Separation of prisoners

17-26-105. Separation of prisoners. Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial and persons committed for contempt or upon civil process shall be kept in rooms separate and distinct from those in which prisoners convicted and under sentence are confined. This section shall not apply to any county whose jail does not have sufficient room for such separate confinement. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 936, � 10, effective August 1. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 27-26-105 as it existed prior to 1977.