Visitors

The following persons are authorized to visit the penitentiary at pleasure: the governor, judges of the supreme court and the secretary of the criminal justice department [corrections department] or his duly authorized representative; and no other persons shall be permitted to go within the walls of the penitentiary where the convicts are confined except by permission of the warden. History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 18; C.L. 1897, § 3507; Code 1915, § 5033; C.S. 1929, § 130-116; Laws 1939, ch. 55, § 11; 1941 Comp., § 45-121; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-21; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 69.