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.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
See compiler's notes to 33-2-1 NMSA 1978.
Strip searches of prison visitors can be justified on basis of reasonable suspicion, but only if such searches are conducted as part of a prison procedure that informs visitors before being searched that they have the right to refuse to be searched, in which case they will be escorted off the prison grounds. State v. Garcia, 1993-NMCA-105, 116 N.M. 87, 860 P.2d 217.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 60 Am. Jur. 2d Penal and Correctional Institutions §§ 78, 80, 84.
Right of jailed or imprisoned parent to visit from minor child, 15 A.L.R.4th 1234.
72 C.J.S. Prisons and Rights of Prisoners § 105.
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