Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs

Chapter 25 - Public Hearing Requirements Prior to Location of Community-Based Residential Facilities

§ 12-25-101. Location or construction of residential facilities for sexual or violent offenders — Public hearings - (a) (1) No state agency, board, commission, or governing body...

Chapter 26 - Criminal Detention Facilities Standards

§ 12-26-101. Policy — Purpose of chapter - (a) It is declared to be the policy of the...

§ 12-26-102. Definition - As used in this chapter, “criminal detention facility” means any...

§ 12-26-103. Office of Criminal Detention Facilities Review Coordinator — Creation — Duties - (a) There is established the Office of Criminal Detention Facilities...

§ 12-26-105. Criminal detention facility review committee districts and committees created — Members - (a) There are created eight (8) criminal detention facility review...

§ 12-26-106. Powers and duties of a criminal detention facility review committee - A criminal detention facility review committee shall: (1) Provide consultation...

§ 12-26-107. Inspection of facility — Report - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each criminal...

§ 12-26-108. Failure to meet minimum standards — Procedure - (a) (1) If an inspection under this chapter discloses that...

Chapter 27 - Division of Correction — Division of Community Correction

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 12-27-101. Purposes and construction of the Division of Correction - (a) (1) The purpose of this act is to establish...

§ 12-27-102. Enforcement of penalties — Report of crimes - (a) All laws of this state prescribing penalties for violations...

§ 12-27-103. Division of Correction — Creation — Powers and duties - (a) There is established, under the supervision, control, and direction...

§ 12-27-104. Board of Corrections — Members — Records — Staff - (a) The Board of Corrections shall be composed of seven...

§ 12-27-105. Board's powers and duties - (a) The purpose of the Board of Corrections is to...

§ 12-27-106. Publication of rules — Report concerning administrative directives and administrative memoranda filed with Legislative Council - (a) The Board of Corrections shall make available in conspicuous...

§ 12-27-107. Director of the Division of Correction - (a) The Director of the Division of Correction, who shall...

§ 12-27-108. Authentication of records - (a) For authentication of the records, process, and proceedings of...

§ 12-27-109. Oaths of director and other authorized persons - The Director of the Division of Correction and each person...

§ 12-27-110. Administrative headquarters - The Board of Corrections shall locate the administrative headquarters of...

§ 12-27-111. Improvements - (a) The Board of Corrections and the Director of the...

§ 12-27-112. Sale of lands and facilities of the Department of Correction - (a) None of the lands under the control and jurisdiction...

§ 12-27-113. Commitments to the Division of Correction — Records - (a) (1) All commitments to the Division of Correction shall...

§ 12-27-114. Inmates in county jails — Reimbursement of county — Medical care - (a) (1) (A) (i) In the event the Department of...

§ 12-27-115. Claims of counties for expenses — Verification - (a) When any county in which an institution of the...

§ 12-27-116. Use of fuel and provisions — Issuance or sale of items produced - (a) Except as authorized by the Board of Corrections, no...

§ 12-27-117. Employees' uniforms - The Department of Correction is authorized to purchase identifying occupational...

§ 12-27-118. Employees' children — Transportation to school - (a) (1) In order to provide adequate educational opportunities for...

§ 12-27-120. Retirement of employees - (a) During their employment by the Department of Correction, all...

§ 12-27-121. Transfer of inmates to foreign countries - The Governor is empowered to authorize the Department of Correction...

§ 12-27-122. Debt service accounts - (a) (1) The Division of Correction may establish accounts in...

§ 12-27-123. Supervision and transfer of employees - (a) All staff, employees, and other personnel of the Department...

§ 12-27-124. Purposes and construction of the Division of Community Correction - (a) (1) The purpose of this act is to establish...

§ 12-27-125. Division of Community Correction — Creation — Powers and duties - (a) There is established, under the supervision, control, and direction...

§ 12-27-126. Director of the Division of Community Correction - (a) The Director of the Division of Community Correction shall...

§ 12-27-127. Transfer to the Division of Community Correction — Transfer of an inmate between divisions - (a) A commitment shall be treated as a commitment to...

