Section 618. Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories

1. It shall also  be  the  duty  of  the  commissioner  to continue to make or have impressions made of the finger
  and thumbprints of all inmates in any  of  the  institutions  under  the
  jurisdiction of the department; in his discretion, to cause said inmates
  to  be measured and described; and to cause to be obtained and recorded,
  so far as possible, modus operandi statements  of  said  inmates.    The
  commissioner  shall  cause  such impressions and measurements of persons
  confined in state correctional institutions to be made by  a  person  or
  persons  in  the  official  service  of the state in conformity with the
  system now in use in the division  of  criminal  justice  services,  and
  shall  prescribe  rules and regulations for obtaining and recording such
  modus operandi statements, and for  keeping  accurate  records  of  such
  impressions,  measurements  and  statements,  in  the  offices  of  such
  institutions.
    2. It is hereby made the duty of the officials having  charge  of  all
  the  penitentiaries  and  county  jails  in  the  state to cause inmates
  confined therein under  sentence  for  any  crime  to  be  measured  and
  described  and  the  fingerprint  impressions of such inmates to be made
  according to the rules and methods prescribed  by  the  commissioner  of
  criminal  justice  services. It shall also be the duty of such officials
  in charge of such institutions to  procure  so  far  as  possible  modus
  operandi  statements  from all such prisoners.  And it shall be the duty
  of such officials to  cause  duplicate  records  of  such  measurements,
  impressions  and  statements to be made, two copies to be transmitted to
  the division of  criminal  justice  services  within  twenty-four  hours
  following   the   time   of  the  reception  of  such  inmates  in  said
  institutions.
    3. There shall continue to be maintained in the various state prisons,
  penitentiaries, reformatories and other penal institutions of the  state
  during  the time that prisoners are therein confined complete individual
  case histories of each prisoner so confined.