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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 47 - PRISONS AND PRISONERS; PROBATION AND PAROLE
Chapter 5 - CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
OFFENDERS
- § 47-5-110 - Commitments to be to department and not to particular institutions or facilities; transfers of offenders; community prerelease program; conditions; immunity for commissioner of corrections; evidence-based programs for benefit of inmates
- § 47-5-1101 - Offenders to pay costs of requested transfers between facilities
- § 47-5-1102 - Persons sentenced to custody of department after January 1, 2017, can no longer be sentenced to regimented inmate discipline program
- § 47-5-111 - Transportation of offenders to correctional system facilities; processing of offenders at receiving stations
- § 47-5-112 - Repealed
- § 47-5-113 - Offenders of the United States courts
- § 47-5-115 - Offenders whose capital sentences are commuted
- § 47-5-116 - Installation of "Biddle guard" on vehicle transporting prisoner
- § 47-5-117 - Repealed
- § 47-5-119 - Initial search of offender; disposition of money found thereon; misappropriation of offender's money
- § 47-5-120 - Transfer of offender for observation, diagnosis and treatment; board of examiners established to examine condition of certain offenders
- § 47-5-121 - Separation of sexes
- § 47-5-122 - Agricultural production as part of disciplinary or other programs; contracts for federal subsidies
- § 47-5-123 - Repealed
- § 47-5-124 - Uniform designations for offenders; restrictions on possession of radios, televisions and similar electronic devices; restrictions on weight lifting programs
- § 47-5-125 - Repealed
- § 47-5-126 - Working of inmates
- § 47-5-127 - Repealed
- § 47-5-128 - Repealed
- § 47-5-129 - Offenders to work certain roads; Sunflower County
- § 47-5-131 - Offenders to work certain roads; Quitman County
- § 47-5-132 - Housing of prisoners; "hot racking," tents and "double bunking."
- § 47-5-133 - Drainage of correctional system property; restriction on working of offenders off correctional system property
- § 47-5-134 - Offenders to work for Habitat for Humanity or the Fuller Center for Housing, Inc.
- §§ 47-5-135 and 47-5-136 - Repealed
- § 47-5-137 - Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception
- § 47-5-138 - Earned time allowances; earned-release supervision; promulgations of rules and regulations; forfeiture generally; release of offender; phase-out of earned time release
- § 47-5-1381 - Trusties authorized to accumulate additional earned time; certain offenders in trusty status ineligible for time allowance
- § 47-5-139 - Certain inmates ineligible for earned time allowance; commutation to be based on total term of sentences; forfeiture of earned time in event of escape
- § 47-5-140 - Earned time handbook
- § 47-5-141 - Repealed
- § 47-5-142 - Meritorious earned time
- §§ 47-5-143 and 47-5-145 - Repealed
- § 47-5-147 - Governor may authorize payment of reward for apprehension of escaped offender
- § 47-5-149 - United States offenders subject to the laws of the state
- § 47-5-151 - Death of prisoner; investigations, inquests, and autopsies; fees; penalties
- § 47-5-153 - Repealed
- § 47-5-155 - Discharged offenders revolving fund
- § 47-5-157 - Written discharge or release, clothing, Mississippi driver's license or state identification card, money and bus ticket furnished to discharged or released offender
- § 47-5-158 - Inmate Welfare Fund
- §§ 47-5-159 through 47-5-171 - Repealed
- § 47-5-173 - Granting of leave for personal reasons
- § 47-5-175 - Agreements to transfer state offenders to federal facilities
- § 47-5-177 - Notice requirements prior to release of offenders
- § 47-5-179 - Department of Corrections to deduct nonemergency medical expenses from inmate accounts
- § 47-5-180 - Appointment of commissioner to make health-care decisions for offender who lacks capacity and does not have relative available; procedure; applicability of Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act
- § 47-5-181 - Conversion of community work centers to pre-release centers
- § 47-5-183 - Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database
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