Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center

Souza Baranowski Correctional Center
Location	Lancaster, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°31′24″N 71°38′53″W / 42.52333°N 71.64806°W / 42.52333; -71.64806Coordinates: 42°31′24″N 71°38′53″W / 42.52333°N 71.64806°W / 42.52333; -71.64806
Status	Operational
Security class	Supermax
Capacity	1,024 (Houses 1,032)
Opened	September 30, 1998
Managed by	Massachusetts Department of Correction
Director	Superintendent Steven Silva

Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center is a maximum security prison in Lancaster, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is operated by the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It is close to the medium security prison Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, which is directly to the north, in Shirley. Souza-Baranowski opened on September 30, 1998 and is among the most technologically advanced prisons in the United States.^[1] Currently, the facility houses just over 1,000 maximum-security adult-male inmates.

Notable inmates

Although the prison is physically located in Lancaster, it gets its mail through a post-office box in the nearby town of Shirley.

Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
PO Box 8000
Shirley, MA 01464

↑ Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Accessed May 2015.

Massachusetts Department of Correction prisons

State prisons	Boston Pre-Release Center Bridgewater State Hospital Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Correctional Unit Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center MCI Cedar Junction MCI Concord MCI Framingham MCI Norfolk MCI Plymouth MCI Shirley Massachusetts Treatment Center North Central Correctional Institution Northeastern Correctional Center Old Colony Correctional Center Pondville Correctional Center South Middlesex Correctional Center Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center

Defunct	Bay State Correctional Center Charlestown State Prison MCI Lancaster MCI Shirley Minimum Southeastern Correctional Center

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