COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 202
(By Senators Love, Hunter and Bailey)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported February 3, 2000.]
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A BILL to repeal section eight, article five, chapter
twenty-eight of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring that
male and female inmates be kept separate; and providing for
the care of infants born in the penitentiary.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. THE PENITENTIARY.
§1. Repeal of section relating to keeping male and female
convicts separate and providing for infants born in the
penitentiary.
Section eight, article five, chapter twenty-eight of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, is
hereby repealed.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of
the code requiring that male and female inmates be kept separate
and that infants born to female inmates be removed from the
penitentiary as soon as practicable.)