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