Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley

MCI - Shirley
Location MCI-Shirley
PO Box 8000
Shirley, MA 01464
Security class Level 4/3
Capacity 1019
Population 1468 (as of January 2016)
Opened 1991 (1991)
Managed by Massachusetts Department of Correction
Director Superintendent Kelly Ryan

Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley is a medium-security state prison in Shirley, Massachusetts. The facility also contains a minimum security section which houses less dangerous prisoners. MCI-Shirley maintains 13 inmate housing units, a 28-bed full service hospital unit, a 59-bed segregation unit, gym, recreation areas, school, industries, laundry, vocational area, and food services/programs. This facility is under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It is located directly to the north of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security facility. Currently, the facility houses approximately 1,500 adult male inmates.

History

William Dean Howells, Shirley Shaker Village, an illustration from Three Villages, 1884.

MCI Shirley was previously a Shaker colony, Shirley Shaker Village. The religious order sold the property to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1903. It opened as a reform school in 1908, and was later adapted as a medium-security prison.

Inmates

References

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