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2025 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 31 - Prisons and Prisoners
Chapter 1 - JAILS
Article 1 - Personnel and Facilities
Article 2 - Prisoners
Article 3 - Labor by Prisoners
Article 4 - Inmate Health Care
Article 1 - Officers and Employees
Article 2 - Prisoners
Article 3 - Labor by Prisoners
Article 4 - Products of Prisoners Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
Article 5 - Correctional Facility Construction Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
Article 6 - Transition Program
Article 7 - Mental Health Transition Program Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
Article 10 - Prisoner Participation in Medical Research and Plasmapheresis and Whole Blood Programs
Article 11 - Work Furlough Program
Article 12 - Escape Chapter 3 - EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
Article 1 - Board of Executive Clemency
Article 2 - Paroles
Article 3 - Reprieves, Commutations, and Pardons
Article 4.1 - Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders
Article 5 - Western Interstate Corrections Compact
Article 6 - Agreement on Detainers Chapter 3 - EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
Article 7 - Interstate Corrections Compact Chapter 5 - LIMITED RESTRICTIONS FOR PREGNANT PRISONERS AND PRISONERS WITH CHILDREN
Article 1 - General Provisions
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; violation; classification; definitions
- § 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
- § 31-165 - Inmate medical services; rate structure
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
- § 31-224.01 - Prisoner medical records; release to immediate family or designated individual; definition
- § 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 - Expenses of prosecution; reimbursement of counties
- § 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; fees
- § 31-231 - Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification; definition
- § 31-232 - Family considerations in prisoner placement and visitation rules
- § 31-233 - Order for removal; purposes; duration; continuous alcohol monitoring program; failure to return; classification
- § 31-234 - Agreements with cities and counties; costs; transfer; participation in programs; custody of director
- § 31-235 - Prisoner communications; definitions
- § 31-236 - Prisoner inspection or search; state of undress; prohibited acts; exception; report; definition
- § 31-237 - Dedicated discharge accounts
- § 31-238 - Incarceration costs; setoff
- § 31-239 - Utility fees
- § 31-240 - Prisoner education services budget; prohibited uses
- § 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
- § 31-256 - Prisoner training; individual certificates; requirements
Article 4 - Products of Prisoners Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
Article 5 - Correctional Facility Construction Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
Article 6 - Transition Program
- § 31-281 - Transition program; report; definition
- § 31-282 - Contracted entities; duties; services; definition
- § 31-283 - Transitional housing; contracts; state licensed facilities
- § 31-284 - Transition program fund
- § 31-285 - Transition program release; report
Article 7 - Mental Health Transition Program Chapter 2 - STATE PRISON
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
- § 31-402 - Powers of board; powers and duties of governor; powers and duties of executive director
- § 31-403 - Commutation; restrictions on consideration
- § 31-404 - Wilful failure to pay; revocation of parole or community supervision
Article 2 - Paroles
- § 31-411 - Parole or discharge; conditions of parole; release under supervision of state department of corrections; notice of hearing; exceptions; drug testing costs
- § 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; community corrections enhancement fund; drug testing costs
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 4.1 - 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; drug testing costs
- § 31-467.07 - Interstate compact for the supervision of adult offenders; eight-year review
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
Article 6 - Agreement on Detainers Chapter 3 - EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
Article 7 - Interstate Corrections Compact Chapter 5 - LIMITED RESTRICTIONS FOR PREGNANT PRISONERS AND PRISONERS WITH CHILDREN
Article 1 - General Provisions
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