The sentence to imprisonment of a female convicted of a felony shall be executed in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham; or the court imposing sentence in such a case may impose the sentence in a jail or house of correction provided by law in the case of male prisoners, if it does not exceed two and one half years.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 279, § 19
Place of imprisonment of females convicted of felony
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