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This is a list of state correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [1] It does not include federal prisons or houses of correction located in Massachusetts (known in other states as county jails). All of the following prisons are under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is responsible for the custody of about 8,292 prisoners (as of January 2020) [3] throughout 13 correctional facilities [4] and is the 5th largest state agency in the state of Massachusetts, [5] employing over 4,800 people (about 3,200 of whom are sworn correctional officers [6]). The Massachusetts ...
The process of closing the prison is split into three main phases. First phase plans to start around the summer of 2022, moving any newly sentenced men to the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison located in Lancaster, Massachusetts. In the second phase, prisoners in the Behavioral Management unit will be moved to ...
Pages in category "Prisons in Massachusetts" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Bay State Correctional Center; Boston Pre-Release Center;
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):
The Boston Pre-Release Center is a 200-bed facility designed to provide inmates gradual transition from prison life to the community. The facility utilizes inmate work crews supervised by correction officers to work through the city of Boston and the surrounding towns. Boston Pre-Release Center 430 Canterbury Street Roslindale, MA 02131
In order to use an inmate telephone service, inmates must register and provide a list of names and numbers for the people they intend to communicate with. [5] Call limitations vary depending on the prison's house rule, but calls are typically limited to 15 minutes each, and inmates must wait thirty minutes before being allowed to make another call. [6]
The prison is named in honor of a corrections officer, James Souza, 29, and an instructor Alfred Baranowski, 54, who were shot in July 1972 by an inmate whose wife had smuggled in handguns into what was then the Norfolk Prison Colony. Souza-Baranowski is the only post-conviction maximum-security state prison in Massachusetts. [3]