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 in the town of Lancaster. 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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