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47-1-23 - The sexes to be kept separate.

§ 47-1-23. The sexes to be kept separate.
  

It shall be unlawful for convicts of different sexes to be confined or worked together. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 28, art. 3 (15); 1857, ch. 6, art. 131; 1871, § 237; 1880, § 3152; 1892, § 789; 1906, § 874; Hemingway's 1917, §§ 4033, 4034; 1930, § 4072; 1942, § 7913; Laws,  1908, chs. 109, 169; Laws, 1968, ch. 552, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved April 29, 1968).