31-229.02. Functionally literate inmates; release eligibility
A. Except as provided in section 41-1604.07, subsection F, if an inmate fails to achieve functional literacy at an eighth grade literacy level before the inmate becomes eligible for release pursuant to section 41-1604.07, the inmate is not eligible to begin the inmate's term of community supervision until either the inmate achieves an eighth grade functional literacy level as measured by standardized assessment testing or the inmate serves the full term of imprisonment imposed by the court, whichever first occurs.
B. This section does not apply to inmates who are any of the following:
1. Unable to meet the functional literacy standard required by subsection A of this section, due to a medical, developmental or learning disability as described in section 31-229, subsection C.
2. Classified as level five offenders.
3. Foreign nationals.
4. Inmates who have less than six months incarceration to serve on commitment to the department.
5. Released pursuant to section 41-1604.07, subsection B, paragraph 1.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 31 - Prisons and Prisoners
§ 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
§ 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
§ 31-222 - Research and evaluation programs
§ 31-223 - Use of force by correctional officers
§ 31-224 - Duty to deliver medical records
§ 31-225 - Attendance of prisoner in court
§ 31-226.01 - Emergency transfer procedures
§ 31-227 - Expenses of prosecution; reimbursement of counties
§ 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
§ 31-235 - Prisoner correspondence; definitions
§ 31-237 - Dedicated discharge accounts
§ 31-238 - Incarceration costs; setoff
§ 31-240 - Prisoner education services budget; prohibited uses
§ 31-241 - Inmate complaints to boards; procedure
§ 31-242 - Internet access; violation; classification; definitions
§ 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
§ 31-250 - Definition of work crew
§ 31-251 - Hard labor required of prisoners; labor classification; definition
§ 31-252 - Use of prisoners in public works; cooperative prisoner labor system; definitions
§ 31-253 - Use of prisoners in prison construction; definition
§ 31-255 - Alcohol abuse treatment fund
§ 31-256 - Prisoner training; individual certificates; requirements
§ 31-161 - Inmate health care; costs
§ 31-162 - Inmate health services fund; audit
§ 31-164 - Inmate health insurance pools
§ 31-165 - Inmate medical services; rate structure
§ 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
§ 31-261 - Sale or exchange of products of individual prisoners
§ 31-271 - Adult correctional facility; multiple confinement
§ 31-281 - Transition program; report; definition
§ 31-282 - Contracted entities; duties; services; definition
§ 31-284 - Transition program fund
§ 31-285 - Transition program release; report
§ 31-321 - Prisoner participation in approved programs
§ 31-322 - Approval of programs
§ 31-334 - Earnings of prisoner
§ 31-342 - Escape; liability for costs incurred in apprehension
§ 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
§ 31-412 - Criteria for release on parole; release; custody of parolee; definition
§ 31-414 - Absolute discharge of parolee; effect; notice to victim
§ 31-417 - Notification to board of parole violator; hearing; reimprisonment
§ 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
§ 31-446 - Report to legislature
§ 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
§ 31-467.03 - 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
§ 31-471 - Western interstate corrections compact
§ 31-473 - Enforcement of compact; hearings in compliance with compact
§ 31-475 - Right of transferred prisoner on release from prison outside this state
§ 31-481 - Agreement; authorization; contents
§ 31-482 - Matters pertaining to agreement