§ 12-27-128. Division of Correction Nontax Revenue Receipts Fund - (a) There is created in accordance with §§ 19-4-801 —...

§ 12-27-129. Report on rehabilitation - (a) The Division of Correction may report to the House...

§ 12-27-130. Reimbursement of county - Notwithstanding any other provision of law or Division of Correction's...

§ 12-27-131. Receipts for reimbursement - (a) Receipts from cities or counties reimbursed to the Division...

§ 12-27-132. Award of pistol upon retirement or death - When a Division of Community Correction parole or probation officer...

§ 12-27-133. Community Correction Revolving Fund - There is created and established on the books of the...

§ 12-27-134. Probation services - (a) The Division of Community Correction shall administer, in cooperation...

§ 12-27-135. Facility assignment - (a) (1) In accordance with the rules and procedures promulgated...

§ 12-27-136. Services and equipment - The Division of Correction and the Division of Community Correction...

§ 12-27-137. Confidentiality of emergency preparedness documents - (a) The following sections of the Division of Correction's official...

§ 12-27-139. Notice to police when furloughed inmate will be in jurisdiction - (a) The Board of Corrections may promulgate rules to allow...

§ 12-27-140. Division of Community Correction annual report - (a) (1) On July 31 of each year, the Division...

§ 12-27-142. Medical services contract - (a) The Division of Correction and the Division of Community...

§ 12-27-143. Award of service weapon upon retirement or death - When a Division of Correction employee retires from service with...

§ 12-27-144. Division of Community Correction — Receipt of grant money for certain purposes - (a) The Division of Community Correction may receive money from...

§ 12-27-145. Records to be posted on a public website — Definition - (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the Division...

§ 12-27-146. Tracking an inmate or person being supervised who is serving a suspended sentence - (a) The Division of Community Correction shall track a person...

§ 12-27-147. Rulemaking and administrative directive reporting requirement - (a) A rule implemented by the Board of Corrections, Division...

§ 12-27-148. Confidentiality of emergency preparedness document of the Division of Community Correction - (a) The following sections of the Division of Community Correction's...

§ 12-27-149. Division of Community Correction — Sufficient staffing guidelines - For the purposes of maintaining a sufficiently trained and specialized...

Subchapter 2 - Pay-for-Success Act

§ 12-27-201. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Pay-for-Success Act”.

§ 12-27-202. Legislative findings and intent - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Incarceration and reincarceration...

§ 12-27-203. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Incarcerated” means the condition...

§ 12-27-204. Pay-for-success programs - (a) The Division of Community Correction may enter into an...

Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 12-28-101. Facilities - (a) (1) The Division of Correction, with the approval of...

§ 12-28-102. Death chamber - (a) The Department of Correction shall provide a death chamber...

§ 12-28-103. Cost impact statements - (a) Each of the following bills introduced in the General...

§ 12-28-104. Paroling authority - (a) The Parole Board shall be the paroling authority for...

§ 12-28-105. Continuity of care for persons released - (a) (1) Any person incarcerated by the Division of Correction...

§ 12-28-106. Electric fencing - (a) (1) The Division of Correction may design and install...

§ 12-28-107. Training for inmates - (a) As provided for in § 12-28-101, the Division of...

Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act

§ 12-28-601. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Prison Overcrowding Emergency...

§ 12-28-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the Board...

§ 12-28-603. Declaration of emergency - (a) (1) Whenever the population of the prison system exceeds...

§ 12-28-604. List of inmates — Early parole or discharge - (a) (1) When the Board of Corrections declares a prison...

§ 12-28-605. Successive states of emergency - (a) The Board of Corrections may declare succeeding prison overcrowding...

§ 12-28-606. Declaration of end of emergency - At any time during a declared prison overcrowding state of...

Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Boot Camp Act

§ 12-28-701. Title - This subchapter shall be referred to and may be cited...

§ 12-28-702. Legislative findings and determinations - The General Assembly finds that: (1) The cost of incarcerating...

§ 12-28-703. Authorization - (a) The Board of Corrections shall develop and implement a...

§ 12-28-704. Eligibility - Appropriate inmates shall be chosen for the boot camp program...

