Chapter 127 - OFFICERS AND INMATES OF PENAL AND REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS; PAROLES AND PARDONS
- Section 127:1 - Definitions
- Section 127:1A - County correctional facilities; minimum standards; establishment and revision; financial or other assistance
- Section 127:1B - Inspection of county correctional facilities; compliance with minimum standards; report; notice of violations; enforcement procedure
- Section 127:2 - Duty of superintendents to keep records
- Section 127:3 - Money and property of prisoners; records; custody and return; transmission to court; interest on deposits
- Section 127:4 - [Repealed]
- Section 127:5 - Calendar of prisoners; contents
- Section 127:6 - Service of process in penal or reformatory institutions
- Section 127:7 - Warrants, mittimuses and processes; contents; filing
- Section 127:8 - Prison books; contents; verification
- Section 127:9 - Invoice books; contents
- Section 127:10 - Annual report to commissioner of correction
- Section 127:12 - Removal of unfaithful or incompetent officers or employees
- Section 127:13 - Removal of incompetent jailers or keepers of houses of correction
- Section 127:14 - Removal of officers using intoxicating liquor to excess
- Section 127:16 - Physical examination of inmates; communicable diseases; examination for substance abuse
- Section 127:16A - Reimbursement of medical expenses by persons incarcerated in pre-release facilities
- Section 127:17 - Specifications governing physical examinations; records; statements
- Section 127:17A - Establishment of programs in state correctional facilities for treatment of mentally ill inmates; mental health training for correction staff
- Section 127:17C - Access to assessment by qualified addiction specialists for state detainees or prisoners
- Section 127:17D - Report
- Section 127:18 - Penalty for failure to comply with sections 16 and 17
- Section 127:19 - Physical training of prisoners; director
- Section 127:20 - Classification of prisoners; approval
- Section 127:20A - Periodic classification board; membership
- Section 127:20B - Pretrial diversion programs; classification system; eligibility requirements
- Section 127:21 - Classification of prisoners in jails and houses of correction; approval
- Section 127:22 - Separation of prisoners; minors
- Section 127:23 - Identification of prisoners
- Section 127:25 - Fugitives from justice
- Section 127:27 - Forwarding of criminal history by district attorney
- Section 127:28 - Records of description and fingerprints
- Section 127:29 - Publication of records; exhibition of records
- Section 127:30 - Compensation to officers; reimbursement
- Section 127:32 - Treatment of prisoners
- Section 127:32A - Treatment of prisoner with gender identity that differs from prisoner's sex assigned at birth
- Section 127:33 - Maintenance of order in institutions; enforcement of obedience
- Section 127:36 - Visits to jail or correctional institutions; permission
- Section 127:36A - Conferences with attorneys
- Section 127:36B - Conferences with clergy members
- Section 127:36C - In-person visitation rights
- Section 127:37 - Record of visitors
- Section 127:38 - Use of gag
- Section 127:38A - Holding officers and employees of penal institutions as hostages
- Section 127:38B - Assaults upon guards; bodily substances; penalty
- Section 127:38C - Felonies in correctional institutions; notice to district attorney
- Section 127:38D - Notice of transfer of prisoner convicted of offense against correctional institution employee
- Section 127:38E - Inmate complaints; grievance system; grievance resolution
- Section 127:38F - Exhaustion of administrative remedies under Sec. 38E; court consideration of inmate claims; exceptions
- Section 127:38G - Disposition of court actions pending upon effectiveness of regulations promulgated under Sec. 38E
- Section 127:38H - Judicial review of final decision on grievance
- Section 127:39 - Restrictive housing units
- Section 127:39A - Screening for serious mental illness prior to placement in restrictive; housing of inmates with serious mental illness
- Section 127:39B - Placement review for prisoners confined to restrictive housing
- Section 127:39C - Promulgation of regulations governing training of correction officers deployed to restrictive housing
- Section 127:39D - Reports to restrictive housing oversight committee
- Section 127:39E - Prisoners in restrictive housing; access to vocational, education and rehabilitative programs
- Section 127:39F - Establishment of policies ensuring when inmates should not be housed in restrictive housing
- Section 127:39G - Restrictive housing oversight committee
- Section 127:39H - Promulgation of regulations to implement Secs. 127:39 to 127:39H
- Section 127:40 - [Repealed]
- Section 127:41 - [Repealed]
- Section 127:48 - Education, training and employment programs; establishment and maintenance; rules and regulations
- Section 127:48A - System of compensation; graduated scale; credits; appropriations
- Section 127:48B - Young adult correction units; designation of individual corrections officers to supervise young adults
- Section 127:49 - Participation of inmates in programs outside correctional facilities; eligibility; sentence credit; rules and regulations; escape, punishment; public employment; labor dispute restriction
- Section 127:49A - Evaluation of inmates for participation in programs outside correctional facilities; committees; recommendation
