The Department of Corrections shall contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-943 for a period of not more than twenty (20) years. The Department of Corrections may include in the contract, as an inflation factor, a three percent (3%) annual increase in the contract price. The state shall retain responsibility for medical care for state offenders to the extent that is required by law.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole
Chapter 5 - Correctional System
Incarceration of State Offenders in County Owned or Leased Correctional Facilities
§ 47-5-933. Contracts for incarceration of state offenders in county facilities; medical care
§ 47-5-934. Extension of contracts for incarceration in event of disruption due to natural disaster
§ 47-5-939. Housing pretrial detainees, county offenders and other persons
§ 47-5-943. Contracts for incarceration; compliance with standards and statutes
§ 47-5-945. Contract restrictions; time; terms; medical care of offenders
§ 47-5-949. Continuing education; high school level degree; vocational education