An Act of 1911 relating to Visitors to Prisons.
No letters, notes, monies, or contraband goods of any kind shall be brought into or taken out of any Prison, except after inspection and with the permission of the Warden.
The Warden or Superintendent of the Prison is hereby authorized to search or to have searched any person coming to the Prison as a visitor, or in any other capacity, who is suspected of having any weapon or other implement which may be used to injure any convict or person, or in assisting any convict to escape from imprisonment, or any spirituous liquor, drug, medicine, poison, opium, morphine, or any other kind or character of narcotics, upon his person.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the State Prison not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court.
Approved the eleventh day of May, A. D. 1911.
John K. Tener,
Governor.
REPORT OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE
For the Year 1910 to the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Prison Society.
During the year 1910 the monthly meetings of the Acting Committee have been regularly held with the usual exception of two meetings of the summer months.
It has been a year of much interest and importance to students of penology and especially to the active workers who have charge of our prisons and reformatories.