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TITLE XIII CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS (217-221)
Chapter 217 Department of Corrections
DEPARTMENT, ORGANIZATION, POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Section 217.010 Definitions.
- Section 217.015 Divisions created--sections authorized--purpose of department--women offender program established, purpose--advisory committee established, membership, purpose.
- Section 217.020 Department's powers and duties.
- Section 217.022 Prison impact statements, required, when.
- Section 217.025 Director of department, appointment, qualifications, bond, duties.
- Section 217.030 Directors of divisions and chairman of board of probation and parole, appointment--appointment of general personnel.
- Section 217.035 Director's powers and duties--deputy director, appointment, compensation, powers in absence or incapacity of director.
- Section 217.040 Rulemaking authority.
- Section 217.043 United States government, contract powers of department.
- Section 217.045 Federal funds, authority to receive--applications for funds, procedure.
- Section 217.050 Department to sue in name of director--interest authorized.
- Section 217.055 Volunteer program requirements--coverage as unpaid employees by legal expense fund and workers' compensation--use of state vehicles--expenses.
- Section 217.070 State auditor to have access to all records, confidentiality.
- Section 217.075 Offender records, public records, exceptions--inspection of, when--access to medical records--copies admissible as evidence--violations, penalty.
- Section 217.080 Department and division to maintain central office in Jefferson City.
- Section 217.090 Lease of buildings on grounds of correctional centers, when--compatibility with services of department required--procedure--bids required--cost--terms of lease--how executed.
- Section 217.092 Leased prison space, deposit of payments.
- Section 217.095 Condemnation powers, when, procedure.
- Section 217.100 Director may enter into agreement for services to department by other state departments or agencies.
- Section 217.110 Workers' compensation to cover all employees of the department.
- Section 217.115 Officers and employees, restrictions on business connections--conversion of department property prohibited, exception--violations, grounds for dismissal.
- Section 217.120 Bribery or receipt of gifts from prisoners by officers or employees of department, penalty--duty to report, failure, effect--director to investigate and report, when.
- Section 217.125 Offenders, labor restrictions.
- Section 217.128 Employee held hostage eligible for paid leave of absence.
- Section 217.130 Living quarters furnished to employees, fees.
- Section 217.135 Food furnished in correctional center, employees to purchase, exception.
- Section 217.137 Prisoner transfers by United States treaty with foreign governments--governor's powers--director's duties.
- Section 217.138 Construction of correctional centers by private entities for state and political subdivisions--housing of state's offenders in city or county jails, costs.
- Section 217.139 Sexual offenders of children, pilot treatment program--costs, how paid--department's duties--annual report.
- Section 217.141 Electrified security fence systems authorized.
- Section 217.147 Sentencing and corrections oversight commission, members, terms, duties, report, expiration date.
- Section 217.160 Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel--qualifications--to be full-time employee.
- Section 217.165 Chief administrative officers of each correctional center, appointment.
- Section 217.170 Chief administrative officers, duties.
- Section 217.175 Rules and regulations, division director's authority to promulgate.
- Section 217.180 Annual report of division, contents.
- Section 217.185 Reports by chief administrative officers, monthly, to division director, contents.
- Section 217.195 Canteen to be established, revenues how spent--inmate canteen fund established, purpose, not to go into general revenue.
- Section 217.197 Offender personal property, allowed when--unauthorized property, disposition of.
- Section 217.210 Capacity of correctional centers, how determined--emergency assignment.
- Section 217.220 Death sentence commutation, admittance to correctional center.
- Section 217.225 Federal prisoners, admittance--escapees, how punished--neglect of federal prisoners, liability.
- Section 217.230 Health care services for correctional centers.
- Section 217.235 Chaplain, appointment or arrangement for religious services.
- Section 217.240 Food and clothing of offenders--food deprivation not to be used as punishment.
- Section 217.245 Medical excuse from participation in required activities, procedure.
- Section 217.250 Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement will endanger or shorten life, report to governor, procedure.
- Section 217.255 Compensation of offenders for labor, academic or vocational classes--hours of work, exceptions--payment to state or crime victims' compensation fund, when.
- Section 217.260 Earnings of offender, paid when--how used, payment to families, when--department powers.
- Section 217.262 Frivolous lawsuits, false testimony, abuse of judicial system by offender--sanctions.
- Section 217.265 Visitors, regulation of--clergymen's privileges.
- Section 217.270 Probation and parole board to have access to offenders and records, when.
- Section 217.275 Carrying letters or writings without authorization prohibited, penalty.
- Section 217.280 Firearms may be carried by designated employees--powers of arrest and apprehension.
- Section 217.285 Clothing, money, transportation, return of personal property to discharged or paroled prisoners--exception.
