Massachusetts Statutes
§ 19 — Suffering or consenting to an escape from a penal institution
Massachusetts § 19
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IVCRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES
Title ICRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Ch. 268CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
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Bluebook
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 268, § 19 (2026).
Text
Section 19. An officer or other person, who, being employed in any penal institution, voluntarily suffers a convict confined therein to escape, or in any way consents to such escape, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.
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