The Department of Correction has denied Alan Gell's former girlfriend and their son permission to visit the former death row inmate in prison.

Gell is back in prison, serving a five-year sentence for taking indecent liberties with a minor. The minor in question is his former girlfriend, Olivia Harris of Ahoskie. She is the mother of Gell's child, 18-month-old Sean Michael Gell, Joe Neff reports.

During the year and a half that Gell spent awaiting trial in the Bertie-Martin Regional Jail, Harris and Sean made weekly visits to see Gell.

After Gell pleaded guilty and was moved to the state prison system, Harris and her son applied for visitation privileges. The Department of Correction turned them down.

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