§ 12-28-705. Construction — Applicability of other acts - This subchapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish the intent...

Chapter 29 - Inmates of State Facilities

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 12-29-101. Custody classifications and treatment programs - (a) (1) The Director of the Division of Correction shall...

§ 12-29-102. Inmates denied participation in furlough programs - A person who is convicted of any of the following...

§ 12-29-103. Discipline - (a) The Director of the Division of Correction or the...

§ 12-29-104. Contacts with persons outside the institution - Under rules prescribed by the Division of Correction, heads of...

§ 12-29-105. Clergy - (a) All clergy of every denomination shall be admitted free...

§ 12-29-106. Mail to or from inmates - (a) (1) A person without the consent of the Director...

§ 12-29-107. Inmate welfare funds - Amounts held as inmate welfare funds or received as inmate...

§ 12-29-108. Cash in possession of inmate — Confiscation - (a) The Board of Corrections is authorized to promulgate rules...

§ 12-29-109. Board action upon violations of § 5-54-119 - If the Board of Corrections has good reason for believing...

§ 12-29-110. Selling or trading position, working condition, or promotion — Penalty - (a) It is unlawful for any inmate or employee of...

§ 12-29-111. Transport of inmate required for legal proceeding - (a) If an inmate in the care and custody of...

§ 12-29-112. Discharge or release - (a) At least one hundred twenty (120) days before an...

§ 12-29-113. Notice of escape to law enforcement officers — Penalty - (a) (1) Whenever any inmate of the Department of Correction...

§ 12-29-114. Notice of escape to victim or victim's next of kin - (a) (1) Whenever an inmate serving a sentence for the...

§ 12-29-115. Combination to escape — Authority of guards - (a) The officers and guards of the Division of Correction...

§ 12-29-116. Authority of director in case of alarm or danger - The Director of the Department of Correction shall have the...

§ 12-29-117. Educational, training, and rehabilitative programs - An inmate who was convicted and sentenced as an adult...

§ 12-29-118. Punitive isolation or solitary confinement of inmates who are minors — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Minor” means a...

Subchapter 2 - Good Time Allowance

§ 12-29-201. Meritorious good time - (a) An inmate may be entitled to meritorious good time...

§ 12-29-202. Classification committee — Classifications - (a) (1) There is established a classification committee to be...

§ 12-29-203. Forfeiture — Restoration - (a) All meritorious good time shall be forfeited by an...

§ 12-29-204. Statutory good time — Maximum reduction - No inmate sentenced to the Division of Correction shall ever...

§ 12-29-205. Good time earned pending transfer to Division of Correction or Division of Community Correction - (a) (1) Any person who is sentenced by a circuit...

Subchapter 3 - Education

§ 12-29-301. School system created - (a) Properties owned by the State of Arkansas and occupied...

§ 12-29-302. Rules - The Board of Corrections and the State Board of Education...

§ 12-29-303. Privileges of students — Limitations - A school established under this subchapter and a person incarcerated...

§ 12-29-304. Costs and funding - (a) The cost of implementing and operating the Corrections School...

§ 12-29-305. Gifts and bequests - The Board of Corrections and the State Board of Education...

§ 12-29-306. Riverside Vocational and Technical School — Legislative intent - (a) This section and §§ 12-29-307 — 12-29-310 are intended...

§ 12-29-307. Riverside Vocational and Technical School — Establishment - There is established a state vocational and technical school, to...

§ 12-29-308. Riverside Vocational and Technical School — Purpose - The Riverside Vocational and Technical School is created for the...

§ 12-29-309. Riverside Vocational and Technical School — Facilities — Operations — Rules - (a) (1) The Division of Correction and the Division of...

§ 12-29-310. Riverside Vocational and Technical School — Cost of implementation and operation - (a) The cost of implementing and operating the Riverside Vocational...

§ 12-29-311. Dyslexia screening — Science of reading — Intervention services - The Superintendent of the Arkansas Correctional School shall: (1) Promulgate...

Subchapter 4 - Medical Care

§ 12-29-401. Medical care - (a) The Department of Correction shall establish and shall prescribe...

