Chapter 125

Section 1. As used in this chapter and elsewhere in the general laws, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings: (a) ''administrator'', chief administrative officer of a county correctional facility; (b) ''commissioner'', the com…

Section 10. All officers of such institutions, before entering upon the performance of their official duties, shall take and subscribe the following oaths:—''I, A.B., do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and will suppo…

Section 11. The department of correction shall maintain, for the security and confinement of prisoners of the commonwealth, the correctional institutions of the commonwealth. A person convicted and sentenced in a court of the United States need not be received in any such institu…

Section 12. All persons sentenced to any of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth shall be held in accordance with the sentences or orders of the courts and the rules and regulations of the commissioner. The personal property, valued in excess of fifty dollars, of all…

Section 13. The officers of each correctional institution shall be a superintendent, a deputy, chaplains and such other officers as the commissioner may find necessary; provided, that there shall be employed therein such additional officers as the commissioner shall consider nece…

Section 14. Subject to rules and regulations established by the commissioner and according to law, the superintendent shall be responsible for the custody and control of all prisoners in the correctional institution, and shall govern and employ them pursuant to their respective s…

Section 15. The superintendent, and his deputy, shall reside constantly within the precincts of the correctional institution, unless otherwise authorized by the commissioner.

Section 16. All females convicted of crimes in the courts of the commonwealth and sentenced to imprisonment or otherwise committed to the custody of the department shall be committed to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, or to such other correctional facility…

Section 17. The commissioner may, in behalf of the commonwealth hold not more than one acre of land within the town of Sherborn which may be used for the burial of prisoners who die in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.

Section 18. The Bridgewater state hospital shall be part of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater. The commissioner, with the approval of the commissioner of mental health, shall appoint a physician as medical director of the Bridgewater state hospital. The medi…

Section 19. No person shall be committed to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, for the treatment of alcoholism, except in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and eleven B and chapter one hundred and twenty-three.

Section 2. The superintendent and the deputy of each correctional institution of the commonwealth shall be appointed by the commissioner, shall hold office during his pleasure, and shall not be subject to the provisions of sections nine A and nine B of chapter thirty, or chapter …

Section 20. All contracts on account of any correctional institution of the commonwealth, except those required to be made by the state purchasing agent, shall be made by the commissioner in writing. The commissioner and his successors in office may sue or be sued upon any contra…

Section 21. At the time supplies for any of the said institutions are delivered, bills of the quantity and price of such supplies shall be taken and compared at the institution. Bills for all services rendered shall be taken and checked in like manner. Bills found to be correct s…

Section 3. All other officers and all employees in the said institutions shall be appointed by the commissioner, and, except as otherwise provided in chapter thirty and thirty-one, shall hold office during his pleasure. The duties of a correction officer or correctional program o…

Section 4. In certifying the names of persons eligible for appointment as correction officers in said institutions, the personnel administrator shall certify the names of persons who at the time of examination were over the age of nineteen.

Section 5. If the office of the superintendent of any of the said institutions is vacant, or if the said officer is absent from the institution or is unable to perform his duties, an acting superintendent designated by the commissioner shall have the powers to perform the duties …

Section 6. The commissioner shall appoint a treasurer of each correctional institution of the commonwealth, who shall give bond with surety for the faithful performance of his duties. In each such institution the said treasurer shall receive and disburse all moneys paid by the co…

Section 7. The superintendent of each such institution shall from time to time suggest to the commissioner in writing such alterations in the commissioner's rules as he considers advisable for the direction of the officers and employees of the institution and its government.

Section 8. Officers and employees in each such institution required to wear uniforms while on duty shall be furnished at the expense of the commonwealth with such uniforms of standard pattern as shall be prescribed by the commissioner.

Section 9. The commissioner shall establish a training academy in cooperation with the municipal police training council and using their facilities and programs where appropriate and such other courses or places of training as he deems necessary for the training of correction off…