An officer or other person, who, being employed in any penal institution, voluntarily suffers a convict confined therein to escape, or in any way consents to such escape, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 268, § 19
Suffering or consenting to an escape from a penal institution
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