Madera County Municipal Code Ch. 9.04 Prisoners

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For statutory provision regarding the rights of prisoners to visit attorneys, see Penal Code §825; for visitation of female prisoners, see Penal Code §4020.7 et seq.; for regulation of visitation by vagrants, see Penal Code §4572.

The sheriff of the county and his deputies are authorized to prevent any person or persons from loitering about the county jail or the walls thereof, and to prevent any person or persons from interviewing or addressing by word or sign from the outside, any prisoner within said jail. The prevention method intended herein is first by verbal warning to withdraw from proximity to said jail or the walls thereof, or to desist from interviewing or addressing any such prisoner as the case may be. The second step in the prevention method intended herein is by arrest and prosecution of the offender as provided in Section 9.04.020.

(Ord. 116 §1, 1909).

Whenever the sheriff or his deputies have given the warning to any person as provided in Section 9.04.010, and such person so warned, thereafter loiters about the county jail or the walls thereof, or interviews, addresses, or attempts to interview or address, either by word or sign from without the jail any prisoner within the jail, such person is deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and tried and punished therefor as now provided by law.

(Ord. 116 §2, 1909).