NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 966

SENATE BILL 276

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE STATE PRISON DEPARTMENT FROM USING UNGUARDED MALE PRISON LABOR IN STATE BUILDINGS WHERE WOMEN ARE HOUSED OR EMPLOYED OR IN STATE BUILDINGS WHERE WOMEN FREQUENT AND USE SAID BUILDINGS FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES.

 

WHEREAS, the practice of using unguarded male convicts or prison labor in State buildings where women are housed and employed, and in State buildings used and frequented by women for business purposes is dangerous and unsafe and has resulted in a young woman being criminally assaulted by a male convict in a Drivers License Station in Vance County and in an assault on a woman by a male convict working as an elevator operator in a State building in Wake County: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 148‑33 is hereby amended by adding at the end of the Section another proviso which shall read as follows:

"Provided, further, that not withstanding any provisions of law contained in this Article or in this Chapter, no male prisoner or group of male prisoners may be assigned to work in any building utilized by any State department, agency, or institution where women are housed or employed unless a duly designated custodial agent of the Director of Prisons is assigned to the building to maintain supervision and control of the prisoner or prisoners working there."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.