§ 12-29-402. Physical examination — Assignment to labor - (a) All prisoners committed to the Division of Correction shall...

§ 12-29-403. Inmates with a disability — Duty of physician - (a) (1) Each new inmate committed to the Division of...

§ 12-29-404. Medical parole for a terminal illness or permanent incapacitation — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Permanently incapacitated” means,...

§ 12-29-405. Inmates with mental illness - (a) The Division of Correction is authorized to develop in-house...

§ 12-29-406. Treatment for deviant sexual behavior - (a) The purpose of this section is to enable the...

§ 12-29-407. Medicaid suspension - (a) When an individual who is enrolled in a Medicaid...

Subchapter 5 - State Prison Inmate Care and Custody Reimbursement Act

§ 12-29-501. Title - This subchapter may be known and cited as the “State...

§ 12-29-502. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the Board...

§ 12-29-503. Monthly reports on prisoners — Investigation - (a) (1) The Director of the Department of Correction or...

§ 12-29-504. Reimbursement proceedings — Appointment of guardian - (a) (1) When a person is admitted to an institution...

§ 12-29-505. Duty to furnish information - It shall be the duty of the sentencing judge, the...

§ 12-29-506. Duties of Attorney General — Assistance - (a) The Attorney General shall enforce this subchapter. (b) However,...

§ 12-29-507. Deposit of recovered moneys — Payment of costs - (a) (1) All moneys recovered for the cost of care...

Subchapter 6 - Satisfaction of Restitution Orders Through Damage Awards

§ 12-29-601. Compensatory damages paid to satisfy restitution orders - (a) Any compensatory damages after payment of attorney's fees and...

§ 12-29-602. Immunity not affected - The provisions of this subchapter are not intended to in...

Chapter 30 - State Inmate Industries and Labor

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 12-30-101. Bartering products of institutions - (a) (1) In the passage of this section, the General...

§ 12-30-102. Buying and selling products of institutions - (a) The Board of Corrections is authorized to enter into...

§ 12-30-103. Workcraft program - (a) The Division of Correction and the Division of Community...

§ 12-30-104. Sale of workcraft items - (a) (1) The sale of items produced in the Division...

§ 12-30-105. Marketing contracts - (a) (1) The Division of Correction may enter into marketing...

Subchapter 2 - Prison-Made Goods Act of 1967

§ 12-30-201. Title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Prison-Made Goods Act...

§ 12-30-202. Legislative intent - Whereas, the means now provided for the employment of prison...

§ 12-30-203. Establishment of prison industries - The Board of Corrections may purchase, in the manner provided...

§ 12-30-204. Purchase of goods by state and local agencies - (a) (1) All offices, departments, divisions, institutions, and agencies of...

§ 12-30-205. Purchase of goods by nonprofit organizations and other individuals - (a) A nonprofit organization may purchase goods produced by the...

§ 12-30-206. Prices - (a) The Board of Corrections shall fix and determine the...

§ 12-30-207. Catalogues - (a) The Board of Corrections shall cause to be prepared,...

§ 12-30-209. Order of distribution - The articles or products manufactured or produced by prison labor...

§ 12-30-210. Annual report - (a) The Division of Correction's Industry Division shall make an...

§ 12-30-211. Rules - The Board of Corrections shall have power and authority to...

§ 12-30-212. Auditor of State bound by voucher or warrant - No voucher, certificate, or warrant issued on the Auditor of...

§ 12-30-213. Intentional violations - If an intentional violation of this subchapter by any office,...

§ 12-30-214. Appropriations — Contracts - (a) Incident to the employment of prisoners as provided in...

§ 12-30-215. Purchase for construction or operation of prison - Any contractor or subcontractor who has entered into a contract...

Subchapter 3 - Farms

§ 12-30-301. Farming and livestock activities - (a) The Division of Correction shall make maximum utilization of...

§ 12-30-303. Cooperation of Cooperative Extension Service - It shall be the duty of the University of Arkansas...

§ 12-30-304. Products — Purchase by state institutions - (a) It shall be the duty of the various state...

§ 12-30-305. Sales by director - (a) The Director of the Division of Correction, by and...