- Section 127:49B - Participation of prisoners in work programs at mental health, developmental services and public health facilities; restrictions
- Section 127:49C - Employment of prisoners of county correctional institutions on municipal properties within the county
- Section 127:51 - Establishment and maintenance of industries in correctional institutions; contracts for labor
- Section 127:52 - Supervisors and instructors; authority; removal
- Section 127:53 - Production of articles by prisoners
- Section 127:54 - Annual meetings for determination of styles, designs and qualities of articles to be produced by prisoners; expenses
- Section 127:55 - List of styles, designs and qualities of articles; arbitration of differences relative to styles, designs and qualities
- Section 127:56 - Annual estimates of articles and materials needed in public offices
- Section 127:57 - Lists of prison-made articles; requisitions from counties, municipalities and public institutions
- Section 127:58 - Prices of prison-made articles
- Section 127:60 - Penalty for failure to comply with sections relative to purchase of articles
- Section 127:61 - Establishment of industries at Massachusetts reformatory
- Section 127:66 - Purchase of tools and materials for correctional institutions; approval
- Section 127:66A - Purchase of tools and materials for jails and houses of correction; approval
- Section 127:67 - Sale of prison-made goods; proceeds
- Section 127:68 - Appointment of selling agents; removal
- Section 127:69 - Report relative to labor of prisoners
- Section 127:71 - Receipts from sale of products or services, or from labor, of committed offenders; disposition
- Section 127:72 - Payment of salaries and bills for tools, machinery and materials; schedules
- Section 127:73 - Suits on contracts by and against principal officers; arbitration
- Section 127:83 - Outdoor labor of inmates
- Section 127:83A - Establishment of camp for male prisoners for reforestation; approval; hearing
- Section 127:83B - Removal of prisoners to camp; permit to be at liberty; escape
- Section 127:83C - Escapes from prison camp
- Section 127:83D - Director of prison camp; offices and positions; appointments; duties
- Section 127:83E - Establishment of camps for prisoners prior to release on parole; transfer; training for release
- Section 127:84 - Purchases or lease of land for improvement by prison labor; payment to county
- Section 127:86F - Work release programs
- Section 127:86G - Work release programs; Suffolk county
- Section 127:86H - Public speaking engagements; inmates of state correctional facilities
- Section 127:86I - Public speaking engagements; inmates of county correctional facilities
- Section 127:87 - Correspondence of inmates
- Section 127:87A - State correctional facility, state prison or county correctional facility; voice communication services
- Section 127:88 - Religious services
- Section 127:89 - Maintenance of sabbath schools and schools for instruction
- Section 127:90 - Appropriations for religious instruction and services
- Section 127:90A - Temporary release of committed offenders
- Section 127:92 - Instruction in jails and houses of correction
- Section 127:92A - General education development tests; age requirement; no fee
- Section 127:93 - Appropriations for moral and religious instruction in jails and houses of correction
- Section 127:94 - Light for reading
- Section 127:96A - Disposition of unclaimed money of former prisoners; claim
- Section 127:96B - Disposition of unclaimed property of former prisoners; sale; proceeds
- Section 127:97 - Transfers from and to correctional institutions; approval
- Section 127:97A - Transfer of state prisoners to federal institutions; reciprocal agreements
- Section 127:97B - Treaties; transfer of prisoners to other countries
- Section 127:111A - Removal of defective delinquents
- Section 127:113 - Removal of prisoners convicted and sentenced by United States court
- Section 127:115 - Removal of prisoners from one jail to another by sheriff
- Section 127:116 - Application of original sentence of prisoner removed or returned
- Section 127:117 - Medical, dental, or similar professional treatment
- Section 127:117A - Temporary placement of prisoners in hospital or medical facility
- Section 127:118 - Pregnant and postpartum inmates; standards of care
- Section 127:119 - Hospital confinement as term of sentence
- Section 127:119A - Medical parole
- Section 127:120 - Order of removal; transfer of mittimuses and processes with prisoner
- Section 127:121 - Execution of order of removal
- Section 127:123 - Expense of removal
- Section 127:124 - Expense of support of prisoner transferred from correctional institution to jail or house of correction
- Section 127:125 - Expense of support of prisoner transferred from one county to another
- Section 127:126 - Expense of support of prisoner removed from jail or house of correction to Massachusetts correctional institution
- Section 127:127 - Special state police officers; powers and duties
- Section 127:128 - Issuance of parole permits
- Section 127:129B - Confinement while awaiting trial; reduction of sentence
- Section 127:129C - Confinement in prison camp; deduction of sentence for good conduct
- Section 127:129D - Eligibility for good conduct deductions
