STATISTICAL REPORTS Commissioner of Correction
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Public Document No. 115 Styr Olommonutfaltlf of fflasBarljuarîta STATISTICAL REPORTS OF THE Commissioner of Correction For The Y ear Ending December 31, 1967 P ublication of t h is D ocu m ent A pproved by A lfred C. H olland. State P urchasing A gent. 900-6 -69-949774 $.667 (Eommomuraltlj of HJaBHarljuBpttH DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION 100 C ambridge Str eet, Boston, Mass. 02202 STATISTICAL REPORT OF THF COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION FOR, THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1967 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION JOHN A. GAVIN Commissioner Robert J. Moore, Deputy Commissioner for Institutional Services John J. Fitzpatrick, Deputy Commissioner for Classification and Treatment John A. Chmielinski, Deputy Commissioner for Personnel and Training Parole Board Joseph F. McCormack, Chairman Cornelius J. Twomey, Member John T. Lane, Member Mary P. Kirkpatrick, Member Tillie A. Z elesky, Member (Before June, 1967) L. Warren DeSaulnier, Member (Since June, 1967) 115 M /VC. P.D. 115 1 STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTION LOCATION Mass. Corr. Inst. Walpole........ South Walpole. Palmer Scafati, Superintendent Mass. Corr. Inst. Norfolk......... Norfolk........ Philip J. Picard, Superintendent Mass. Corr. Inst. Concord........ West Concord . James L. O'Shea, Superintendent Mass. Corr. Inst. Framingham . Framingham . Betty Cole Smith, Superintendent Mass. Corr. Inst. Bridgewater. South Bridgewater Charles W. Gaughan, Superintendent Mass. Corr. Inst. Plymouth . South Carver . James F. Mahoney, Jr. Mass. Corr. Inst. Monroe ......... Monroe ........ Director of Prison Camps Mass. Corr. Inst. Warwick........ Warwick........ 100 Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass. COUNTY JAILS AND HOUSES OF CORRECTION NOTE: Places marked with * are Jails only; those marked with a # are Houses of Correction only. COUNTY LOCATION Barnstable Barnstable................. Donald P. Tulloch, Sheriff Berkshire Pittsfield................. John D. Courtney, Sheriff Bristol . New Bedford ............... Edward K. Dabrowski, Sheriff Dukes . Edgartown* ............... John E. Palmeira, Sheriff Essex . Lawrence.................... Richard Healey, Master and Keeper S a l e m ..................... Earl E. Wells, Sheriff Franklin. Greenfield................. Herman A. Zimmerman, Master and Keeper Hampden . Springfield ............... John G. Curley, Sheriff Hampshire Northampton ............... John F. Boyle, Master and Keeper Middlesex Billerica# ............... Howard W. Fitzpatrick, Sheriff Cambridge ................. William L. McDonald, Master and Keeper Norfolk . Dedham..................... Charles W. Hedges, Sheriff Plymouth. Plymouth................... Adnah H. Harlow, Sheriff Suffolk . Boston; Charles Street* . Frederick R. Sullivan, Sheriff Boston; Deer Island# . Edgar L. Shepard, Master Worcester Worcester ................. Joseph A. Smith, Sheriff NOTES The State Correctional Institutions are under the control of the Department of Correction exclusively. All County Jails and Houses of Correction are under the general supervision of the Department of Correction. The facilities for juvenile delinquents are under the control and management of the Division of Youth Service in the Department of Education. The reports of the Superintendents of Massachusetts Correctional Institutions at Bridgewater, Concord, Framingham, Norfolk and Walpole and the Director of the Prison Camps at Monroe, Plymouth and Warwick are not included in this document. These reports are on file in the Department of Correction and the State Library. In this report all the Financial Tables concerning the State Correctional Institutions relate to the year that ended on June 30, 1967 in accordance with an Act of 1941 that established a fiscal year. Statistics relative to parole, prisoners in State Correctional Institutions, arrests, criminal prosecutions and all statistics relative to County Jails and Houses of Correction are for the year that ended December 31, 1967. P.D. 115 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE NO. PAGE I. General Summary Information: Statistical Trends in Massachusetts ................. 3 Major Offenses Committed in Massachusetts 1963-1967 . 1 5 Relationship of Imprisonment to Probation 1953-1967 . 2 6 II. State Parole Board Statistics: Number of Cases Considered by the Parole Board ........ 3,4 7 Meetings of the Parole Board & Advisory Board of Pardons 5,6 8 Releases from Institutions .............................. 7 9 Terminations of Parole Supervision ..................... 8,9 10 Cause of Revocations of Parole .......................... 10 11 III. State Department of Correction: Administration Organization ............................ - 12 Discharges by Commissioner of Correction ............... 11-13 13 Average Populations of State Correctional Institutions 1953-1967 ................................ 