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