Juvenile prisoners shall be treated with humaneness and in a manner calculated to promote their reformation and they shall be kept separate from more experienced and hardened criminals. Visits of parents, guardians and friends who desire to exert a moral influence over them shall at all reasonable times be permitted.

R.L. 1910, § 4622; Amended by Laws 1978, HB 1478, c. 244, § 16, emerg. eff. July 1, 1978.