The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Correctional Unit is a 23 bed, medium security facility located on the eighth floor of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

[1][2][3][4] The LSHCU was established in 1974 as a federally funded pilot program to serve as the DOC's acute care medical facility.

The unit originally consisted of a seven bed ward on the eighth floor of the hospital.

Also by this time, the DOC entered into an agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to provide medical care to state inmates.

In 1982, an out-patient clinic was constructed and in 1987, the last phase of the expansion of the eighth floor was completed.