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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 279, § 23 (2026)

Limitation of sentences of males to jails or houses of correction

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Section 23. No sentence of a male convict to imprisonment or confinement for more than two and one half years shall be executed in any jail or house of correction.

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Cited in 4 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1981–2023 · leading case: Sheriff of Middlesex Cnty. v. COMM. OF Corr., 421 N.E.2d 75 (Mass. 1981).
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Sheriff of Middlesex Cnty. v. COMM. OF Corr., 421 N.E.2d 75 (Mass. 1981). · cites it 3× “Although the plaintiffs make no particular note of it in their brief, G. L. c. 279, § 23, provides that “[n]o sentence of a male convict to imprisonment or confinement for more than two and one-half years shall be executed in any jail or house of correction.”
DuPont v. Comm'r of Corr., 861 N.E.2d 744 (Mass. 2007). “Sentences to a house of correction are almost always of shorter duration than sentences to State prison, see G. L. c. 279, § 23 (“No sentence of . . .”
Guardado v. United States, 76 F.4th 17 (1st Cir. 2023). “Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 279, § 23 ; Mass. Gen.”
Commonwealth v. Singleton, 32 Mass. L. Rptr. 211 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2014). “G.L.c. 279, §23. The defendant’s argument that G.”
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