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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-93-101. Definitions - As used in this act: (1) “Case plan” means an...
§ 16-93-102. Applicability of act to certain persons - The provisions of this act are extended to any person...
§ 16-93-103. Authority of officers to make arrests and carry firearms - (a) A probation officer appointed by a circuit court or...
§ 16-93-104. Supervision fee — Direct payment by offender — Failure to pay - (a) (1) Any offender on probation, parole, or transfer under...
§ 16-93-106. Warrantless search by any law enforcement officer of probationer or parolee - (a) (1) A person who is placed on supervised probation...
§ 16-93-107. Medicaid eligibility of parolee or probationer — Definition - (a) The Division of Correction shall screen inmates nearing release...
§ 16-93-108. Mental health and substance abuse treatment - A parolee or probationer who is enrolled in a Medicaid...
§ 16-93-109. Medicaid reimbursement for essential healthcare services - Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the Department of Human Services...
§ 16-93-110. Contracting with Medicaid provider - The Department of Correction and the Department of Community Correction...
§ 16-93-111. Parole or probation prohibitions for sex offenses - A person required to register as a sex offender under...
Subchapter 2 - Parole Board
§ 16-93-201. Creation — Members — Qualifications and training — Definition - (a) (1) There is created the Parole Board, to be...
§ 16-93-202. Seal — Records and reports - (a) The Parole Board shall adopt an official seal of...
§ 16-93-203. Cooperation from prison officials - It shall be the duty of any correctional official to:...
§ 16-93-204. Executive clemency - (a) (1) (A) All applications for pardon, commutation of sentence,...
§ 16-93-205. Parole of Arkansas inmates in out-of-state prisons - (a) The Parole Board may request the appropriate board or...
§ 16-93-206. Parole revocation review — Jurisdiction - (a) The Parole Board shall serve as the revocation review...
§ 16-93-207. Applications for pardon, commutation of sentence, and remission of fines and forfeitures - (a) (1) (A) At least thirty (30) days before granting...
§ 16-93-208. Services and equipment - The Division of Correction and the Division of Community Correction...
§ 16-93-210. Monthly performance report on parole applications and outcome — Reports concerning administrative directives filed with Legislative Council - (a) (1) The Parole Board shall submit a monthly report...
§ 16-93-211. Early release to transitional housing facilities — Definition - (a) (1) As used in this section, “transitional housing” means...
§ 16-93-212. Rulemaking authority - The Parole Board may adopt rules to implement, administer, and...
§ 16-93-213. Records to be posted on a website - (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the Parole...
Subchapter 3 - Probation and Suspended Imposition of Sentence
§ 16-93-301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, “sealing” means the procedure and...
§ 16-93-302. Probation — First time offenders — Penalties - (a) (1) A person may not avail himself or herself...
§ 16-93-303. Probation — First time offenders — Procedure - (a) (1) (A) (i) When an accused enters a plea...
§ 16-93-304. Probation — First-time offenders — Arkansas Crime Information Center - (a) All district court judges and circuit court judges shall...
§ 16-93-305. Probation — First time offenders — Sex offender may not reside with minor victim - (a) Whenever an accused who enters a plea of guilty...
§ 16-93-306. Probation generally — Supervision - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Community Correction...
§ 16-93-307. Probation generally — Revocation hearings - (a) (1) A defendant arrested for violation of suspension or...
§ 16-93-308. Probation generally — Revocation — Definition - (a) (1) At any time before the expiration of a...
§ 16-93-309. Probation generally — Revocation hearing — Sentence alternatives — Sanctions - (a) Following a revocation hearing held under § 16-93-307 and...
§ 16-93-310. Probation generally — Revocation — Community correction program - (a) When a person sentenced under a community correction program,...
§ 16-93-311. Probation generally — Restitution - If the court has suspended imposition of sentence or placed...
§ 16-93-312. Probation generally — Modification - (a) During a period of suspension or probation, upon the...
§ 16-93-313. Probation generally — Transfer of jurisdiction - (a) If a defendant during a period of probation goes...
§ 16-93-314. Probation generally — Discharge - (a) (1) The court may discharge the defendant from probation...
Subchapter 6 - Parole — Eligibility
§ 16-93-601. Felonies committed prior to April 1, 1977 - (a) Death Sentence. An individual under sentence of death is...
§ 16-93-602. Felonies committed between April 1, 1977, and April 1, 1983 — Purpose and construction of sections - (a) It is the purpose and intent of this section...
§ 16-93-603. Felonies committed between April 1, 1977, and April 1, 1983 — Classification of inmates - For the purposes of §§ 16-93-602 — 16-93-604, inmates are...
§ 16-93-604. Felonies committed between April 1, 1977, and April 1, 1983 — Parole eligibility - (a) A person who committed felonies prior to April 1,...
§ 16-93-606. Parole eligibility — Felonies committed on or after April 1, 1983, but before January 1, 1994 — Classification of inmates — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “felony” means a crime...
§ 16-93-607. Parole eligibility — Felonies committed on or after April 1, 1983, but before January 1, 1994 — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “felony” means a crime...
§ 16-93-608. Parole eligibility — Class C or Class D felonies committed on or after April 1, 1983, but before January 1, 1994 - A person who commits a Class C felony or Class...
§ 16-93-609. Effect of more than one conviction for certain felonies — Definition - (a) Any person who commits murder in the first degree,...
