Massachusetts § 38A Holding officers and employees as hostages

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 38A — Holding officers and employees as hostages

Massachusetts § 38A

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title XVIIIPRISONS, IMPRISONMENT, PAROLES AND PARDONS

Ch. 127OFFICERS AND INMATES OF PENAL AND REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. PAROLES AND PARDONS

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, § 38A (2026).

Text

Section 38A. Any prisoner in any penal or reformatory institution who holds any officer or employee of such institution or any other person as a hostage shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.

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