The department is authorized to bring and maintain suits for the collection and enforcement of all demands and debts owing to the correctional system. No bond for costs, appeal bond, supersedeas bond or other security shall at any time be required of the department in any civil suit of any kind brought by or against it or its employees in their official capacity, except such suits as may be brought against it or them by the State of Mississippi. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi is hereby directed to assist the department in the filing and prosecution of any suits filed herein.
The department shall have the further power and authority, in its discretion, to take adequate liability insurance on the operation of said correctional system, including liability insurance to protect the commissioner and other regular employees of the correctional system from tort actions in any state or federal court.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole
Chapter 5 - Correctional System
Operation, Management and Personnel
§ 47-5-3. Facilities of the correctional system; their purposes and locations
§ 47-5-5. Limited centralization of facilities
§ 47-5-10. Department of Corrections; general powers and duties
§ 47-5-20. Powers and duties of commissioner
§ 47-5-23. Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections
§ 47-5-28. 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
§ 47-5-41. 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
§ 47-5-55. 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
§ 47-5-75. Suits by or against board of corrections; tort liability insurance
§ 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
§ 47-5-99. 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