MCI Framingham Will No Longer House Female Inmates from 4 Western Counties

Four dozen female inmates from four Western Massachusetts counties were transferred from the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Framingham (MCI-Framingham) to a new facility in Chicopee, according to the Department of Corrections.

Female inmates from Worcester, Hampshire, Berkshire and Franklin counties who are held in lieu of bail on criminal charges or serving county jail sentences are no longer being housed at the MCI-Framingham. They will now be housed at the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center in Chicopee.

The western Massachusetts center recently went through an $18.5 million expansion allowing it to house now 184 inmates, a 64 inmate increase.

MCI-Framingham will continue to house all Massachusetts women who are sentenced to state prison terms and any females found guilty in Middlsex, Essex and Norfolk counties.

MCI Framingham via pre-release center, the South Middlesex Correctional Center will house all female pretrial detainees from Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk and Plymouth counties.

Barnstable, Dukes, Suffolk and Bristol counties have its own detention facilities for women, who are awaiting trial or who have been sentenced for a crime.