§ 12-30-306. Purchases, expenditures, and sales — Compliance with laws - (a) All purchases for or in behalf of the Division...

§ 12-30-307. Payment for food used by division - (a) The Division of Correction may make payment from the...

§ 12-30-308. Lease or rental of land - (a) The Board of Corrections, in its discretion and with...

Subchapter 4 - Work-Study Release

§ 12-30-401. Work and rehabilitative programs — Work-release programs - (a) All inmates committed to the Division of Correction for...

§ 12-30-402. Establishment of new work-release centers - (a) The Community Correction Revolving Fund may borrow from the...

§ 12-30-403. Rules generally - The Board of Corrections and the Director of the Division...

§ 12-30-404. Inmates excepted from program - (a) No person shall be allowed to participate in any...

§ 12-30-405. Contracts for inmate labor - The Division of Correction may make contractual arrangements for use...

§ 12-30-406. Allocation of earnings — Inmate's funds - (a) Under any work-release program, earnings by the inmate shall...

§ 12-30-407. Housing of participants - (a) (1) (A) The Board of Corrections may promulgate rules...

Subchapter 5 - Privatized Prison-Made Goods

§ 12-30-501. Private sector prison industry enhancement programs - (a) The Board of Corrections may contract with any private...

§ 12-30-502. Transportation and sale of goods - (a) Goods produced in whole or in part by inmates...

§ 12-30-503. Purpose of wages set aside — Rules of director - (a) An inmate of the Department of Correction or Department...

Chapter 32 - Treatment of Female Inmates or Detainees

§ 12-32-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Correctional or detention facility”...

§ 12-32-102. Restraint of pregnant inmate or detainee - (a) A correctional or detention facility shall not place an...

§ 12-32-103. Necessary female prenatal nutrition and hygiene products required - (a) A correctional or detention facility shall establish a policy...

Chapter 41 - Local Correctional Facilities

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 12-41-101. Good time allowance - (a) An inmate committed by any court in Arkansas to...

§ 12-41-102. Good time — Classification of inmates - (a) There is established a classification committee consisting of such...

§ 12-41-103. Good time — Forfeiture and restoration - (a) All meritorious good time shall be forfeited by the...

§ 12-41-104. Emergency furloughs - Under rules prescribed by the county sheriff or chief of...

§ 12-41-105. Commissions from prisoner telephone services and profits from prisoner commissary services - (a) (1) Commissions derived from prisoner telephone services and profits...

§ 12-41-106. Medicaid eligibility of an inmate in a local correctional facility - (a) If an inmate in a local correctional facility receives...

§ 12-41-107. Medical services billing to a local correctional facility — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Healthcare professional” means...

§ 12-41-108. Behavioral health and risk screening tool — Database entry - A local correctional facility is encouraged to: (1) Adopt independently,...

Subchapter 2 - Criminal Justice Centers

§ 12-41-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Law” means a statute...

§ 12-41-202. Authority to contract — Prerequisites - (a) A county in this state and a municipality in...

§ 12-41-203. Terms of contract - (a) The contract must provide that the county sheriffs of...

§ 12-41-204. Financing - (a) The governing body of a municipality or county contracting,...

§ 12-41-205. Use of center by courts - (a) A circuit court or district court having jurisdiction in...

§ 12-41-206. Determination of applicable law - (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the...

§ 12-41-207. Custody in center - (a) A person who is in the justice center in...

§ 12-41-208. Extradition and transfer - (a) Arkansas agrees that a person who is in the...

§ 12-41-209. Service of process - (a) (1) A person who is summoned to appear in...

§ 12-41-210. Right of arrest - (a) If the other state enacts legislation as provided in...

Subchapter 3 - County Houses of Correction

§ 12-41-301. Purchase of land - (a) (1) The county courts of the several counties in...

§ 12-41-302. Construction of facility - (a) When any farm or tract of land has been...

§ 12-41-303. Contracts governed by existing laws - All contracts, appropriations, and disbursements of money concerning the purchase...

§ 12-41-304. Supervision by court - (a) The county court shall have general supervisory control over...

§ 12-41-305. Superintendent - (a) The county court of any county in which any...

