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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 47 - PRISONS AND PRISONERS; PROBATION AND PAROLE
Chapter 5 - CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
OPERATION, MANAGEMENT AND PERSONNEL
- § 47-5-1 - Policy of state in operation and management of correctional system; independent internal examinations
- § 47-5-2 - Corrections Investigative Taskforce created
- § 47-5-3 - Facilities of the correctional system; their purposes and locations
- § 47-5-4 - Definitions
- § 47-5-5 - Limited centralization of facilities
- § 47-5-6 - Oversight Task Force established; composition; powers and duties
- § 47-5-7 - Seal
- § 47-5-8 - Department of Corrections; creation; divisions; succession to interests of State Penitentiary and State Probation and Parole Board
- § 47-5-9 - Repealed
- § 47-5-10 - Department of Corrections; general powers and duties
- § 47-5-11 - Department to collect certain prison, probation and post-release supervision data; report to Oversight Task Force
- § 47-5-12 - Repealed
- § 47-5-13 - Repealed
- § 47-5-14 - Repealed
- § 47-5-15 - Repealed
- § 47-5-16 - Repealed
- § 47-5-17 - Repealed
- §§ 47-5-18 and 47-5-19 - Repealed
- § 47-5-20 - Powers and duties of commissioner
- § 47-5-21 - Repealed
- § 47-5-23 - Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections
- § 47-5-24 - Commissioner of Corrections; appointment; compensation; qualifications; bond
- § 47-5-25 - Repealed
- § 47-5-26 - Commissioner of Corrections; employment of deputy commissioners, administrative assistant for parole matters, and prison superintendents
- § 47-5-27 - Repealed
- § 47-5-28 - Additional powers and duties of commissioner
- § 47-5-29 - Repealed
- § 47-5-30 - Commissioner of Corrections; development of five-year strategic plan for operation of state correctional system
- § 47-5-31 - Reports by commissioner; inventory
- § 47-5-33 - Commissioner authorized to administer oaths, and to summon and examine witnesses
- § 47-5-35 - Auditor for correctional system
- § 47-5-37 - Fiscal comptroller, bookkeepers, and assistants; maintenance of modern accounting system; commissioner to sign warrants
- § 47-5-39 - Fiscal impact notes
- § 47-5-41 - Employees' oath of office
- § 47-5-43 - Workers' compensation coverage
- § 47-5-45 - Repealed
- § 47-5-47 - Nepotism prohibited; employees not to be interested in contracts
- § 47-5-49 - Employees not to engage in other business
- § 47-5-51 - Repealed
- § 47-5-53 - Repealed
- § 47-5-54 - Status of employees as peace officers; promulgation and enforcement of speed limits upon grounds of correctional facilities
- § 47-5-55 - Exemption from jury service
- § 47-5-56 - Lease of property; operating funds; disposal of income; transfer of property
- § 47-5-57 - Repealed
- § 47-5-58 - Sales by commissary to persons or agencies
- § 47-5-59 - Repealed
- § 47-5-60 - Repealed
- § 47-5-61 - Repealed
- § 47-5-62 - Repealed
- § 47-5-63 - Repealed
- § 47-5-64 - Agricultural leases of prison lands to private entities; reservation of additional land for agricultural or nonagricultural projects of Department of Corrections; lease of prison land for power generation or other commercial or industrial projects
- § 47-5-65 - Repealed
- § 47-5-66 - Agricultural leases of prison lands to private entities; procedures; methods of payment of rents; disposal of income; fee per acre in lieu of ad valorem taxes
- § 47-5-67 - Repealed
- § 47-5-69 - Repealed
- § 47-5-70 - "Board" and "lessee" defined
- § 47-5-71 - Construction or pavement of roads
- § 47-5-72 - Establishment of regional recycling centers at regional correctional facilities; participation of inmates in recycling center work program
- § 47-5-73 - Repealed
- § 47-5-75 - Suits by or against board of corrections; tort liability insurance
- § 47-5-76 - Payment of court costs for inmate's civil action against Department employee pertaining to condition of confinement
- § 47-5-77 - Remission to State Treasurer of funds belonging to correctional system; payment of bills and accounts of correctional system
- § 47-5-78 - Creation of the "Lambert State Forest Revolving Fund."
- § 47-5-79 - How purchases to be made
- § 47-5-81 - , 47-5-83. Repealed
- § 47-5-85 - Chapel for religious worship; chaplain
- § 47-5-87 - No gasoline or motor oil to be sold
- § 47-5-89 - No solicitation nor contribution for political purposes
- § 47-5-91 - Transportation of children of employees to school; payment of tuition
- § 47-5-93 - Governor to make inspections
- § 47-5-94 - Annual structural and environmental inspections; report of findings
- § 47-5-95 - Officials to be admitted to places where offenders kept and worked; visitors to correctional system facilities
- § 47-5-97 - Repealed
- § 47-5-99 - Creation of classification hearing officers and disciplinary hearing officers
- § 47-5-101 - Meetings and minutes of classification and disciplinary hearing officers
- § 47-5-103 - Powers and duties of classification hearing officer and classification board as to classification of offenders
- § 47-5-104 - Demotion of offender or forfeiture of earned time
- § 47-5-105 - Entry of bids, bills, and invoices in minutes before award or payment; copies to be sent
- § 47-5-107 - Cancellation of contracts
- § 47-5-108 - Self-sustaining food facilities established at certain penitentiary and correctional facilities; Employee Cafeteria Funds
- § 47-5-109 - Operation of inmate canteen facilities; Canteen Fund
- § 47-5-1091 - Contract for administration of inmate canteen services
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