Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123A, § 2

Nemansket Correctional Center; treatment and rehabilitation personnel

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Section 2. The commissioner of correction shall maintain subject to the jurisdiction of the department of correction a treatment program or branch thereof at a correctional institution for the care, custody, treatment and rehabilitation of persons adjudicated as being sexually dangerous. Said facility shall be known as the ''Nemansket Correctional Center''. The commissioner of correction shall appoint a chief administrative officer who shall have responsibility for providing personnel with respect to the treatment and rehabilitation of the sexually dangerous persons, consistent with public safety. The commissioner of correction shall have the authority to promulgate regulations consistent with the provisions of this chapter.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 29 cases, 1959–2018 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Bruno

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Commonwealth v. Bruno (2000) mass · cites it 4× “” G. L. c. 123A, § 2. Further, c. 123A retains its place among public welfare chapters of the General Laws.”

Battista v. Clarke (2011) ca1 · cites it 2× “The Treatment Center, for which the Massachusetts Department of Correction (“the Department”) is responsible, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123A, § 2, is an all-male facility housing three groups: criminals participating in treatment programs, civilly committed residents, and those…”

Commonwealth v. Dube (2003) massappct “See G. L. c. 123A, §§ 2, 12(6). Both petitions were dismissed at preliminary stages because the Commonwealth’s expert, joined by every other psychiatric expert who had opined on their status, concluded that they were not sexually dangerous.”

Commonwealth v. McLeod (2002) mass “” G. L. c. 123A, § 2. It is to be maintained by the Commissioner of Correction, subject to the Department of Correction’s jurisdiction.”

In re R.B. (2018) mass “Bruno , supra , quoting G. L. c. 123A, § 2. Among its criminal components, G.”

Commonwealth v. Gillis (2007) mass “Chapter 123A authorizes indefinite commitment to the treatment center (see G. L. c. 123A, § 2) of any person who (1) has been “convicted of .”

Healey v. Dennehy (2014) ca1 “Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123A § 2. We have stressed that these statutory purposes encompass “not only treatment and rehabilitation but public safety.”

Doe, Sex Offender Registry Board No. 7083 v. Sex Offender Registry Board (2015) mass “For instance, a sex offender who has spent insufficient time in the treatment center, which was established to provide “treatment and rehabilitation of persons adjudicated as being sexually dangerous,” G. L. c. 123A, § 2, may not have had the opportunity to fully avail himself…”

Commonwealth v. Parra (2005) mass “See G. L. c. 123A, § 2. Because the depart- *264 meat was not so notified, the statutorily required report of the two qualified examiners was not ordered and was not filed with the court within the statute’s forty-five day requirement.”

Commonwealth v. Ronald Boyer (2004) massappct “The defendant had been sentenced on September 22, 1998, after pleading guilty to five counts of indecent assault and battery on his two stepchildren. 2 The offenses occurred in 1997. The children, a thirteen year old boy and a twelve year old girl, alleged that the defendant had…”

Andrews (1975) mass “See G. L. c. 123A, §2;c. 125, § 18. And it would appear that the governmental interest in protecting society from violence from the mentally ill while they are being treated would be substantially similar to the interest in protecting society from the sexually dangerous while…”

Commissioner of Correction v. McCabe (1991) mass “See also G. L. c. 123A, § 2 (1990 ed.), which provides, in part, that “[t]he commissioner of correction shall appoint custodial personnel [to the treatment center] who shall be subject to the control of the commissioner of mental health with respect to the care, treatment and…”

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