Chapter 27

Section 1. There shall be a department of correction, under the supervision and control of a commissioner of correction. The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department and all officers and employees of the department and all of the correctional …

Section 2. The commissioner shall, with the approval of the secretary of public safety, appoint and may, with like approval, remove a deputy commissioner for institutional services, a deputy commissioner for personnel and training, and a deputy commissioner for community services…

Section 2A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-one of chapter thirty-one, the personnel administrator shall establish the following educational requirements for taking an examination for the following positions in the department of correction:— An applicant for dire…

Section 4. There shall be in the department, but not subject to its jurisdiction, a parole board, consisting of seven members, 1 of whom shall at all times have experience in forensic psychology, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for ter…

Section 5. The parole board shall (a) within its jurisdiction, as defined in section one hundred and twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, determine which prisoners in the correctional institutions of the commonwealth or in jails or houses of correction may be rel…

Section 7. (a) Retired members of the parole board and retired judges of the commonwealth whose names have been placed on the list of special parole board members pursuant to paragraph (d) may be designated by the secretary of the executive office of public safety, upon applicati…