution, and a few years before MCI Bridgewater ceased to exist as an administrative entity. For earlier death records see: Massachusetts. State Farm (Bridgewater, Mass.). State Workhouse/State Farm death records, 1886-1938 ((M-Ar)2549X)

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Massachusetts. State Farm (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater

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In 1955 the Massachusetts correctional system was reorganized, so that the State Farm at Bridgewater became the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, commonly called MCI Bridgewater. With this change, Bridgewater's admittance of misdemeanor convicts (since 1866), state charges (i.e., almshouse paupers, since 1872), and aged or infirm state prisoners (since 1890) was terminated, leaving the prison population (i.e., aside from Bridgewater State Hospital) almost entirely those with a...

Bridgewater State Hospital (Mass.)

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The State Asylum for Insane Criminals was established in Massachusetts in 1895 at the State Workhouse in Bridgewater. Under the workhouse's successor, the State Farm (from 1887), the asylum was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital in 1909. In 1919 the State Farm, including the State Hospital, was transferred from the State Board of Charity to the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons (later Dept. of Correction), although as of 1923 the Dept. of Mental Diseases (later Dept. of Mental Health) retained the...