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CHAPTER 236 AN ACT ALLOWING PASTORAL COUNSELING OF PRISONERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chapter 127 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 36A the following section:-

Section 36B. The superintendent shall not abridge the right of an inmate of any correctional or penal institution in the commonwealth to confer with any accredited member of the clergy of said inmate's choice. Said clergy may visit inmates at such times and under such conditions as may be established under rules promulgated by the commissioner.

Approved August 16, 1985.