Section 26. Whoever gives, sells or delivers alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, to a person confined in any correctional institution or other place of confinement, or to a person in the custody of a sheriff, constable, police officer, superintendent of a correctional institution, or other superintendent or keeper of a place of confinement, or has in his possession, within the precincts of any prison or other place of confinement, any such beverages, with intent to convey or deliver them to any person confined therein, except under the direction of the physician appointed to attend such prisoner, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months.