Pre-release center scissors charge-out forms, <1989>-[ongoing].

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Pre-release center scissors charge-out forms, <1989>-[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. Scissors charge-out forms are created to monitor the location of scissors used by inmates in in garment repair activities.

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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...