- Section 217.300 Reception and diagnostic centers for classification of prisoners to be established.
- Section 217.305 Delivery of prisoners to correctional centers with certain required information.
- Section 217.310 Examination of new prisoners--identification data recorded.
- Section 217.315 System of identification, department to establish.
- Section 217.320 Identification systems, officers not liable for acts done in enforcing law.
- Section 217.325 Identification system mandatory.
- Section 217.330 Department to conduct tests--assignment of offender.
- Section 217.335 Classification teams, established--appointment, qualifications, duties.
- Section 217.337 Schedule of activities, work, and program, adherence to, exemption.
- Section 217.343 Emancipation of certain juvenile offenders for certain purposes.
- Section 217.345 First offenders--mandatory program--physical separation of offenders less than eighteen years of age--rules--contract for provision of services--evaluation process.
- Section 217.350 Transfer of offender, when.
- Section 217.355 Education programs established, what included, enrollment required, when.
- Section 217.360 (Repealed L. 2014 S.B. 491 § A)
- Section 217.362 Program for offenders with substance abuse addiction--eligibility, disposition, placement--completion, effect.
- Section 217.364 Offenders under treatment program, placement, rules--eligibility--use, purpose, availability--failure to complete.
- Section 217.365 Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband.
- Section 217.370 Discipline and grievance procedures established--chief administrative officer to abide by.
- Section 217.375 Administrative segregation, grounds for--review hearing required--records to be kept--access to medical personnel.
- Section 217.380 Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required--disciplinary segregation, hearing, time period.
- Section 217.385 Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty.
- Section 217.390 Escape, defined--penalty.
- Section 217.395 Escapee's apprehension--reward may be offered, limitations.
- Section 217.400 Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty.
- Section 217.405 Offender abuse, penalty--employees not to use physical force, exception.
- Section 217.410 Abuse of offender, duty to report, penalty--confidentiality of report, immunity from liability--harassment prohibited.
- Section 217.412 Autopsy required, when--reports to be maintained by department.
- Section 217.415 Disqualification from holding position in correctional facility, when.
- Section 217.420 Surgery, general anesthetic not authorized for offender without consent or court order, exceptions, emergencies--treatment against religious beliefs, when allowed.
- Section 217.425 Furlough of prisoners, when--time limitations, exceptions--waiver required, when--notice requirements.
- Section 217.430 Residential treatment centers and community based sanctions--assignment of offenders--contracts to establish, provisions, locations--payments, how made--inmates fund established, use--regulation of inmates.
- Section 217.435 Work or educational release program.
- Section 217.437 Work by offenders, not employment, when--benefitting entity immune from suit, exceptions.
- Section 217.439 Photograph of offender to be taken prior to release, when--provided to victim upon request.
- Section 217.440 Program of restorative justice, requirements.
- Section 217.450 Offender may request final disposition of pending indictment, information or complaint, how requested--director to notify offender of pending actions, failure to notify, effect.
- Section 217.455 Director of division of adult institutions to transmit information and request.
- Section 217.460 Trial to be held, when--failure, effect.
- Section 217.465 Escape by offender, effect of.
- Section 217.470 Transportation expenses, how paid.
- Section 217.475 Director of division of adult institutions to inform prisoner of the law in writing.
- Section 217.480 Uniformity of construction.
- Section 217.485 Title of the law.
- Section 217.490 Agreement on detainers adopted--compact text.
- Section 217.495 Appropriate court defined.
- Section 217.500 Enforcement and cooperation required of whom.
- Section 217.505 Compact not to require application of habitual offender law.
- Section 217.510 Escape by offender, effect on.
- Section 217.515 Chief administrative officer to deliver offender, when.
- Section 217.520 Governor to designate administrator.
- Section 217.525 Director authorized to contract with United States for stated purposes.
- Section 217.530 Convicted offender not to be transferred to state where wanted for crime.
- Section 217.535 Compact adopted--text--contract must comply.
- Section 217.540 Powers and duties of director, delegation authorized.
- Section 217.541 House arrest program, department to establish and regulate--limited release, when--offenders to fund program--arrest warrant may be issued by probation or parole officer, when.
- Section 217.542 Failure to return to house arrest, felony.
- Section 217.543 House arrest authorized for certain prisoners--jailer to establish program--remote electronic surveillance allowed--percentage of prisoner's wage to pay cost--violation penalty--(St. Louis City).
- Section 217.550 Prison industries and services program created--director to administer--approval required--report submitted to director, contents.
- Section 217.555 Advisory board, created, members, appointment, qualifications--duties--compensation.
- Section 217.560 Enterprise program diversification and purpose.
- Section 217.565 Director to provide plants, machinery and materials--distribution of products.
