West Virginia Code § 28-1-8

Offenses relating to youth facilities; penalties; escape; arrest and return
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If any person shall entice or attempt to entice away from any youth facility any youth legally
committed to the same, or shall aid or abet any youth to escape therefrom, or shall harbor,
conceal or aid or abet in harboring or concealing, any youth who shall have escaped
therefrom, or shall, without the permission of the superintendent, give or sell, or aid or abet
any other person to give or sell, to any youth in the youth facility, whether oen the premises
of such institution or otherwise, any money, firearms, intoxicating drinks, tobacco,
cigarettes, or other articles whatsoever, or shall in any way cause or inrfluence, or attempt to
cause or influence or aid or abet therein, any youth in the youth facility to violate any rule of
the institution or to rebel against the government of said facility in any particular, or shall
receive by the hands of any such youth anything of value, whether belonging to the state or
otherwise, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, andt, upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined not less than ten, nor more than $100, or be confined not more than twelve months
in the county jail, or, in the discretion of the court, both fined and imprisoned. The
superintendent, or any of his assistants, or any one authorized in writing by him or any
sheriff, constable, policeman or other peace officer, shall have power, and it is hereby made
his duty, to arrest any youth, when in his power to do so, who shall have escaped from said
facility, and return him thereto.

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