The corrections division [corrections department] shall make such rules and regulations for the government, discipline and police of the penitentiary, and for the punishment of the prisoners confined therein, not inconsistent with the law, as it may deem expedient, and until such regulations are made, the regulations now in force shall continue in force. The division [department] shall exercise a general superintendence and control over the government and disipline [discipline] of the penitentiary, cause such rules and regulations as it may prescribe for the government and discipline of the penitentiary to be printed and placed in some conspicuous place therein, and shall visit the said penitentiary once in each month, and inspect the same.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 8; C.L. 1897, § 3498; Code 1915, § 5031; C.S. 1929, § 130-114; 1941 Comp., § 45-119; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-19; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 67.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed 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.
Cross references. — For duty of warden to keep record of infractions, see 33-2-32 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Liability for death of or injury to prisoner, 46 A.L.R. 94, 50 A.L.R. 268, 61 A.L.R. 569.
Constitutionality of statutes in relation to treatment or discipline of convicts, 50 A.L.R. 104.
Sterilization of criminals or defectives, 53 A.L.R.3d 960.
Propriety of telephone testimony or hearings in prison proceedings, 9 A.L.R.5th 451.
Validity under federal law of prison regulations relating to inmates' hair length and style, 62 A.L.R. Fed. 479.
72 C.J.S. Prisons and Rights of Prisoner § 75.