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Boston Pre-Release Center Inmate Search and Prison Information

Updated on: February 6, 2023
Boston Pre-Release Center
617-822-5000
430 Canterbury Street, Roslindale, MA, 02131
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In Suffolk County, Massachusetts resides Boston Pre-Release Center.

The Boston Pre-Release Center is a medium-security state facility that houses adult male offenders. The Boston Pre-Release Center can house nearly 200 offenders at one time.

Here in the Boston Pre-Release Center offenders will either be housed in celled type of settings or dormitory type of settings.

You should know that the Boston Pre-Release Center is broken down into a few units. These units being:

  • Mental Health Unit

  • General Population Unit

  • Annex

  • Minimum Housing Unit

  • Infirmary Unit

  • Segregation Unit

The Boston Pre-Release Center also offers its offenders a variety of vocational programs including the following:

  • Culinary Arts Classes

  • Computer Courses

  • Horticulture Courses

  • Building Maintenance

  • Barbering

Offenders will also have the chance to get involved in parenting courses, substance abuse, re-entry programs, and sex offender treatment.

Boston Pre-Release Center — General Information

Boston Pre-Release Center, State Prison.
Adult, Capacity 200 persons.
430 Canterbury Street, Roslindale, MA, 02131
http://www.mass.gov/eopss/law-enforce-and-cj/prisons/doc-facilities/bay-state-correctional-center.html
617-822-5000

The Massachusetts Department of Corrections has a database of all Massachusetts state prisons inmates in one spot. This makes finding an inmate in the Boston Pre-Release Center rather easy.

You can search the database by using the inmate’s first and last name or you can search the database by his offender number.

Sending a Mail/Care Package

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Offenders will have the luxury of having the ability to send and receive letters from their family and friends.

Inmates mail will be examined prior to them receiving it for safety reasons. When sending the mail, you should have your return address along with the inmate’s name and inmate number on it as well.

Sending Money

The Boston Pre-Release Center has made it easy for family and friends of offenders to send money.

You can send money by using JPay. JPay is well known throughout the prison system. It’s the easy way to send money using your credit or debit card. The offender will receive the funds typically immediately as well.

Phone calls

Offenders in the Boston Pre-Release Center will have the opportunity to contact you via the telephone.

Telephone conversations will typically be limited to 15 minutes. This limitation is to ensure that every offender will have the chance to use the phone, if they want to.

Visitation

When visiting an inmate in the Boston Pre-Release Center, you will need to have proper identification. You will also need to know that you will only be permitted to visit the offender once every 14 days.

You should also note that depending on where the inmate is in the Boston Pre-Release Center, will be dependent on when you can visit. Visitation schedule is as follows:

For general population and annex offenders they can have visitors from 8:30 to 3 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and the weekends.

For segregation offenders, they will be permitted to have two no contact visits per month during 9 am to 2 pm on Tuesdays.

For infirmary offenders who are well enough to accept visitors will have access to the same visiting schedule as the other general population offenders

For minimum housing offenders will be having visitation on weekends between the hours of 9 am to 3 pm and then on Tuesdays and Thursdays between the hours of 6 pm to 8 pm.

Mental health offenders have visitation dependent on their level.

  • Level 1 has no contact visitation on Thursdays between the hours of 9 am to 2 pm

  • Level 2 has restrained contact visitation on Wednesdays from 9 am to 11 am and on Thursdays from 9 am to 2 pm.

  • Level 3 has contact visits on Wednesdays from 12 pm to 2 pm and Thursdays from 9 am to 2 pm.

  • Level for has visits between the hours of 8:30 am to 3pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Visiting Hours

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Saturday:
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Sunday:
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
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