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Population Movements in the Massachusetts Department of Correction During 1977

NCJ Number
82036
Author(s)
C Metzler
Date Published
1978
Length
14 pages
Annotation
This report is a description of admissions, releases, and transfers within the Massachusetts correctional institutions during 1977.
Abstract
Information is classified according to type of admission, type of release, institutional transfers, returns from hospitals, releases to hospitals, transfers of houses of correction inmates to Department of Correction facilities, and transfers to houses of correction. Other categories are returns of Department of Correction inmates from houses of correction, transfers to houses of correction on a from and after sentence, admissions from out of State, and releases to out of State. Each table is subdivided by the specific correctional facility. The data were obtained from the data base developed by the Correction and Parole Management Information System. A glossary is included. (Author summary modified)