General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT |
TITLE XVIII. PRISONS, IMPRISONMENT, PAROLES AND PARDONS |
CHAPTER 127. OFFICERS AND INMATES OF PENAL AND REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. PAROLES AND PARDONS |
SECTION 143. Discharge of common nightwalker from house of correction
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The county commissioners, or, in Boston, the penal institutions commissioner, subject to the approval of a justice of the court which imposed the sentence, after six months from the time of sentence, may discharge a person sentenced to the house of correction, upon a conviction under the provisions of section sixty-two of chapter two hundred and seventy-two of being a common nightwalker, if they are satisfied that the prisoner has reformed.