Massachusetts General Laws Part I. Administration of the Government (Ch. 1-182) Ch. 127, § 90

The department or officers having charge of any prison or other place of confinement shall include as a separate item in their annual requests for appropriations such sums of money as they deem proper to carry out the two preceding sections and section forty of chapter one hundred and nineteen, relating to the religious instruction and free exercise of their religious beliefs by inmates of all the correctional institutions of the commonwealth. The amounts appropriated and spent for said purposes shall appear as a separate item in the reports of said department or officers.