(a) All clergy of every denomination shall be admitted free to a Department of Correction prison or may visit any inmate confined therein, subject to such rules as may be necessary to the good government and discipline of the prison, and may administer the rites and ceremonies of the church to which the clergy belong if the inmate desires it.
(b) The Director of the Department of Correction shall afford every facility to a clergy to visit an inmate and to administer rites, ceremonies, and spiritual consolation to an inmate within the rules of the prison.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs
Chapter 29 - Inmates of State Facilities
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 12-29-101. Custody classifications and treatment programs
§ 12-29-102. Inmates denied participation in furlough programs
§ 12-29-104. Contacts with persons outside the institution
§ 12-29-106. Mail to or from inmates
§ 12-29-107. Inmate welfare funds
§ 12-29-108. Cash in possession of inmate — Confiscation
§ 12-29-109. Board action upon violations of § 5-54-119
§ 12-29-110. Selling or trading position, working condition, or promotion — Penalty
§ 12-29-111. Transport of inmate required for legal proceeding
§ 12-29-112. Discharge or release
§ 12-29-113. Notice of escape to law enforcement officers — Penalty
§ 12-29-114. Notice of escape to victim or victim's next of kin
§ 12-29-115. Combination to escape — Authority of guards
§ 12-29-116. Authority of director in case of alarm or danger
§ 12-29-117. Educational, training, and rehabilitative programs
§ 12-29-118. Punitive isolation or solitary confinement of inmates who are minors — Definitions