Inmate case files, 1913-1965 (bulk 1913-1940).

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Inmate case files, 1913-1965 (bulk 1913-1940).

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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. Beginning about 1913 inmate case files were created as a central source of information on each inmate; they contain extensive information on inmates' personal history as well as on their activities both while at the reformatory and on parole.

240 cubic ft. (192 record center cartons)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233477

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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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...

Massachusetts. Reformatory for Women (1911-1952)

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The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877. It was renamed Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181 and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24. Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham. From the description of Photographs of recreational events, 1911-1950 (bulk 1917-1924)....