Arizona Title 31 - Prisons and Prisoners
Chapter 1 - JAILS
Article 1 - Personnel and Facilities
- §31-101 Common jails; duty of sheriff; use of jails
- §31-104 Employment of temporary guards
- §31-105 Designation of jail in contiguous county; revocation of designation
- §31-106 Disease in jail; removal of prisoners
- §31-107 Emergency removal of prisoners
Article 2 - Prisoners
- §31-121 Duty of sheriff to receive and provide for prisoners; contracts for furnishing food; city or town prisoners; employment; canteens; special services fund; insurance; education programs
- §31-122 Receiving and keeping federal prisoners
- §31-123 Confinement of person committed to jail
- §31-124 Segregation of prisoners; males and females; minors and adults
- §31-125 Duty of sheriff to deliver judicial papers to prisoner
- §31-126 Examination of certain prisoners for mental disorder
- §31-127 Abuse of prisoner; classification
- §31-128 Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification
- §31-129 Taking prohibited articles into jail; classification
- §31-130 Destruction of or injury to public jail; classification
- §31-131 Operation of inmate industry program; special services fund; application of earnings
- §31-132 Duty to deliver medical records
Article 3 - Labor by Prisoners
- §31-141 Enforcement of sentence imposing hard labor; employment of prisoners; definition
- §31-142 Use of prisoners on public works
- §31-143 Use of prisoners by county engineer
- §31-144 Double time allowance for work done outside jail as trusty
- §31-145 Allowance for hard labor in reduction of fine
- §31-146 Notice of discharge of prisoners sentenced to pay fine or to be imprisoned until payment made
Article 4 - Inmate Health Care
- §31-161 Inmate health care; costs
- §31-162 Inmate health services fund; audit
- §31-163 Subrogation
- §31-164 Inmate health insurance pools
Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
Article 1 - Officers and Employees
- §31-201 Definitions
- §31-201.01 Duties of the director; tort actions; medical treatment costs; state immunity; definitions
- §31-203 Persons disqualified as officers or employees
- §31-204 Interest of employee in contracts; gifts to or from prisoner; penalty
- §31-206 Chaplains; duties; traditional Native American religious practitioners
- §31-207 Payment of claims
Article 2 - Prisoners
- §31-221 Master record file; information from other agencies; confidentiality of file; access; definition
- §31-222 Research and evaluation programs
- §31-223 Use of force by correctional officers
- §31-224 Duty to deliver medical records
- §31-225 Attendance of prisoner in court
- §31-226 Mentally disordered prisoner; procedure for voluntary or involuntary hospitalization; notice; hearing; transfer; reports; return to incarceration or release; costs; definition
- §31-226.01 Emergency transfer procedures
- §31-227 Reimbursing county for expense of prosecution
- §31-228 Procedure for discharge of prisoner; return of property; furnishing money, clothing and transportation ticket; allowing hair to grow before discharge
- §31-229 Functional literacy program; evaluation; certificate; exemptions; wages; definition
- §31-229.01 Functionally literate inmates; education requirement; rules; inmate fees; definition
- §31-229.02 Functionally literate inmates; release eligibility
- §31-230 Prisoner spendable accounts
- §31-231 Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification; definition
- §31-233 Order for removal; purposes; duration; failure to return; classification
- §31-234 Agreements with cities and counties; costs; transfer; participation in programs; custody of director
- §31-235 Prisoner correspondence; definitions
- §31-237 Dedicated discharge accounts
- §31-238 Incarceration costs; setoff
- §31-239 Utility fees
- §31-240 Prisoner education services budget; prohibitions
- §31-241 Inmate complaints to boards; procedure
- §31-242 Internet access; violation; classification; definitions
Article 3 - Labor by Prisoners
- §31-250 Definition of work crew
- §31-251 Hard labor required of prisoners; labor classification; definition
- §31-251.01 Definition
- §31-252 Use of prisoners in public works; cooperative prisoner labor system; definitions
- §31-253 Use of prisoners in prison construction; definition
