Pre-release center entry authorization letters, <1988>-[ongoing].

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Pre-release center entry authorization letters, <1988>-[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). The pre-release center, called Hodder House, is a minimum security unit to which eligible inmates are sent approximately eighteen months prior to parole or expiration of sentence to become acclimated to life outside the institution. Entry authorization letters are created to admit or bar visitors to the facility.

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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...