Current through Register 1536, December 6, 2024
Section 17.14 - Reporting(1) The Commissioner and the Secretary shall file an annual report not later than March 1st with the clerks of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Senate and House Committees on Ways and Means and the Joint Committee on the Judiciary detailing, for the prior fiscal year: (a) the number of prisoners in the custody of the Department or sheriffs who applied for medical parole and the race and ethnicity of each applicant;(b) the number of prisoners who have been granted medical parole and the race and ethnicity of each parolee;(c) the nature of the illness of the applicants for medical parole;(d) the counties to which the prisoners have been released;(e) the number of prisoners who have been denied medical parole, the reason for the denial and the race and ethnicity of each prisoner;(f) the number of prisoners who have petitioned for medical parole more than once;(g) the number of prisoners released who have been returned to the custody of the Department or the sheriff and the reason for each prisoner's return; and(h) the number of petitions for relief filed under M.G.L. c. 249, § 4.(2) No information provided in this report shall include personally identifiable information of the prisoners.Adopted by Mass Register Issue 1396, eff. 7/26/2019.Amended by Mass Register Issue 1467, eff. 4/15/2022.