§ 16-93-610. Computation of sentence - (a) Time served is deemed to begin on the day...
§ 16-93-612. Parole eligibility — Date of offense - (a) A person's parole eligibility shall be determined by the...
§ 16-93-613. Parole eligibility — Class Y, Class A, or Class B felonies - (a) A person who commits a Class Y felony, Class...
§ 16-93-614. Parole eligibility — Offenses committed after January 1, 1994 — Definition - (a) As used in this section and §§ 16-93-615 —...
§ 16-93-615. Parole eligibility procedures — Offenses committed after January 1, 1994 - (a) (1) (A) An inmate under sentence for any felony,...
§ 16-93-616. Parole eligibility procedures — Offenses committed after January 1, 1994 — Computation of sentence - (a) (1) Time served for a sentence shall be deemed...
§ 16-93-617. Parole eligibility procedures — Offenses committed after January 1, 1994 — Revocation of transfer - (a) In the event an offender transferred under this section,...
§ 16-93-618. Parole eligibility — Certain Class Y felony offenses and certain methamphetamine offenses — Seventy-percent crimes - (a) (1) Notwithstanding any law allowing the award of meritorious...
§ 16-93-619. Rulemaking authority - The Parole Board may adopt rules to implement, administer, and...
§ 16-93-620. Parole eligibility procedures — Certain offenses committed on or after April 1, 2015 - (a) An inmate sentenced for one (1) of the following...
§ 16-93-621. Parole eligibility — A person who was a minor at the time of committing an offense that was committed before, on, or after March 20, 2017 - (a) (1) A minor who was convicted and sentenced to...
§ 16-93-622. Parole discharge for offenders who are minors — Reinstatement of rights - (a) The Parole Board may discharge a person from parole...
Subchapter 7 - Parole
§ 16-93-701. Authority to grant and parameters - (a) (1) The Parole Board may release on parole any...
§ 16-93-702. Procedures — Required recommendations - (a) Before the Parole Board shall grant any parole, the...
§ 16-93-703. Procedures — Place of hearings - (a) The Parole Board shall not schedule parole hearings at...
§ 16-93-704. Procedures — Notice to law enforcement personnel and committing court - (a) At the time that any person is paroled by...
§ 16-93-705. Revocation — Procedures and hearings generally - (a) (1) (A) (i) At any time during a parolee's...
§ 16-93-706. Revocation — Subpoena of witnesses and documents - (a) (1) The Chair of the Parole Board or his...
§ 16-93-708. Parole alternative — Home detention — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Approved electronic monitoring...
§ 16-93-709. Sex offender may not reside with minors - (a) Whenever an inmate in a facility of the Division...
§ 16-93-710. Parole for inmates who have served their term of imprisonment in a county jail prior to being processed into the Division of Correction - (a) (1) Subject to conditions set by the Parole Board,...
§ 16-93-711. Parole alternatives — Electronic monitoring of parolees — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “approved electronic monitoring or...
§ 16-93-712. Parole supervision - (a) (1) The Parole Board shall establish written policies and...
§ 16-93-713. Rulemaking authority - The Parole Board may adopt rules to implement, administer, and...
§ 16-93-714. Denial of parole — Detriment to the community - The Parole Board may deny parole to any otherwise eligible...
§ 16-93-715. Revocation — Technical conditions violations and serious conditions violations - (a) (1) If a parolee is subject to a parole...
Subchapter 12 - Community Correction
§ 16-93-1201. Findings and determinations - (a) The State of Arkansas hereby finds that the cost...
§ 16-93-1202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the Board...
§ 16-93-1203. Board of Corrections — Powers and duties - The Board of Corrections shall have the following duties and...
§ 16-93-1204. Authorization - (a) The Board of Corrections shall implement a correctional plan,...
§ 16-93-1205. Operation and supervision of community correction programs - (a) The Board of Corrections shall promulgate policies and rules...
§ 16-93-1207. Order of court - (a) Upon the sentencing or placing on probation of any...
§ 16-93-1208. Post commitment transfer - (a) (1) (A) Upon commitment of an eligible offender to...
§ 16-93-1209. Liability - The Division of Correction, the Board of Corrections, the Division...
§ 16-93-1210. Sentence optional - Nothing in this subchapter shall grant any offender the right...
Subchapter 14 - Notification of Offenders' Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Status
§ 16-93-1401. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Correctional institution” means any...
§ 16-93-1402. Notice to parole or probation officer - (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to provide parole...
Subchapter 16 - Transitional Housing Facilities
§ 16-93-1601. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the General Assembly to: (1)...
§ 16-93-1602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Applicant” means any individual,...
§ 16-93-1603. Powers and duties of the Board of Corrections - (a) The Board of Corrections shall promulgate rules or develop...
§ 16-93-1604. Powers and duties of the Division of Community Correction - (a) The Division of Community Correction shall implement the rules...
§ 16-93-1605. License required - (a) In order to operate a transitional housing facility for...
Subchapter 17 - Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program
§ 16-93-1701. Establishment - The Administrative Office of the Courts shall: (1) Create the...
§ 16-93-1702. Application - (a) A county or judicial district may apply for a...
§ 16-93-1703. Grant uses — Definition - (a) A grant awarded under this subchapter shall be used...
§ 16-93-1704. Determination of probation program savings - (a) Each county or judicial district receiving a grant under...