{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-127-143","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, § 143","heading":"Discharge of common nightwalker from house of correction","body":"Section 143. The county commissioners, or, in Boston, the penal institutions commissioner, subject to the approval of a justice of the court which imposed the sentence, after six months from the time of sentence, may discharge a person sentenced to the house of correction, upon a conviction under the provisions of section sixty-two of chapter two hundred and seventy-two of being a common nightwalker, if they are satisfied that the prisoner has reformed.","path":["Part I","Title XVIII","Chapter 127"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVIII/Chapter127/Section143","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:23:05Z","sha256":"093d1dd5c7b2bd8e1a3349a236f102a3f7f937901c76e41b804fb2a1ae83c2c3","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-127-142","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-127-144"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}