- Section 127:130 - Granting of parole permits; record of decision; jurisdiction of parole board over parolee; terms and conditions including payment of child support due; certificate of termination of sentence; alcohol and drug free housing
- Section 127:130A - Issuance of certificate of termination of sentence
- Section 127:130B - Issuance of parole permit
- Section 127:130C - Granting of compliance credits
- Section 127:131 - Giving of parolee written copy of terms and conditions of parole
- Section 127:131A - Notice to state and local police of terms and conditions of parole permits
- Section 127:133 - Granting of parole permits by board; eligibility and requisites
- Section 127:133A - Eligibility for parole; notice and hearing; parole permits; revision of terms and conditions; revocation; arrest
- Section 127:133B - Parole of prisoners declared to be habitual criminals; conditions; revision; revocation
- Section 127:133C - Representation of deceased victims by family members
- Section 127:133D - Community parole supervision for life
- Section 127:133D 1/2 - Parole requirements for certain sex offenders
- Section 127:133E - Victims of violent crime or sex offenses; certification by department of criminal justice information services; testimony at parole hearing
- Section 127:134 - Appearance before board; investigation and hearing by staff members; reports; sentences served in other states
- Section 127:135 - Furnishing information to parole board; filing information; statement; contents; availability; duty of clerk of court and probation officer
- Section 127:136 - Initiating release of prisoner; hearing; submission of further information to board; contents of reports
- Section 127:142 - Permits to be at liberty or discharge of pregnant females
- Section 127:143 - Discharge of common nightwalker from house of correction
- Section 127:144 - Discharge of prisoner committed for non-payment of fine
- Section 127:145 - Alternatives to incarceration for persons for non-payment of money owed
- Section 127:146 - Report of confinement of poor prisoner; discharge; guardianship
- Section 127:148 - Revocation of permit
- Section 127:149 - Arrest for violation of permit; application of terms of original sentence; computation of period of confinement
- Section 127:149A - Temporary custody of parolees; warrant
- Section 127:150 - Expiration of term on Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday
- Section 127:151 - Temporary care of infirm or diseased prisoner in institution after expiration of sentence; transfer to hospital
- Section 127:151A - Compacts with other states relative to convicts on probation or parole; form; approval
- Section 127:151B - Residence of person on probation to reside in another state; permits; revocation; modification
- Section 127:151C - Residence of prisoners on parole or on permit to be at liberty in another state; permits; revocation
- Section 127:151D - Effect of compact upon ratification by two or more states
- Section 127:151E - Effect of rules and regulations; powers and duties of officers
- Section 127:151F - Partial invalidity
- Section 127:151G - Citation; out-of-state probationer and parolee supervision law
- Section 127:151H - Administrator of interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers; powers and duties
- Section 127:151I - Interstate contracts by administrator; sharing of costs
- Section 127:151J - Administrator; lapse of parolee; notice to parole board; warrant for retaking
- Section 127:151K - Definition of "state"; commonwealth party to compact
- Section 127:151L - Withdrawal by compacting state; default on obligation or responsibility under compact
- Section 127:151M - Severability
- Section 127:151N - Construction with other laws
- Section 127:152 - Pardons by governor; petition; warrant to carry out pardon; advisory board of pardons; records sealed; revocation of pardon; execution of warrant; annual list of pardons
- Section 127:153 - Notification of attorney general of petition for pardon of prisoner in state prison
- Section 127:154 - Parole board as advisory board of pardons; powers and duties
- Section 127:155 - Violation of pardon; re-arrest; notice
- Section 127:156 - Confinement for unexpired term; computation of confinement; discharge
- Section 127:157 - Execution of warrant of pardon; return
- Section 127:158 - Duty of agents of parole board to aid parolees and discharged prisoners
- Section 127:160 - Expenditures for assistance of released prisoners
- Section 127:161 - Account of expenditures by agents of parole board
- Section 127:162 - Expenditure of institutional funds for welfare of prisoners released
- Section 127:162A - Arsonists; notice of release
- Section 127:163 - Annual report of agents for aiding discharged prisoners
- Section 127:164 - County commissioners; aid to prisoners
- Section 127:165 - Expenditure by superintendent or keeper of jail in aid of discharged prisoner
- Section 127:166 - Payment or receipt of money for obtaining pardon, parole, commutation of or respite from sentence
- Section 127:167 - Filing of statements by persons representing applicants for pardons, parole or commutation of sentence; contents records; inspection
- Section 127:168 - Violation of secs. 166 and 167
- Section 127:169 - Printing of copy of sections on form of petition for pardon
- Section 127:170 - [Multiple Versions] Commissary items; price
- Section 127:170 - [Multiple Versions] Recording and secure storage of audio for parole board hearings
- Section 127:171 - [Effective 7/1/2024] Charge for commissary items