The superintendent of any correctional institution of the commonwealth may pay from the treasury of the institution not more than fifty dollars to every prisoner leaving the institution. A prisoner who leaves the institution shall be provided with decent clothing.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, § 162
Expenditure of institutional funds for welfare of released prisoners
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