In case of any pestilence or contagious sickness breaking out among the convicts, the corrections division [corrections department] may cause the convicts confined therein or any of them to be removed to some suitable place of security where such of them as may be sick shall receive necessary medical attention and such convicts must be returned as soon as may be to the penitentiary to be confined according to their respective sentences, if the same be unexpired.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 16; C.L. 1897, § 3505; Code 1915, § 5066; C.S. 1929, § 130-149; 1941 Comp., § 45-150; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-50; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 75.
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.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 72 C.J.S. Prisons and Rights of Prisoners § 85.
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