§ 12-41-306. Commitment to house of correction - (a) When any house of correction has been erected as...

§ 12-41-307. Labor of inmates - (a) All persons sentenced to confinement in the house of...

§ 12-41-308. Products of labor — Application - (a) The product of all labor of the prisoners confined...

Subchapter 4 - City Jails

§ 12-41-401. Erection and maintenance - (a) The city council shall have power to erect, establish,...

§ 12-41-402. Food for prisoners - It shall be the duty of the keeper of the...

§ 12-41-403. Police matron - (a) In all cities of the first class there shall...

§ 12-41-404. Expenses of county prisoners held in municipal jail - (a) The governing bodies in the various municipalities in this...

§ 12-41-405. Management of city jail populations - (a) (1) The chief of police, or his or her...

Subchapter 5 - County Jails

§ 12-41-502. Supervision - The county sheriff of each county in this state shall...

§ 12-41-503. Management of local jail populations - (a) County sheriffs and other keepers or administrators of jails...

§ 12-41-504. Feeding and keeping prisoners - The quorum court in each county shall prescribe the method...

§ 12-41-505. Expenses and support - (a) (1) Every person who is committed to the common...

§ 12-41-506. Expenses of municipal prisoners held in county jails - (a) (1) In the absence of an agreement on jail...

§ 12-41-507. Securing of county jail - (a) Whenever the county sheriff of any county of this...

§ 12-41-508. Duty of grand jury - (a) It shall be the duty of the grand jury...

§ 12-41-509. Commitment to jail of another county - (a) (1) The county sheriff of any county in this...

§ 12-41-510. United States prisoners - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of the keeper...

§ 12-41-511. Imprisonment of county sheriff - (a) The county sheriff may be imprisoned in the jail...

Subchapter 6 - County Jail Revenue Bond Act of 1981

§ 12-41-601. Title - This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the...

§ 12-41-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the county...

§ 12-41-603. Construction - (a) This subchapter shall be construed liberally. (b) The enumeration...

§ 12-41-604. Adoption of ordinance - Any county quorum court desiring to construct or expand county...

§ 12-41-605. County jail boards - (a) Any county electing to issue county jail revenue bonds...

§ 12-41-606. Bonds — Authority to issue - The county jail board is authorized and empowered to issue...

§ 12-41-607. Bonds — Authorizing resolution - (a) The bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the...

§ 12-41-608. Bonds — Contract between parties — Enforcement - (a) Each authorizing resolution or trust indenture, together with this...

§ 12-41-609. Bonds — Terms and conditions - (a) As the county jail board shall determine, the bonds...

§ 12-41-610. Bonds — Sale - The bonds may be sold in such manner and at...

§ 12-41-611. Bonds — Coupons — Execution — Seal - (a) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be executed...

§ 12-41-612. Bonds — Liability on - (a) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be obligations...

§ 12-41-613. Bonds — Pledge of revenues — Funds - (a) The principal, premiums, if any, interest, and trustee's and...

§ 12-41-614. Bonds — Tax exemption - Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter, and the...

§ 12-41-615. Bonds — Investment by public entities - (a) Any municipality, or any board, commission, or other governing...

§ 12-41-616. Creation of rights - This subchapter shall not create any right of any character,...

Subchapter 7 - Jail Boards — Revenue Bonds

§ 12-41-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the county...

§ 12-41-702. Method supplemental - The method set forth in this subchapter for construction, renovation,...

§ 12-41-703. Adoption of ordinance - Any county quorum court or governing body of a municipality...

§ 12-41-704. Jail boards - (a) (1) Any county, municipality, or public instrumentality electing to...

§ 12-41-705. Bonds — Authority to issue - The county jail board, municipal jail board, or public instrumentality...

§ 12-41-706. Bonds — Authorizing resolution - (a) The bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the...

§ 12-41-707. Bonds — Contract between parties — Enforcement - (a) Together with this subchapter and the ordinance or resolution...

§ 12-41-708. Bonds — Terms and conditions - (a) As the county jail board, municipal jail board, or...

