Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877. It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24. Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: In six subseries : Arranged roughly chronologically,  within each subseries alphabetically by inmate name (except see below, subseries 6)
Restrictions: Criminal offender record information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 6, ss 167-178. For conditions of access consult repository 
Notes: Transferred to Archives, 2004-2005 (2005/04 and 2005/41).  A pre-existing incomplete file, 1915-1927, was returned to agency June 1990
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