5902 - Contraband prohibited.
§ 5902. Contraband prohibited. (a) Alcohol and drugs.--No spirituous or fermented liquor, drug, medicine, poison, opium, morphine or any other kind or character of narcotic shall, on any pretense whatever: (1) be sold or given away in a correctional institution or in any building appurtenant thereto, or on the land granted to or owned or leased by the Commonwealth for the use and benefit of inmates; or (2) be brought into a correctional institution or any building appurtenant thereto, or on to the land granted to or owned or leased by the Commonwealth for the use of and benefit of inmates, without a written permit signed by the physician of the correctional institution specifying the quantity and quality of the liquor or narcotic which may be furnished to the inmate or employee in the prison and the name of the inmate or employee for whom and the time when the liquor or narcotic may be furnished, except the ordinary hospital supply of the prisons. (b) Permit.--The permit shall be delivered to and kept by the chief administrator. (c) No secured storage.--No spirituous or fermented liquor, drug, medicine, poison, opium, morphine or any other kind or character of narcotic shall be sold, given away or furnished, either directly or indirectly, to an inmate, either in or anywhere outside of the correctional institution, or be disposed of in such manner or in such a place that it may be secured by an inmate or employee of the prison. (d) Tobacco.--Tobacco may be supplied and used, subject to such regulations as may be adopted by the chief administrator. (e) Weapons.--No weapon or other implement which may be used to injure an inmate or person or in assisting an inmate to escape from imprisonment shall: (1) be sold, given away or furnished to an inmate in any correctional institution or any building appurtenant thereto or on the land granted to or owned or leased by the Commonwealth for the use and benefit of inmates; (2) be brought into any correctional institution or any building appurtenant thereto or on to the land granted to or owned or leased by the Commonwealth for the use and benefit of inmates; or (3) be sold, given away or furnished, either directly or indirectly, to an inmate, either in or anywhere outside of the correctional institution, or be disposed of in such a manner or in such a place that it may be secured by an inmate in the correctional institution. (f) Searches.--A chief administrator may search or cause to have searched any person coming to the correctional institution as a visitor, or in any other capacity, who is suspected of having upon his person: (1) any weapon or other implement which may be used to injure an inmate or any other person or in assisting an inmate to escape from imprisonment; or (2) any spirituous or fermented liquor, drug, medicine, poison, opium, morphine or any other kind or character of narcotic. (g) Penalty.--A person who violates any of the provisions of this section commits a felony and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.