§ 12-41-709. Bonds — Sale — Disposition of proceeds - (a) The bonds may be sold in such manner and...

§ 12-41-710. Bonds — Coupons — Execution — Seal - (a) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall bear the...

§ 12-41-711. Bonds — Liability on - (a) (1) Bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be...

§ 12-41-712. Bonds — Pledge of revenues — Funds - (a) (1) The principal, premiums, if any, interest on, and...

§ 12-41-713. Bonds — Tax exemption - Bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued under the provisions...

§ 12-41-714. Bonds — Investments by public entities - (a) Any municipality, board, commission, governing authority established by ordinance...

§ 12-41-715. Fees, costs, etc. — Disposition - (a) Any county, municipality, or public instrumentality may, by ordinance...

§ 12-41-716. Use of board jail fund for supervision and transportation of inmates - In addition to any other purposes for which funds in...

§ 12-41-717. Contract with governmental entities — Authority to create boards - (a) Each county, municipality, public instrumentality, and other governmental entity...

§ 12-41-718. Sole and exclusive law - (a) Except as provided under § 12-41-702, the provisions of...

§ 12-41-719. Repayment of debt - Any municipality, county, public instrumentality, or other governmental entity may...

Subchapter 8 - Juvenile Detention Facilities Cooperative Development and Operations Act

§ 12-41-801. Title - This subchapter shall be referred to and may be cited...

§ 12-41-802. Legislative findings and determinations - (a) The General Assembly finds that adequate juvenile detention facilities...

§ 12-41-803. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Governing body” means the:...

§ 12-41-804. Regional detention facilities - (a) Local governmental units are authorized to cooperate with other...

§ 12-41-806. Matching requirements - (a) (1) Grant and loan funds shall only be awarded...

§ 12-41-807. Operating fund account - (a) There is hereby established an operating fund account not...

§ 12-41-808. Abatement of loan balances - Any loan balances accrued pursuant to the revolving loan fund...

§ 12-41-809. Juvenile detention centers or facilities - (a) Juvenile detention centers or juvenile detention facilities shall operate...

Chapter 42 - Labor of County and City Prisoners

§ 12-42-101. Definition - As used in §§ 12-42-109, 12-42-110, 12-42-112, 12-42-113, and 12-42-115,...

§ 12-42-102. Penalties - A person who uses the work of a prisoner or...

§ 12-42-103. County farm — Purchase authorized - Plenary power is conferred upon the county levying court at...

§ 12-42-104. Leasing procedure exclusive - It shall be unlawful for any county judge or mayor...

§ 12-42-105. Workhouses and public works - (a) Any person who may be convicted of a misdemeanor...

§ 12-42-106. Contracts with other counties, cities, or towns — Liability - (a) (1) The county court or the county judge thereof...

§ 12-42-107. Procedure when satisfactory contract cannot be made - (a) (1) If the county court or county judge thereof...

§ 12-42-108. Superintendent - (a) In the event that the county court or county...

§ 12-42-109. Management of inmates not hired - (a) Unless the inmates are immediately hired out, the management...

§ 12-42-110. Labor on public works restricted - A county inmate shall not be allowed to work on...

§ 12-42-111. Credit for labor - (a) Every county court or a county official designated by...

§ 12-42-112. Compensation of artisan or mechanic - If any person so convicted is an artisan or mechanic...

§ 12-42-113. Warrants for costs - When inmates employed on public works or improvements or in...

§ 12-42-114. Arrest of escapees - (a) If any prisoner shall escape from the contractor or...

§ 12-42-115. Records of inmates - (a) The county court shall cause a record of all...

§ 12-42-116. Work-study release — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Chief executive officer”...

§ 12-42-117. Voluntary labor - (a) Any of the prisoners in the county jails located...

§ 12-42-118. Appropriations - At its annual or specially called meeting for making appropriations,...

Chapter 49 - Interstate Compacts

Subchapter 1 - Interstate Corrections Compact

§ 12-49-101. Title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Interstate Corrections Compact”.

§ 12-49-102. Text of Interstate Corrections Compact - The Interstate Corrections Compact is enacted into law and entered...

§ 12-49-103. Director's powers - The Director of the Department of Correction is authorized and...

