Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 268 § 20
Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session
A jailer or officer who, through negligence, suffers a prisoner in his custody upon conviction or upon a charge of crime to escape, or wilfully refuses to receive into his custody a prisoner lawfully directed to be committed thereto upon conviction, upon a charge or crime, or upon a lawful process, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two years.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 268, § 20