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2005 West Virginia Code - CHAPTER 25. — DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS
- CHAPTER 25. — DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS.
- ARTICLE 1. — ORGANIZATION, INSTITUTIONS AND CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT.
- §25-1-1. — Office of commissioner of public institutions abolished; department and commissioner of corrections established; qualifications, oath and bond.
- §25-1-1a. — Purpose and legislative intent.
- §25-1-2. — Continuation of the division of corrections.
- §25-1-3. — Institutions managed by commissioner of corrections; certain institutions transferred to department of health and human resources and state board of health; establishment of work and study release units; civil service coverage.
- §25-1-3a. — Trustee accounts and funds, earnings and personal property of inmates.
- §25-1-3b. — Inmate benefit funds.
- §25-1-3c. — Financial responsibility program for inmates.
- §25-1-4. — Repealed.
- §25-1-5. — Rules and regulations.
- §25-1-6. — Title to property of state institutions; custody of deeds and other muniments of title; authority of
- §25-1-7. — Pruntytown Correctional Center established as a minimum security facility; limitations on type of residents therein.
- §25-1-8. — Charges assessed against inmates for services provided by state.
- §25-1-9. — Repealed.
- §25-1-10. — Insurance of state buildings and property.
- §25-1-10a. — Repealed.
- §25-1-11. — Officers and employees of corrections institutions.
- §25-1-11a. — Duties of wardens and administrators; bond; residence.
- §25-1-11b. — Appointment of deputy warden; duties; bond.
- §25-1-11c. — Hiring of other assistants and employees; duties of correctional employees; right to carry weapons; powers of correctional peace officers.
- §25-1-11d. — Compensation of employees approved by commissioner; traveling and other expenses; payment of salaries.
- §25-1-11e. — Unauthorized use of uniform, badge, identification card or other insignia; impersonation of member; and penalty.
- §25-1-12. — Repealed.
- §25-1-13. — Furlough programs.
- §25-1-14. — Electronic monitoring of offenders; special account.
- §25-1-15. — Diagnostic and classification divisions.
- §25-1-16. — Transfer of inmates of state institutions or facilities.
- §25-1-16a. — Governor's authority to authorize commissioner of corrections to consent to transfer of inmates under a federal treaty.
- §25-1-17. — Monitoring of inmate telephone calls; procedures and restrictions; calls to or from attorneys excepted.
- §25-1-18. — Monitoring inmate mail; procedures and restrictions;
- §25-1-19. — Reports by commissioner of public institutions and chief officers of institutions to auditor.
- §25-1-20. — Reports to governor.
- §25-1-21. — Employment of displaced correctional employees at other facilities.
- §25-1-22. — Task Force to Study the Feasibility of Establishing a Correctional Facility for the Incarceration and Treatment of Sex Offenders; members; duties.
- §25-1-23. — Repealed.
- §25-1-24. — Repealed.
- §25-1-25. — Repealed.
- §25-1-26. — Repealed.
- §25-1-27. — Repealed.
- §25-1-28. — Repealed.
- §25-1-29. — Repealed.
- §25-1-30. — Repealed.
- §25-1-31. — Repealed.
- §25-1-32. — Repealed.
- §25-1-33. — Repealed.
- §25-1-34. — Repealed.
- ARTICLE 1A. — WEST VIRGINIA PRISONER LITIGATION REFORM ACT.
- §25-1A-1. — Definitions.
- §25-1A-2. — Mandatory exhaustion of administrative remedies.
- §25-1A-3. — Payment of filing fees and court costs.
- §25-1A-4. — Judicial review of initial pleading; dismissal.
- §25-1A-5. — Hearings.
- §25-1A-6. — Loss of good-time credit.
- §25-1A-7. — Court-ordered payments.
- §25-1A-8. — Attorney fees.
- ARTICLE 2. — PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY; STATE PUBLICATIONS.
- §§25-2-1 to 25-2-19. — Repealed.
- ARTICLE 3. — CLAIMS OF CITIZENS AGAINST UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR ILLEGAL TAX PAYMENTS.
- §§25-3-1 to 25-3-6. — Repealed.
- ARTICLE 4. — CENTERS FOR HOUSING YOUNG ADULT OFFENDERS.
- §25-4-1. — Purpose of article.
- §25-4-2. — Establishment of centers.
- §25-4-3. — Authority of commissioner of corrections.
- §25-4-4. — Warden.
- §25-4-5. — Repealed.
- §25-4-6. — Assignment of offenders to center; period of center confinement; return to court; sentence or probation; revocation of probation.
- §25-4-7. — Physical, educational and psychological examinations; transfer and placement.
- §25-4-8. — Labor, study or activities may be required.
- §25-4-9. — Wages of offenders.
- §25-4-10. — Authority to arrest inmates.
- §25-4-11. — Escape; aiding escape.
- §25-4-12. — Independent or cooperative establishment of centers.
- ARTICLE 5. — PRIVATE PRISONS.
- §25-5-1. — Short title.
- §25-5-2. — Legislative findings and purpose.
- §25-5-3. — Definitions.
- §25-5-4. — Authority of the commissioner of the division of corrections; authority of secretary of department of public safety.
- §25-5-5. — Prohibition of constructing or operating a correctional facility; exceptions.
- §25-5-6. — Authority of the state and its political subdivisions to contract for correctional services.
- §25-5-7. — Granting private contractor ability to contract with foreign contracting agencies.
- §25-5-8. — Reporting requirements.
- §25-5-9. — Terms of contract.
- §25-5-10. — Site selection.
- §25-5-11. — Standards of operation; violations.
- §25-5-12. — Access by contracting agency, commissioner; reimbursement of expenses; report by commissioner.
- §25-5-13. — Sovereign immunity.
- §25-5-14. — Powers and duties not delegable to contractor.
- §25-5-15. — Bonding requirements.
- §25-5-16. — Insurance.
- §25-5-17. — Liability; indemnification.
- §25-5-18. — Firearms; capture of escapees; nonresident private correctional officers.
- §25-5-19. — Employee training requirements; preference.
- §25-5-20. — Reimbursement to state and its subdivisions.
- ARTICLE 6. — BOOT CAMP.
- §25-6-1. — Purpose of article.
- §25-6-2. — Authorization to establish boot camp program.
- §25-6-3. — Definitions.
- §25-6-4. — Eligibility.
- §25-6-5. — Internal policy development.
- 25-6-6. — Reporting requirements; sunset provisions; performance audit.
- §25-6-7. — Construction and applicability of other acts.
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