If any person sentenced to the Mississippi Department of Corrections for any term shall escape or attempt to escape from his particular unit or camp of confinement or the boundaries of the penitentiary as a whole, or shall escape or attempt to escape from custody before confinement therein, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in such prison for a term not exceeding five (5) years, to commence from and after the expiration of the original term of his imprisonment as extended in consequence of such escape or attempted escape.
Any convict who is entrusted to leave the boundaries of confinement by authorities of the Mississippi Department of Corrections or by the Governor, and who willfully fails to return within the stipulated time, or after the accomplishment of the purpose for which he was entrusted to leave, shall be an escapee and, upon conviction, shall be subject to the penalties provided under this section.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 9 - Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice
§ 97-9-3. Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc.
§ 97-9-5. Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished
§ 97-9-11. Champerty and maintenance; solicitation and stirring up of litigation prohibited
§ 97-9-13. Champerty and maintenance; penalty
§ 97-9-15. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of party
§ 97-9-17. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of attorney representing party
§ 97-9-19. Champerty and maintenance; penalty for false affidavit
§ 97-9-23. Champerty and maintenance; exceptions; legislative intent
§ 97-9-25. Escape of inmates of state institutions; aiding, abetting, etc.
§ 97-9-27. Escape of prisoners; conveying articles useful for escape to felons
§ 97-9-29. Escape of prisoners; aiding escape of felons generally; rescuing prisoners from custody
§ 97-9-33. Escape of prisoners; aiding escapes from officers
§ 97-9-35. Escape of prisoners; permitting escape
§ 97-9-37. Escape of prisoners; private persons having custody of prisoner arrested on suspicion
§ 97-9-41. Escape of prisoners; concealing or harboring escaped prisoner
§ 97-9-43. Escape of prisoners; escapee may be retaken after term expires and imprisoned until tried
§ 97-9-53. Indictments; penalty for disclosing facts relating to indictment
§ 97-9-55. Intimidating judge, juror, witness, attorney, etc., or otherwise obstructing justice
§ 97-9-57. Officer not to converse with juror; penalty
§ 97-9-59. Perjury; definition
§ 97-9-63. Perjury; subornation of
§ 97-9-65. Perjury; bribery to procure
§ 97-9-69. Property levied on; removing without authority
§ 97-9-71. Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers
§ 97-9-75. Resisting service of process