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Massachusetts' care of dependent and delinquent children. (Massachusetts Board of Managers, World's Fair, 1893), by Elizabeth Cabot Putnam, Elizabeth Glendower Evans, Anne B. Richardson, World's Fair Massachusetts Board of Managers, and Massachusetts. State Board of Lunacy and Charity (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Juvenile detention homes -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century

An address delivered at the opening of the new building of the White Female Department of the House of Refuge, January 20th, 1872. ([Philadelphia], 1872), by Thomas A. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Prisoners -- Massachusetts

Final report of the Senate Spcial Committee to Make an Investigation and Study of the Corrections System of the Commonwealth (Boston : Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1973., 1973), by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate. Special Committee to Make an Investigation and Study of the Corrections System of the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Prisoners -- Massachusetts -- Statistics

A description of the residents of Massachusetts correctional institutions on January 1, 1974 (Massachusetts Dept. of Correction, 1974), by Massachusetts. Dept. of Correction. Correction/Parole Information System Unit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A description of court commitments to the Massachusetts Department of Correction during 1973 (The Department, 1974), by Massachusetts. Dept. of Correction. Correction/Parole Information System Unit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abstract of returns of the keepers of jails, and overseers of the houses of correction, for 1849 (Dutton and Wentworth, state printers, No. 37, Congress Street., 1849), by Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth and Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
Documents relating to the state prison. 1850. (s.n., 1850), by Massachusetts State Prison, Massachusetts. Governor (1844-1851 : Briggs), and Massachusetts. Council (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Prisoners -- Massachusetts -- Statistics -- Periodicals

A Statistical description of commitments to Massachusetts houses of correction during ... (Massachusetts Dept. of Correction, 1976), by Massachusetts. Department of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Population movements in the Massachusetts Department of Correction during ... (The Department, in the 20th century), by Massachusetts. Department of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Pre-release programs for prisoners -- Massachusetts -- Statistics

A comparison between pre-release program completers and non-completers at Massachusetts Halfway Houses, Inc. (Massachusetts Dept. of Correction, 1975), by Joseph Landolfi and Massachusetts. Department of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Convict labor -- Massachusetts

Convict labor : argument of Charles H. Litchman of Marblehead, Mass., before the Joint Special Committee on Labor, in behalf of petitioners for the abolition of the manufacture of gilt mouldings in the penal institutions of Massachusetts : Boston, March 6, 1879. (Rand, Avery, & Co., 1879), by Charles H. Litchman (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Joint Special Committee on Contract Convict Labor. (Rand, Avery & Co., 1880), by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Contract Convict Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Convict labor -- Massachusetts -- Periodicals

Annual report of the General Superintendent of Prisons relating to prison labor. (Wright & Potter Print. Co., state printers, 1888), by Massachusetts. General Superintendent of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Pre-release programs for prisoners -- Massachusetts

A profile of characteristics distinguishing between program completers and program non-completers in Massachusetts pre-release centers (Massachusetts Dept. of Correction, 1975), by Daniel P. LeClair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Prison furloughs -- Massachusetts

Interim report of the Special Commission Relative to the Effect of the Prisoner Furlough Program on the Citizens of the Commonwealth. ([Boston] : Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1975., 1975), by Massachusetts. Special Commission Relative to the Effect of the Prisoner Furlough Program on the Citizens of the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The effect of the home furlough program on rates of recidivism (Massachusetts Dept. of Correction, 1977), by Daniel P. LeClair and Massachusetts. Department of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Prison furloughs -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts

Interim report of the Special Commission Relative to the Effect of the Prisoner Furlough Program on the Citizens of the Commonwealth. ([Boston] : Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1975., 1975), by Massachusetts. Special Commission Relative to the Effect of the Prisoner Furlough Program on the Citizens of the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts

Report relative to voting by prisoners and the mentally ill (The Council, 1974), by Massachusetts. General Court. Legislative Research Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Public institutions -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Reports of the committee of the whole Board of Aldermen on the care and management of the public institutions : with an appendix giving testimony submitted at the investigation. (Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1894), by Boston (Mass.). Board of Aldermen (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of Commission on the Treatment of the Poor, 1878 (Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1878), by Boston (Mass.). Commission on the Treatment of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Board of Visitors to the Public Institutions. (Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1894), by Boston (Mass.). Board of Visitors to the Public Institutions (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Public institutions -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Periodicals