- Section 217.567 Director may contract with private entities for employment of inmates--leasing of correctional facility property--wages, director to set policies.
- Section 217.570 Sales of prison industry goods and services, procedure--open market sales, when.
- Section 217.575 Sales of goods or services to state or political subdivisions--promotion--price--certification of nonavailability required for state purchases, when.
- Section 217.580 Catalog of products furnished public officers--institutions to report estimates of needs.
- Section 217.590 Violations of sections 217.575 and 217.580, penalty.
- Section 217.592 Plasmapheresis program may be established as private enterprise on institution grounds--inmate employment, wages.
- Section 217.595 Working capital revolving fund created--source, uses--accounting, audit--transfer to general revenue prohibited.
- Section 217.650 Definitions.
- Section 217.655 Probation and parole board, general duties.
- Section 217.660 Chairman of the board to be director--additional compensation.
- Section 217.665 Board members, appointment, qualifications--terms, vacancies--compensation, expenses--chairman, designation.
- Section 217.670 Decisions to be by majority vote--hearing panel, membership, duties--jurisdiction removal or appeal to board, when--decision to be final--closed meetings authorized--video conferencing.
- Section 217.675 Handbook of rules governing conduct of parolees furnished to whom, duties of board.
- Section 217.680 Offices, where located--space in correctional centers to be provided for hearings and interviews.
- Section 217.682 Secretary to be appointed, duties.
- Section 217.690 Board may order release or parole, when--personal hearing--fee--standards--rules--minimum term for eligibility for parole, how calculated--first degree murder, eligibility for hearing--hearing procedure--notice--education requirements, exceptions--rulemaking authority.
- Section 217.692 Eligibility for parole, offenders with life sentence, when--criteria.
- Section 217.695 Release from custody under supervision of probation and parole, registration with law enforcement officials required.
- Section 217.703 Earned compliance credits awarded, when.
- Section 217.705 Probation, parole, institutional parole, officers--appointment--duties.
- Section 217.710 Firearms, authority to carry, department's duties, training--rulemaking procedure.
- Section 217.718 Alternative to revocation proceedings, period of detention, requirements.
- Section 217.720 Arrest of person paroled or on conditional release--report--procedure--revocation of parole or release--effect of sentence--arrest of parolee from another state.
- Section 217.722 Probation officers, power to arrest, when--preliminary hearing allowed, when--notice to sentencing court.
- Section 217.725 Board may parole prisoner held on warrant.
- Section 217.730 Parole time as time of imprisonment, exception--final discharge--procedure to register to vote.
- Section 217.735 Lifetime supervision required for certain offenders--electronic monitoring--termination at age sixty-five permitted, when--rulemaking authority.
- Section 217.750 Probation services provided to circuit courts, when.
- Section 217.755 Probation services for courts, rules authorized.
- Section 217.760 Probation and parole officers furnished to circuit courts, when--presentence and preparole investigations--requirements.
- Section 217.762 Presentence investigation, required, when--victim impact statement, prepared when, contents.
- Section 217.777 Community corrections program alternative for eligible offenders, purpose--operation--rules.
- Section 217.800 Pardons by governor--conditions and restrictions--notice to central repository.
- Section 217.805 Governor may remit fine or forfeiture.
- Section 217.810 Interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers.
- Section 217.825 Citation of law.
- Section 217.827 Definitions.
- Section 217.829 Assets to be listed by prisoners on form under oath--failure to comply, effect--department to request assignments.
- Section 217.831 Director to report to attorney general on offender's assets and cost of care--attorney general's power to investigate and seek reimbursement, when.
- Section 217.833 Percent of offender's assets that may be used for reimbursement--limitation.
- Section 217.835 Jurisdiction, certain circuit courts--service--hearing--support obligations of offender to be considered--court order to reimburse, when.
- Section 217.837 Legal remedies authorized to protect assets of prisoner--execution against homestead of prisoner prohibited--state's claim to have priority.
- Section 217.839 Attorney general's powers and duties--assistance by certain officials required.
- Section 217.841 Costs of investigation, how paid--deposit of reimbursement--fund, created--state treasurer, duties.
- Section 217.900 Missouri state penitentiary redevelopment commission created--qualification of members--no elected official may serve, chairperson appointed by governor.
- Section 217.903 Terms of commission--vacancies, how filled--members to serve without compensation, expenses to be paid.
- Section 217.905 Powers and duties of commission--authority to hire employees and set salaries--state not liable for deficiencies or debts of commission--Missouri state penitentiary commission deemed a state commission.
- Section 217.907 Income and properties owned by commission exempt from state taxes.
- Section 217.910 Missouri state penitentiary redevelopment commission fund created.
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