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California Penal Code

§ 171

PEN § 171Title 7 · Part 1 · Ch. 7

Statute text

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Every person, not authorized by law, who, without the permission of the officer in charge of any reformatory in this State, communicates with any person detained therein, or brings therein or takes therefrom any letter, writing, literature, or reading matter to or from any person confined therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106.

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