Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits

§ 509. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed\nvisits. The sheriff of a local correctional facility or his or her\ndesignee may permit any incarcerated individual confined in his or her\nlocal correctional facility to attend the funeral of his or her father,\nmother, guardian or former guardian, child, brother, sister, husband,\nwife, grandparent, grandchild, ancestral uncle or ancestral aunt within\nthe state, or to visit such individual during his or her illness if\ndeath be imminent; but the exercise of such power shall be subject to\nsuch rules and regulations as the commission shall prescribe, respecting\nthe granting of such permission, duration of absence from the\ninstitution, custody, transportation and care of the incarcerated\nindividual, and guarding against escape.\n