31-231. Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification; definition
A. A person who is not authorized by law and who without legal or official permission communicates with a prisoner who is within the custody and control of the department is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
B. For the purposes of this section, all prisoners who are detained within a correctional facility or who are supervised in any program outside of a correctional facility are within the custody and control of the department. This section does not apply to prisoners who are on parole, community supervision, work release or home arrest or who are under any other conditional release that does not involve direct and continuous supervision by the department.
C. For the purposes of this section, " communication" means:
1. Any verbal or nonverbal communication that poses a direct threat to the safe and secure operation of the department's institutions, programs or inmate labor work crews.
2. Any written communication that includes taking any unauthorized letter, writing, literature or reading material to or from a prisoner who is within the custody and control of the department.
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