NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1174

SENATE BILL 571

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 148 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 148-20 is rewritten to read as follows:

"Corporal Punishment of Prisoners. It is unlawful for the Director of Prisons or any other person having the care, custody, or control of any prisoner in this State to make or enforce any rule, or regulation providing for the whipping, flogging, or administration of any similar corporal punishment of any prisoner, or to give any specific order for or cause to be administered or personally to administer or inflict any such corporal punishment."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 148-44 is rewritten to read as follows:

"The Department shall provide quarters for female prisoners separate from those for male prisoners; and shall provide for separate facilities for youthful offenders as required by §§ 15‑210 to 15-215."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 148-55 is amended by striking out the last sentence of subsection (a).

Sec. 4.  In all instances where the words "Commissioner of Pardons" appear in Article 8 of Chapter 148 of the General Statutes, said words are stricken out, and the words "Board of Paroles" are inserted in lieu thereof.

Sec. 5.  G.S. 148-21, G.S. 148-43, G.S. 148-75 and all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1963.