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The 194th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Section 19: Suffering or consenting to an escape from a penal institution

Section 19. An officer or other person, who, being employed in any penal institution, voluntarily suffers a convict confined therein to escape, or in any way consents to such escape, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.