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

Each superintendent shall develop and implement a plan for the prevention and control of an inmate riot and shall file a report with the Chairman of the Senate Corrections Committee and the Chairman of the House Penitentiary Committee on the first day of each regular session of the Legislature regarding the status of the plan.
In order that the grievances and complaints of inmates, employees and visitors at each facility may be heard in a timely and orderly manner, each superintendent shall appoint or designate an employee at the facility to hear grievances and complaints and to report grievances and complaints to the superintendent. Each superintendent shall institute procedures as are necessary to provide confidentiality to those who file grievances and complaints.

Structure Mississippi Code

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