Chapter 120 - DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES AND MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING SCHOOLS
- Section 120:1 - Corporate status of department of youth services; holding and investing trust funds
- Section 120:2 - Management, government and care of industrial schools; employment of expert personnel by director
- Section 120:3 - Appointment of superintendents, chaplains and physicians
- Section 120:4 - Rules and regulations; by-laws
- Section 120:5 - Examination and study of children committed; re-examinations; records; discharge
- Section 120:6 - Liberty under supervision; confinement; reconfinement; revocation or modification of order; discharge
- Section 120:6A - Correction of socially harmful tendencies
- Section 120:7 - Powers and duties of superintendent
- Section 120:8 - Bond and accounts of superintendents; accounting to commissioner of youth services
- Section 120:9 - Rogers fund
- Section 120:10 - Use of public or private facilities, institutions and agencies; control; inspection; acceptance and control of delinquent children; effect of placement of person in or release from institution or control by department
- Section 120:10B - Involuntary room confinement
- Section 120:11 - Places for detention and diagnosis; treatment and training facilities; facilities to aid persons given conditional releases; forest or farm school camps
- Section 120:12 - Parole; placing custody in home or family; notice to police authority; supervising agents; notice to commissioner of transitional assistance; resumption of custody
- Section 120:13 - Escape; breach of parole; arrest; detention
- Section 120:13A - Compensation for property damage caused by inmates; notice of damage; claim; filing
- Section 120:14 - Applications for new commitments for mentally ill, developmentally disabled or sexually dangerous persons
- Section 120:15 - Transfers from Massachusetts reformatory and reformatory for women
- Section 120:16 - Discharge of person committed as delinquent child or youthful offender
- Section 120:17 - Procedure when discharge deemed dangerous; control beyond age limit; order; application; statement of facts; review of order
- Section 120:18 - Notice of application for review of order; hearing; appointment of counsel; court order
- Section 120:19 - Control continued upon court confirmation of department order; power to transfer custody of persons eighteen or older
- Section 120:21 - Effect of commitment on application for public service; discharge; restoration of civil rights; records; inspection; consent; evidence in other proceedings
- Section 120:22 - Inquiry into effectiveness of methods; information; annual report; contents
- Section 120:23 - Power of department to act as guardian of children
- Section 120:23A - Disposition of unclaimed money held for former ward; records
- Section 120:24 - Expenditure of gifts
- Section 120:25 - Children committed by United States courts
- Section 120:26 - Escape or attempt to escape; aiding or assisting child in escape