Director of treatment and programs program unit subject files, <1979>-[ongoing].

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Director of treatment and programs program unit subject files, <1979>-[ongoing].

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). Under the supervision of the deputy superintendent for programs and treatment, the director of treatment and programs coordinates recreational and treatment programs for sentenced and unsentenced inmates. Program unit subject files are created by the director to administer inmate programs to monitor civil commitments of inmates to special treatment programs.

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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...