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2024 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 3 - OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY
TITLE 5 - OFFENSES RELATING TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS
CHAPTER 3 - Unauthorized Communications With Prisons and Prisoners
Section 4570.
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CA Penal Code § 4570 (2024)
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4570. Every person who, without the permission of the warden or other officer in charge of any State prison, or prison road camp, or prison forestry camp, or other prison camp or prison farm or any other place where prisoners of the State prison are located under the custody of prison officials, officers or employees, or any jail, or any county road camp in this State, communicates with any prisoner or person detained therein, or brings therein or takes therefrom any letter, writing, literature, or reading matter to or from any prisoner or person confined therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Amended by Stats. 1943, Ch. 108.)
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