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This is a list of County Correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It does not include federal prisons or state prisons located in Massachusetts . Each of the following houses of correction and jails are under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff of that county.
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.
Worcester County (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ər / WUU-stər) is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census , the population was 862,111, making it the second-most populous county in Massachusetts.
The Federal Medical Center, Devens (FMC Devens) is a United States federal prison in Massachusetts for male inmates requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. It is designated as an administrative facility, which means it has inmates from different security classifications, from white-collar criminals to mobsters and sex ...
Last Worcester County sheriff of the royal Province of Massachusetts Bay. 5 Simon Dwight 1775–1778 6 William Greenleaf: 1778–1788 Impeached and removed for misconduct. 7 John Sprague 1788–1792 8 Dwight Foster: 1792–1793 Federalist: 9 William Caldwell 1793–1805 10 Thomas Walker Ward 1805–1824 11 Calvin Willard 1824–1844
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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 Massachusetts Correctional Institution—Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), formerly known as MCI-Walpole, was a mens maximum security prison under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It was opened in 1956 to replace Charlestown State Prison, the oldest prison in the nation at that time.