Subchapter 2 - South Central Interstate Corrections Compact

§ 12-49-201. Signing and ratification — Terms - The Governor on behalf of this state is authorized to...

§ 12-49-202. When compact effective — Exchange of documents - (a) When the Governor shall have executed the Compact on...

Subchapter 3 - Bi-State Criminal Justice Center Compact

§ 12-49-301. Text of Bi-State Criminal Justice Center Compact - SECTION 1 Click to view form.The State of Arkansas hereby...

Subchapter 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact [Transferred]

§ 12-50-101. Title - This chapter shall be referred to and may be cited...

§ 12-50-102. Legislative determination - (a) The General Assembly finds that adequate and modern prison...

§ 12-50-103. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Board” means the Board...

§ 12-50-104. Construction - (a) (1) This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish...

§ 12-50-105. Regional correctional commissions - (a) Political subdivisions may individually, or in combination with each...

§ 12-50-106. Contracts for correctional facilities - (a) The Division of Correction, any regional corrections commission, and...

§ 12-50-107. Authority of security employees — Applicability of criminal laws - (a) Security employees of a prison contractor shall be allowed...

§ 12-50-108. Nondelegable responsibilities - No contract for correctional services shall authorize, allow, or imply...

§ 12-50-109. Financing — Contracts with Arkansas Development Finance Authority - (a) (1) The Board of Corrections and any regional corrections...

§ 12-50-110. Hiring preference - State and political subdivision employees whose employment becomes subject to...

§ 12-50-111. Private correctional facilities - (a) (1) No private correctional facility in which inmates committed...

Chapter 51 - Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 12-51-101. Purpose - (a) The compacting states to this interstate compact recognize that...

§ 12-51-102. Definitions - As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 12-51-103. Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision - (a) (1) The compacting states hereby create the “Interstate Commission...

§ 12-51-104. The state council - (a) An Arkansas State Council for the Interstate Commission for...

§ 12-51-105. Powers and duties of the interstate commission - The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall have the...

Subchapter 2 - Organization and Operation of the Interstate Commission

§ 12-51-201. Bylaws - The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall, by a...

§ 12-51-202. Officers and staff - (a) (1) The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall,...

§ 12-51-203. Corporate records of the interstate commission - The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall maintain its...

§ 12-51-204. Qualified immunity, defense, and indemnification - (a) (1) The members, officers, executive director, and employees of...

Subchapter 3 - Activities and Functions of the Interstate Commission

§ 12-51-301. Activities of the interstate commission - (a) The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall meet...

§ 12-51-302. Rulemaking functions of the interstate commission - (a) The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall promulgate...

Subchapter 4 - Oversight, Enforcement, and Dispute Resolution by the Interstate Commission

§ 12-51-401. Oversight - (a) The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall oversee...

§ 12-51-402. Dispute resolution - (a) The compacting states shall report to the Interstate Commission...

§ 12-51-403. Enforcement - The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision in the reasonable...

Subchapter 5 - Finance

§ 12-51-501. Expenses — Assessments — Accounts - (a) The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision shall pay...

§ 12-51-502. Compacting states, effective date, and amendment - (a) (1) Any state, as defined in Article II of...

Subchapter 6 - Withdraw, Default, Termination, and Judicial Enforcement

§ 12-51-601. Withdrawal - (a) Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and...

§ 12-51-602. Default - (a) If the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision determines...

§ 12-51-603. Judicial enforcement - (a) The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision may, by...

§ 12-51-604. Dissolution of compact - (a) The compact dissolves effective upon the date of the...

Subchapter 7 - Severability and Construction

§ 12-51-701. Severability and construction - (a) The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and...

Subchapter 8 - Binding Effect of Compact and Other Laws

§ 12-51-801. Other laws - (a) Nothing herein prevents the enforcement of any other law...

§ 12-51-802. Binding effect of the compact - (a) All lawful actions of the Interstate Commission for Adult...

Subchapter 9 - Responsible Agencies

§ 12-51-901. Responsible agencies - A fine, fee, or cost that may be levied against...

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Arkansas Code Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs

Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs