The Text

The legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated, or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory character, excepting state institutions for the education and support of the blind and the deaf and dumb, and excepting also such institutions as are hereby made subject to the visitation and inspection of either of the authorities hereinafter mentioned, but including all reformatories for juveniles. The head of the department of mental hygiene shall visit and inspect all institutions, either public or private, used for the care and treatment of the insane, epileptics, idiots, feeble-minded or mentally defective. There shall be a state commission of correction, of which the head of the department of correction shall be chairman, which shall visit and inspect all institutions used for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or detained as witnesses or debtors.