Colin A. Young State House News Service Eleven women serving sentences with the state Department of Correction were transferred into Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian's custody March 1 as his office launches a pre-release center for women preparing to re-enter their communities and reunite with their families. The Middlesex sheriff's office already offers some services to women awaiting trial on Middlesex County cases at MCI-Framingham, but Koutoujian's office said Monday was the first time in more than 50 years that the office has assumed direct supervision of incarcerated women. The new program at the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction in Billerica is designed to make medication-assisted treatment, education and reentry programs that are already available to male inmates accessible to women serving sentences too.