- §31-254 Compensation for labor performed; price of prison made articles; distribution of earnings; workers' compensation
- §31-255 Alcohol abuse treatment fund
Article 4 - Products of Prisoners
Article 5 - Correctional Facility Construction
Article 6 - Transition Program
- §31-281 Transition program; drug offenders; report
- §31-282 Contracted entities; duties; services; definition
- §31-283 Transition offices; location; duties
- §31-284 Transition office fund
- §31-285 Transition program release; report
- §31-286 Transition program drug treatment fund
- §31-287 Program termination
Article 10 - Prisoner Participation in Medical Research and Plasmapheresis and Whole Blood Programs
- §31-321 Prisoner participation in approved programs
- §31-322 Approval of programs
- §31-323 Compensation for prisoner participation in approved programs; trust fund or retention account
Article 11 - Work Furlough Program
- §31-331 Definitions
- §31-332 Applicability
- §31-333 Work furlough
- §31-334 Earnings of prisoner
- §31-335 Time credits
- §31-336 Improper conduct
Article 12 - Escape
Chapter 3 - EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
Article 1 - Board of Executive Clemency
- §31-401 Board of executive clemency; qualifications; appointment; officers; quorum; meeting; executive director
- §31-402 Powers of board; powers and duties of governor; powers and duties of executive director
- §31-403 Commutation; restrictions on consideration
Article 2 - Paroles
- §31-411 Parole or discharge; conditions of parole; release under supervision of state department of corrections; notice of hearing; exceptions
- §31-411.01 Parole or community supervision for persons previously convicted of possession or use of marijuana, a dangerous drug or a narcotic drug; treatment; prevention; education; termination of parole or community supervision
- §31-412 Criteria for release on parole; release; custody of parolee; definition
- §31-413 Duty of department of corrections to assist in securing employment for parolees and prisoners
- §31-414 Absolute discharge of parolee; effect; notice to victim
- §31-415 Violation of parole or community supervision; warrant for retaking parolee or offender on community supervision
- §31-416 Execution of warrant to take paroled prisoner or offender on community supervision; expenses
- §31-417 Notification to board of parole violator; hearing; reimprisonment
- §31-418 Community supervision fee; deposit
Article 3 - Reprieves, Commutations, and Pardons
- §31-441 Application for pardon; statement of facts proved at trial
- §31-442 Application for pardon; notice; exceptions
- §31-443 Power of governor to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons
- §31-444 Power of governor to suspend sentence for treason pending consideration by legislature
- §31-445 Publication of reasons for granting a commutation, pardon, reprieve, stay or suspension of execution
- §31-446 Report to legislature
Article 4 - Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers
- §31-461 Compact; authorization; contents; effect
- §31-462 Parole or probation violation; retaking; notice; hearing; custody pending hearing
- §31-463 Hearing officer
- §31-464 Hearing rights of parolee or probationer
- §31-465 Hearings in other states; effect
- §31-466 Supervision fee; deposit
Article 4.1 - Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders
- §31-467 Adoption of interstate compact for the supervision of adult offenders
- §31-467.01 Parole or probation violation; retaking; notice; hearing; custody pending hearing
- §31-467.02 Hearing officer
- §31-467.03 Hearing rights of parolee or probationer
- §31-467.04 Hearings in other states; effect
- §31-467.05 Extradition; retrieval
- §31-467.06 Supervision fee; deposit
Article 5 - Western Interstate Corrections Compact
- §31-471 Western interstate corrections compact
- §31-472 Commitment or transfer of inmate; prohibition against transfer of inmate sentenced under Arizona law to institution outside state in absence of consent; irrevocability of consent
- §31-473 Enforcement of compact; hearings in compliance with compact
- §31-474 Contracts implementing state's participation in compact; prerequisite approval; authorized provisions; determination of suitability of institution and confinement
- §31-475 Right of transferred prisoner on release from prison outside this state