Any jail, lockup, or other place of detention in charge of any officer of the state or of any county, city, or town thereof, shall at all reasonable hours be accessible to any member of the division for detention of prisoners; and a keeper thereof refusing to any member of the division the use of the jail, lockup, or other place of detention shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). History of Section.P.L. 1925, ch. 588, § 13; G.L. 1938, ch. 8, § 14; G.L. 1956, § 42-28-18.
Rhode Island Legal Code