Mississippi Code
Operation, Management and Personnel
§ 47-5-101. Meetings and minutes of classification and disciplinary hearing officers

Mississippi Code

Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole

Chapter 5 - Correctional System

Operation, Management and Personnel

§ 47-5-1. Policy of state in operation and management of correctional system; independent internal examinations

§ 47-5-3. Facilities of the correctional system; their purposes and locations

§ 47-5-4. Definitions

§ 47-5-5. Limited centralization of facilities

§ 47-5-7. Seal

§ 47-5-10. Department of Corrections; general powers and duties

§ 47-5-11. Department to collect certain prison, probation and post-release supervision data; report to Oversight Task Force

§ 47-5-20. Powers and duties of commissioner

§ 47-5-23. Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections

§ 47-5-26. Commissioner of Corrections; employment of deputy commissioners, administrative assistant for parole matters, and prison superintendents

§ 47-5-28. Additional powers and duties of commissioner

§ 47-5-31. Reports by commissioner; inventory

§ 47-5-33. Commissioner authorized to administer oaths, and to summon and examine witnesses

§ 47-5-35. Auditor for correctional system

§ 47-5-37. Fiscal comptroller, bookkeepers, and assistants; maintenance of modern accounting system; commissioner to sign warrants

§ 47-5-41. Employees' oath of office

§ 47-5-43. Workers' compensation coverage

§ 47-5-47. Nepotism prohibited; employees not to be interested in contracts

§ 47-5-49. Employees not to engage in other business

§ 47-5-54. Status of employees as peace officers; promulgation and enforcement of speed limits upon grounds of correctional facilities

§ 47-5-55. Exemption from jury service

§ 47-5-56. Lease of property; operating funds; disposal of income; transfer of property

§ 47-5-58. Sales by commissary to persons or agencies

§ 47-5-70. "Board" and "lessee" defined

§ 47-5-71. Construction or pavement of roads

§ 47-5-72. Establishment of regional recycling centers at regional correctional facilities; participation of inmates in recycling center work program

§ 47-5-75. Suits by or against board of corrections; tort liability insurance

§ 47-5-76. Payment of court costs for inmate's civil action against Department employee pertaining to condition of confinement

§ 47-5-77. Remission to State Treasurer of funds belonging to correctional system; payment of bills and accounts of correctional system

§ 47-5-78. Creation of the "Lambert State Forest Revolving Fund."

§ 47-5-79. How purchases to be made

§ 47-5-85. Chapel for religious worship; chaplain

§ 47-5-87. No gasoline or motor oil to be sold

§ 47-5-89. No solicitation nor contribution for political purposes

§ 47-5-91. Transportation of children of employees to school; payment of tuition

§ 47-5-93. Governor to make inspections

§ 47-5-94. Annual structural and environmental inspections; report of findings

§ 47-5-95. Officials to be admitted to places where offenders kept and worked; visitors to correctional system facilities

§ 47-5-99. Creation of classification hearing officers and disciplinary hearing officers

§ 47-5-101. Meetings and minutes of classification and disciplinary hearing officers

§ 47-5-104. Demotion of offender or forfeiture of earned time

§ 47-5-105. Entry of bids, bills, and invoices in minutes before award or payment; copies to be sent

§ 47-5-107. Cancellation of contracts

§ 47-5-108. Self-sustaining food facilities established at certain penitentiary and correctional facilities; Employee Cafeteria Funds