Annual report of the Institutions Department. (Boston., 1896), by Boston (Mass.). Institutions Department (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the Institutions Registration Department. (The Dept., in the 19th century), by Boston (Mass.). Institutions Registration Department (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asylums -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Periodicals

Annual report of the managers of the Adams Nervine Asylum. (A. Mudge, in the 19th century), by Adams Nervine Asylum (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Periodicals

Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston. (Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1856), by School Committee of the City of Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston. (Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1856), by Boston (Mass.). School Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Art schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Periodicals

Annual report (Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1877), by Boston. School Museum of Fine Arts, Alfred H. Brooks, and Alfred Mudge and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual catalogue ([Museum of Fine Arts, Boston], between 1000 and 1999), by Boston. School Museum of Fine Arts and Diana Korzenik (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Public schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Periodicals

Expenditures for the public schools : report of the Committee on Accounts. (Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, in the 19th century), by Boston (Mass.). School Committee. Committee on Accounts (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the superintendent of public schools of the city of Boston. (J. H. Eastburn, city printer, 1851), by Boston (Mass.). Superintendent of Public Schools and Boston (Mass.). School Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Semi annual report of the superintendent of public schools of the city of Boston (Rand & Avery, city printers, 1860), by Boston (Mass.). Superintendent of Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Charlestown. (W.W. Wheildon, 1849), by Mass.). School Committee Charlestown (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the superintendent of public schools, city of Boston 28th (1907/1908) (Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1881), by Boston (Mass.). Superintendent of Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Financial report of the School Committee of the City of Boston for the year ending ... (Print. Dept., in the 20th century), by Boston (Mass.). School Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston. (Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1856), by Boston (Mass.). School Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Almshouses -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Annual report. (Boston :, 1800), by Boston (Mass.). Department of Public Institutions and Boston (Mass.). Benevolent and moral institutions and societies (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual for the use of the Overseer of the poor in the city of Boston (J.E. Farwell and company, printers to the city, 1866), by Boston (Mass.). Overseers of the Poor, Boston (Mass.), and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Committee on the Subject of Pauperism and a House of Industry in the town of Boston. ([Boston, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1821?], 1821), by Boston (Mass.). Committee on the Subject of Pauperism and a House of Industry and Josiah Quincy (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asylums -- Massachusetts -- Boston

An account of the Boston Female Asylum : with the act of incorporation, by-laws, rules and regulations. (J. E. Hinckley, 1833), by Boston Female Asylum (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Reformatories -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Report of the Standing committee of the Common Council, on the subject of the House of reformation for juvenile offenders ... (J.H. Eastburn, city printer, 1832), by Boston (Mass.). Common Council. Standing Committee on House of Reformation for Juvenile Offenders, John Henry Eastburn, and John W. James (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Schools -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Annals of the Boston Primary school committee, from its first etablishment in 1818, to its dissolution in 1855. (G. C. Rand & Avery, city printers, 1860), by Joseph Milner Wightman (page images at HathiTrust)
John Tileston's school : Boston, 1778-1789 : 1761-1766 : also, his diary from 1761 to 1766 (Antiquarian Book Store, 1887), by D. C. Colesworthy and John Tileston (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the School Committee of the city of Boston on the state of the schools, May 1826. (Thomas B. Wait and Son ..., 1826), by Boston (Mass.). School Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Review of the Mayor's Report, on the subject of schools : so far as it relates to the High School for Girls (Bowles & Dearborn, 1828), by Ebenezer Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the class of 1876, English High School, Boston, Mass. : Including all who were members of the class during any portion of its three years' course, 1873-1876. (Alfred Mudge & Son, printers, 24 Franklin Street, 1887), by Mass.) English High School (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston <1877-1943> (Rockwell and Churchill, in the 19th century), by School Committee of the City of Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
Hearing held in Boston, Massachusetts, June 16-20, 1975. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)

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