Prisons -- Massachusetts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts: In the House of Representatives, February 16, 1827 : The Committee of the House of Representatives appointed at the last session "to examine into, and ascertain the state of the several gaols, in this Commonwealth and also the penitentiary at Worcester, and the manner of confining and treating prisoners and report the result of their inquiries and any regulations which they might think it proper to be adopted - and also to inquire into the expediency of limiting by law, the expense of supporting and employing persons to the House of Correction at Worcester, and also, to consider the expediency of providing by law for the support and employment of persons committed to any House of Correction by any lawful authority" and report at the present session, respectfully make the following report ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.

Remarks on some of the provisions of the laws of Massachusetts, affecting poverty, vice, and crime: being the general topics of a charge to the Grand Jury of the County of Suffolk, in March term, 1822

by Josiah Quincy ...

State prisons and the penitentiary system vindicated: with observations on managing and conducting these institutions; drawn principally from experience. Also, some particular remarks and documents relating to the Massachusetts State Prison

by an officer of this establishment at Charlestown.

Reasons for a separate state prison for women

by Emory Washburn.

Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the expediency of revising the system of administration of the public charities of the commonwealth, December, 1877.

Massachusetts. Commission on revising the system of administration of public charities.

Special report on prisons and prison discipline, made under authority of the Board of state charities. By the secretary of the board.

Massachusetts. Board of State Charities.

Report on gaols [jails] and houses of correction in the commonwealth of Massachusetts

made by a committee appointed by the House of representatives, 1833.

The Massachusetts Prison Association

Massachusetts Prison Association.

To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council. This report of the Inspectors of the State Prison, for the year ending the 30th of September, 1830, is respectfully submitted.

Massachusetts State Prison.

Legislative Research Council report relative to prisons for profit

by Charles R. Ring.