Posted: 7/31/2010 3:41:40 AM EDT
| I was going to be visiting my brother in jaul today and the silly question is is it lawful for me to carfry it there and have it checked and left with the guard or is it best left at home? I dont want to be arrested myself or anything like that. |
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If NH is anything like ME, leave it home. It's a major no-no. In most facilities I've seen, COs who are on the floors can't even have firearms.
I used to visit a friend in the Maine Correctional Facilty. Car keys and photo id were the only things allowed inside the wire, and we had to leave the keys at the guard station before we could enter the visiting area. |
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NH is nothing like ME or CT. The only place prohibited by statute is a courthouse, and they're required to check your weapon at the door. But, best not to guess about these things. Look 'em up. Here you go. [DISCLAIMER: This is not legal advice. These are just rules and statutes cut and past from the internet. Do with them what you wish and realize that everything here could be incomplete or just total bullshit. You never know].
Dept. of Corrections Administrative Rules define, amongst other things, firearms and ammunition as contraband: PART Cor 306 CONTROL OF CONTRABAND ON DEPARTMENTAL PROPERTY Cor 306.01 Contraband. (a) Items identified as contraband shall fall into 2 general categories: (1) Items not allowed anywhere on departmental property; and (2) Items not allowed inside departmental facilities that must be secured either in a visitor’s vehicle or within a locker available in a visitor reception area. (b) Contraband items not allowed anywhere on departmental property shall consist of the following: (1) Any substance or item whose possession is unlawful for the person or the general public possessing it; (2) Any explosive device, bomb, grenade, dynamite or dynamite cap or detonating device including primers, primer cord, explosive powder or similar items or simulations of these items; and (3) Lock-picking kits or tools or instructions on picking locks, making keys or making surreptitious entry or exit. (c) Neither visitors from the general public nor DOC employees shall be permitted to have in their possession items not allowed anywhere on departmental property. (d) Contraband not allowed inside departmental facilities shall include the following: (1) Any firearm, simulated firearm, or device designed to propel or guide a projectile against a person, animal or target; (2) Any bullets, cartridges, projectiles or similar items designed to be projected against a person, animal or target; (3) Any drug item, whether medically prescribed or not, in excess of a one day supply or in such quantities that a person would suffer intoxication or illness if the entire available quantity were consumed alone or in combination with other available substances; (4) Any intoxicating beverages; (5) Knives and knife-like weapons; (6) Clubs and club-like weapons; (7) Maps of the prison vicinity or sketches or drawings or pictorial representations of the facilities, its grounds or its vicinity; (8) Sums of money or negotiable instruments in excess of $100; (9) Pornography or pictures of visitors or prospective visitors undressed; (10) Radios capable of monitoring or transmitting on the police band in the possession of other than law enforcement officials; (11) Identification documents, licenses and credentials not in the possession of the person to whom properly issued; (12) Ropes, saws, grappling hooks, fishing line, masks, artificial beards or mustaches, cutting wheels, or string, rope or line impregnated with cutting material, or similar items to facilitate escapes; (13) Balloons, condoms, false-bottomed containers, or other containers which could be used to facilitate transfer of contraband; and (14) Tobacco products, except those secured in a visitor’s locked vehicle. (e) Visitors from the general public, and DOC staff, when the items are not owned or issued by the department, shall secure items that are not allowed inside any departmental facility either in a visitor’s vehicle or within a locker available in a visitor reception area. The rules also say: Cor 306.02 Contraband on Departmental Property Prohibited. The possession, transport, introduction, use, sale or storage of contraband on departmental property shall be prohibited under the provisions of RSA 622:24 and RSA 622:25. Go to RSA 622:24 and you see that bringing contraband into the facility or onto the property with the intent to deliver it to a prisoner is prohibited. 622:24 Regulations. – No person shall deliver or procure to be delivered or have in his possession with intent to deliver to a prisoner confined in the state prisons, or deposit or conceal in or about the prisons, or in any building or upon any land appurtenant thereto, or in any vehicle entering the premises belonging to the prisons, any article with intent that a prisoner shall receive or obtain it, or receive from a prisoner any article with intent to convey it out of the prisons, or bring into or attempt to take from the prisons any article contrary to the rules and regulations established by the commissioner of corrections and without the knowledge and permission of the commissioner of corrections. Violation is a Class B felony under RSA 622:25. The rule, therefore, appears to define firearms as contraband that isn't allowed within the facility, but not prohibited entirely from the property, and appears to provide for checking within a locker in a visitors reception area. Bottom line? Call and find out about their procedures so you don't surprise anybody in the reception area. If they say you can't do it at all, cite the rule and ask them why not. Maybe different personnel have different familiarity with the rules. If they insist, be very careful about being a crusader. Though I must admit, I admire crusaders, if they're in the right. CAVEAT. BIG F'ING CAVEAT: If it's a federal prison facility, all bets are off. Federal rules and statutes prohibit possession of firearms on nearly all federal property and in federal facilities. Don't bring a gun anywhere near them. Don't even say "gun" anywhere near a federal prison facility. |