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Section 622:10 – United States Prisoners.

    622:10 United States Prisoners. – The commissioner of corrections shall receive all convicts sentenced to confinement to hard labor by any court of the United States within this state who may be delivered to him by the marshal of the district or his deputy, and shall safely keep such convicts until discharged by due […]

Section 622:11 – Illegal Privileges.

    622:11 Illegal Privileges. – A person employed in the prisons is guilty of a misdemeanor if he negligently suffers a prisoner to be at large, or to be visited, comforted, or relieved contrary to the regulations of the prisons or the terms of the sentence of the prisoner, and is guilty of a class […]

Section 622:14 – Discipline.

    622:14 Discipline. – The commissioner of corrections may offer suitable encouragement and indulgences to those convicts who distinguish themselves by obedience, industry, and faithfulness, and may punish any convict guilty of insolence or ill language to any officer of the prisons or guilty of obstinate and refractory behavior by solitary imprisonment not more than […]

Section 622:15 – Communication by Inmates with Commissioner of Corrections, etc.

    622:15 Communication by Inmates with Commissioner of Corrections, etc. – Whenever a prisoner desires to communicate with the governor and council, the commissioner of corrections, or the attorney general, he shall be permitted to do so in a direct manner, without any supervision being exercised over his letters by the prison officials or other […]

Section 622:16 – Supplies for Discharged Prisoners.

    622:16 Supplies for Discharged Prisoners. – The commissioner of corrections may furnish, at the expense of the state, to each convict discharged from the prisons a suit of clothes, decent and suitable for the season in which he is discharged, and a sum of money, not more than $ 100. Source. RS 227:16. CS […]

Section 622:17 – Committal of One Held on Civil Process.

    622:17 Committal of One Held on Civil Process. – If any convict sentenced to confinement to hard labor or solitary imprisonment shall, at the time of his sentence, be in custody of the sheriff on civil process, mesne or final, the sheriff shall, on the delivery of such convict to the commissioner of corrections, […]

Section 622:18 – Detention of One Held on Civil Process.

    622:18 Detention of One Held on Civil Process. – The commissioner of corrections shall detain a convict committed under the circumstances provided for in RSA 622:17 by virtue of the civil process as well as of his sentence, and, if, at the expiration of the sentence, the civil process is not withdrawn, discharged, satisfied, […]

Section 622:19 – Execution on Judgment against Commissioner of Corrections.

    622:19 Execution on Judgment against Commissioner of Corrections. – If judgment shall be rendered against a person holding the office of commissioner of corrections, for a sum of money, the execution thereon shall be against his goods, chattels, and lands, but not against his body; and, if the execution is returned unsatisfied, the creditor […]

Section 622:2 – Superintendence.

    622:2 Superintendence. – The state prisons shall be under the superintendence and general management of the commissioner of corrections. Source. RS 227:2, 4. CS 242:2, 4. GS 270:2, 4. 1870, 22:1, 3. GL 288:2, 4. PS 285:2. PL 400:2. 1927, 101:1. RL 464:2. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.

Section 622:2-a – Wardens.

    622:2-a Wardens. – The wardens of the New Hampshire state prisons shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner and shall be unclassified employees qualified by education and experience. Source. 1996, 159:5. 1999, 296:8, eff. Sept. 14, 1999.

Section 622:20 – Failure of Commissioner of Corrections to Pay Judgment.

    622:20 Failure of Commissioner of Corrections to Pay Judgment. – The secretary shall immediately notify the commissioner of corrections thereof, in writing, with the day on which the copy was filed. If the execution shall remain unsatisfied for the space of 90 days after such notification, the commissioner of corrections shall be removed from […]

Section 622:22 – Religious Ministrations.

    622:22 Religious Ministrations. – The rules and regulations established for the government of any prison, county correctional facility, or public charitable or reformatory institution shall provide for suitable religious instruction and ministration to the inmates. Source. 1881, 39:1. PS 285:24. PL 400:25. RL 464:23. RSA 622:22. 1988, 89:24, eff. June 17, 1988.

Section 622:23 – Religious Preferences.

    622:23 Religious Preferences. – The inmates shall have freedom of religious belief and freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences, but this shall not permit anything inconsistent with proper discipline and management or any expense beyond that made under RSA 622:22. Source. 1881, 39:1. PS 285:25. PL 400:26. RL 464:24.

Section 622:24 – Regulations.

    622:24 Regulations. – No person shall deliver or procure to be delivered or have in his or her possession with intent to deliver to a prisoner confined in the state prisons, or deposit or conceal in or about the prisons, or in any building or upon any land appurtenant thereto, or in any vehicle […]

Section 622:25 – Penalty.

    622:25 Penalty. – Any person who violates any provision of RSA 622:24 shall be guilty of a class B felony. Source. 1925, 57:1. PL 400:32. RL 464:30. RSA 622:25. 1973, 528:320, eff. at 11:59 P.M., Oct. 31, 1973.