AB 805

This bill provides that any visitor to a state correctional institution or county

jail or house of correction must be registered as a visitor of the inmate he or she is

visiting and that inmates may designate up to 25 individuals to be registered as his

or her visitors. The bill outlines a process that must be followed to unregister a

visitor.

The bill requires the Department of Corrections to allow inmates of state

correctional institutions and sheriffs to allow inmates of county jails or houses of

correction at least two in-person visiting periods per week unless the inmate is

subject to a lockdown or is in solitary confinement. If the inmate is subject to a

lockdown or is in solitary confinement, DOC or the sheriff may deny visits for a period

not to exceed 10 consecutive days.

The bill requires the warden or superintendent of a state correctional

institution or the sheriff for a county jail or house of correction to allow an inmate

to physically embrace each visitor for at least 20 seconds at the beginning and end

of each visiting period.

The bill requires the warden or superintendent of a state correctional

institution or the sheriff for a county jail or house of correction to provide visitors with

paper, a pen or pencil, and crayons or markers to use during a visit and requires that

inmates be allowed to keep an original note, drawing, or other original work if it was

created during a visit using those materials that were provided by the warden,

superintendent, or sheriff.