HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1715        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1483

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the establishment of a women's correctional facility in Middlesex County..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

There shall be established in Middlesex County, a Women's Correctional Facility. Said facility shall be operated, administered and staffed by the Middlesex Sheriff. The facility shall house women convicted of a crime that provides for a house of correction sentence and women detained while awaiting trial.