14 14 Discussion of Charts .................................... - 15 Charts of Commitments and Average Populations........... - 16 Movement of Population .................................. 15 24 Population at M.C.I., Bridgewater........................ 16 26 Defective Delinquents Definition & Pertinent Laws . - 27 Defective Delinquent Populations ........................ 17,18 28 Drug Addicts and Alcoholics at M.C.I., Framingham. 19 29 Offense and Sentence .................................. 20-22 30 Offense of Lifers....................................... 23 33 Offense and Age......................................... 24-27 34 Offense and Nativity .................................. 28-31 38 Education............................................... 32 42 Marital Status ......................................... 33 42 Occupation ............................................. 34 43 Medical and Mental History ............................ 35 43 Behavioral Deviations.................................. 36 43 Number and Percent of First Offenders Sentenced to State Institutions 1953-1967 ........................ 37 44 Former Commitments ..................................... 38,39 46 Sentencing Courts....................................... 40 50 County Jails and Houses of Correction: Administration Organization and Descriptive Data . - 52 Commitments and Discharges (Incl. Awaiting Trial). 41 53 Sentences of Convicted Offenders ..................... 42 54 Offense and County Institution ........................ 43 56 Offense and Sentence .................................. 44 58 Offense and Age......................................... 45 60 Offense and Nativity .................................. 46 62 Nativity, Marital Status .............................. 47 65 Sentences from the United States Courts............... 48 65 Arrests: In Cities and Towns by Class Offenses................. 49 66 In Each County by Class Offenses ..................... 50 66 In Each City and Town by Individual Offenses ........ 51 67 VI. Statistics of Court Prosecutions: Superior Courts......................................... 52-112 72-93 Lower Courts ........................................... 113-147 94-113 Delinquent Children - District and Municipal Courts ............................................. 148 114 Boston Juvenile Court.................................. 149 116 Search Warrants......................................... 150 118 Inquests and Neglected Children ..................... 151 120 VII. Financial Reports: State Correctional Institutions........................ 152 122 County Jails and Houses of Correction................. •153-154 124 P.D. 115 3 STATISTICAL TRENDS IN MASSACHUSETTS CRIMES COMMITTED BECAUSE THE AGGREGATED "CRIME INDEX" OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION IS OVERWEIGHTED BY THE LESS SERIOUS PROPERTY CRIMES AND THEREFORE IS NOT A GOOD INDICATOR FOR SHOWING ANY OVERALL TREND IN SERIOUS CRIME, NEVERTHELESS, ITS INDIVIDUAL RATES FOR EACH OF ITS SEVEN SELECTED CRIMES PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION. THE RATES IN MASSACHUSETTS FOR EACH OFFENSE INCREASED THIS YEAR BY THE FOLLOWING PERCENTAGES: MURDER UP 17%, FORCIBLE RAPE UP 19%, ROBBERY UP 13%, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT UP 7%, BURGLARY UP 9%, LARCENY ($50 AND OVER) UP 6% AND AUTO THEFT UP 21%. (SEE TABLE 1 ). ARRESTS THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR MINOR CRIMES DECREASED THIS YEAR (228,386 COMPARED TO 234,927 LAST YEAR). ON THE OTHER HAND THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR THE "SERIOUS" CRIMES, AS ESTABLISHED BY THE F.B.I., INCREASED (20,508 COMPARED TO 18,225 LAST YEAR). BECAUSE THE DECREASE IN NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR MINOR CRIMES CONSIDERABLY OVERBALANCED THE SMALL INCREASE OF MAJOR CRIME ARRESTS, THE OVERALL TOTAL NUMBER OF ARRESTS DECREASED (248,894 COMPARED TO 253,152 LAST YEAR). HOWEVER, WHEN THE TABULATIONS FOR ONLY THOSE ARRESTED UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE CONSIDERED THERE IS A SLIGHT VARIATION IN THE ABOVE PATTERN. AS WITH ADULTS THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR MINOR CRIMES DECREASED THIS YEAR (17,404 COMPARED TO 18,576). AND AGAIN AS WITH ADULTS THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR MAJOR CRIMES INCREASED (12,905 COMPARED WITH 11,814 LAST YEAR). THE DIFFERENCE OCCURS WHEN WE NOTE THAT THE INCREASE IN NUMBER OF ARRESTS FOR MAJOR CRIMES WAS SUFFICIENT TO CREATE AN OVERALL INCREASE IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ARRESTS OF THE UNDER 18 GROUP FOR ALL CRIMES(25,007 AS COMPARED WITH 24,987 LAST YEAR). (TABLE 49,50 and 51) BECAUSE MANY PERSONS APPEAR IN COURT WITHOUT HAVING BEEN ARRESTED BY POLICE AND BECAUSE THERE IS A QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT ALL LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS LEARN ABOUT AND TABULATE EVERY STATE POLICE ARREST WITHIN THEIR MUNICIPALITY (ESPECIALLY MOVING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS) IT APPEARS IMPOSSIBLE TO RECONCILE THE ABOVE STATISTICS OF POLICE ARRESTS WITH THE STATISTICS IN THE NEXT SECTION CONCERNING NUMBER OF COURT PROSECUTIONS.