Massachusetts · Through amendments passed before May 31, 2026

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, § 38A: Holding officers and employees as hostages

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Part I
Title XVIII
Chapter 127

Section 38A. Any prisoner in any penal or reformatory institution who holds any officer or employee of such institution or any other person as a hostage shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.

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