Chap. 0019 An Act relative to the penalty for escapes or attempted escapes from the reformatory for women.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Section sixteen of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the General Laws, as most recently amended by section twenty-eight of chapter three hundred and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-one, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "institution" in the second line, as appearing in chapter three hundred and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the words: - other than the reformatory for women, - so as to read as follows: - Section 16. A prisoner who escapes or attempts to escape from any penal institution other than the reformatory for women, or from land appurtenant thereto, or from the custody of any officer thereof or while being conveyed to or from any such institution, may be pursued and recaptured and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one half years.

Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and sixty-eight is hereby further amended by inserting after section sixteen, as amended, the following section: - Section 16A. A prisoner who escapes or attempts to escape from the reformatory for women, or from land appurtenant thereto, or from the custody of any officer thereof, or while being conveyed to or from said reformatory, may be pursued and recaptured and shall be punished by imprisonment in said reformatory for a term not exceeding two years. Such sentence shall begin upon the expiration of the sentence which said prisoner was serving at the time of escape or attempted escape. Approved February 12, 1948.