If any officer or employee of the state or county government, or any employee of the state correctional system, or any other person shall solicit or accept from any employee of the state correctional system, or from any offender therein, any contribution of money or other property for political or election purposes he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty (60) days nor longer than one hundred twenty (120) days, or both, and if an employee of the state correctional system he shall be immediately and permanently removed from further employment with the state correctional system.
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