Chap. 172.   An   Act  providing  for  the  eligibility  of   certain
PRISONERS SENTENCED TO LIFE TO BE PERMITTED TO SERVE PART OF THEIR SENTENCE AT A PRISON CAMP.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Section 83A of chapter 127 of the General Laws, as most recently amended by chapter 667 of the acts of 1956, is hereby further amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:—The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish, on land under the control of the department of natural resources or of the metropolitan district commission and upon sites approved by the commissioner of natural resources or the metropolitan district commission, as the case may be, camps to which male prisoners, including male prisoners sentenced to life who' have served twelve years, except those serving a sentence for life for first degree murder, may be removed for employment, as designated and approved by the commissioner of natural resources or the metropolitan district commission, as the case may be, in reforestation, maintenance and development of state forests, who have shown by their conduct and disposition that they would be amenable to less rigorous discipline and would benefit from work in the open air; provided, however, that only one such camp may be established on land under the control of the metropolitan district commission.
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Section 2. The first paragraph of section 83B of said chapter 127, as most recently amended by section 7 of chapter 1076 of the acts of 1971, is hereby further amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:—The commissioner may remove to any camp so established any prisoner held in a correctional institution of the commonwealth, except the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, and sentenced prisoners in jails and houses of correction, including male prisoners sentenced to life who have served twelve years, except a prisoner serving a life sentence for first degree murder, or a sentence imposed for violation of sections twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-five and for attempt to commit a crime referred to in said sections, who, in his judgment, may properly be so removed and may at any time return such prisoners to the prison from whence removed.                                                   Approved April IS, 1972.