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§ 47-5-110.1. Offenders to pay costs of requested transfers between facilities - Whenever an offender in the custody of the Department of...
§ 47-5-110.2. Persons sentenced to custody of department after January 1, 2017, can no longer be sentenced to regimented inmate discipline program - From and after January 1, 2017, no person to be...
§ 47-5-111. Transportation of offenders to correctional system facilities; processing of offenders at receiving stations - The commissioner shall make suitable provision and regulations for the...
§ 47-5-113. Offenders of the United States courts - The offenders of the courts of the United States sentenced...
§ 47-5-115. Offenders whose capital sentences are commuted - Any offender who has been sentenced to suffer death, and...
§ 47-5-119. Initial search of offender; disposition of money found thereon; misappropriation of offender's money - Offenders, when received into a facility of the correctional system,...
§ 47-5-121. Separation of sexes - All female offenders shall be kept separate and apart from...
§ 47-5-122. Agricultural production as part of disciplinary or other programs; contracts for federal subsidies - The Commissioner of Corrections may provide for agricultural production in...
§ 47-5-124. Uniform designations for offenders; restrictions on possession of radios, televisions and similar electronic devices; restrictions on weight lifting programs - No offender may wear any article of clothing that is...
§ 47-5-126. Working of inmates - All inmates, unless physically unable, shall be required to perform...
§ 47-5-129. Offenders to work certain roads; Sunflower County - Sunflower County shall have the use of not over thirty-five...
§ 47-5-131. Offenders to work certain roads; Quitman County - Quitman County, Mississippi, shall have the use of not over...
§ 47-5-133. Drainage of correctional system property; restriction on working of offenders off correctional system property - The commissioner is authorized and empowered to use the offenders...
§ 47-5-134. Offenders to work for Habitat for Humanity or the Fuller Center for Housing, Inc - The Commissioner of Corrections may authorize the working of offenders,...
§ 47-5-137. Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception - Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the use of...
§ 47-5-140. Earned time handbook - Each county attorney, district attorney, each member of the Parole...
§ 47-5-147. Governor may authorize payment of reward for apprehension of escaped offender - When an offender escapes from the custody of the department,...
§ 47-5-149. United States offenders subject to the laws of the state - If any offender of the United States courts who has...
§ 47-5-151. Death of prisoner; investigations, inquests, and autopsies; fees; penalties - The superintendent (warden) or other person in charge of prisoners,...
§ 47-5-155. Discharged offenders revolving fund - There is hereby created a special fund to be known...
§ 47-5-157. Written discharge or release, clothing, Mississippi driver's license or state identification card, money and bus ticket furnished to discharged or released offender - When an offender is entitled to a discharge from the...
§ 47-5-173. Granting of leave for personal reasons - The commissioner, or his designees, may grant leave to an...
§ 47-5-175. Agreements to transfer state offenders to federal facilities - The Commissioner of Corrections, with the concurrence of the Governor,...
§ 47-5-177. Notice requirements prior to release of offenders - At least fifteen (15) days prior to the release of...
§ 47-5-183. Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database - The Mississippi Department of Corrections is authorized, subject to the...