Recommitment register, 1877-1886.

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Recommitment register, 1877-1886.

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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. This register was created to record information about women returning to the reformatory to serve another sentence after having been released on permit or otherwise discharged.

1 v. (partial record center carton)Copies: Partial microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Massachusetts. Reformatory Prison for Women (1877-1911)

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