24-1-26.1. Sexual acts prohibited between prison employees and prisoners--Felony.
Any person, employed by the state, or employed within any state prison or other detention facility, who knowingly engages in an act of sexual penetration, as defined in §22-22-2, or sexual contact, as defined in §22-22-7.1, with another person who is in detention and under the custodial, supervisory, or disciplinary authority of the person so engaging, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Source: SL 1996, ch 151, §1; SL 2022, ch 77, §1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 24 - Penal Institutions, Probation and Parole
Chapter 01 - Management Of State Penitentiary
Section 24-1-1 - Penitentiary as general state prison.
Section 24-1-4 - Government of penitentiary by Department of Corrections.
Section 24-1-6 - Appointment and removal of warden.
Section 24-1-8 - Salary of warden.
Section 24-1-12 - Service of process within penitentiary--Officers exempt from jury duty.
Section 24-1-13 - Warden as custodian of all penitentiary property.
Section 24-1-16 - Penitentiary purchases.
Section 24-1-26 - Penitentiary employees prohibited from involvement in procuring clemencies.
Section 24-1-26.1 - Sexual acts prohibited between prison employees and prisoners--Felony.
Section 24-1-27 - Disposition of body of dead inmate--Notice to next of kin.
Section 24-1-35 - Contract with local jail for custody and care of prisoners.
Section 24-1-36 - Notice to sentencing judge of inmate's change of status.