Bridgewater judicial transfer files, 1968-1975 (bulk 1967-1969).

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Bridgewater judicial transfer files, 1968-1975 (bulk 1967-1969).

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The Division of Legal Medicine was established in 1956 to provide psychiatric services to courts and correctional institutions and to ensure that persons who came into contact with the criminal justice system received needed mental health care. St 1967, c 620 established special procedures whereby persons confined at Bridgewater State Hospital pursuant to then MGLA c 123, ss 51, 103-105 (cf. since 1970, ss 5-6, 18), could petition for hearings relative to their confinement. Bridgewater judicial transfer files were created by the Division of Legal Medicine in the course of carrying out its responsibiity for coordinating the transfer of those who, as a result of a judicial hearing, were to be transferred from Bridgewater, a maximum security facility, to other state hospitals for the mentally ill.

0.7 cubic ft. (2 doc. boxes)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. Division of Legal Medicine.

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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...