Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 217 - Department of Corrections
Section 217.130 - Living quarters furnished to employees, fees.

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XIII - Correctional and Penal Institutions

Chapter 217 - Department of Corrections

Section 217.010 - Definitions.

Section 217.015 - Divisions created — sections authorized — purpose of department — women offender program established, purpose — advisory committee established, membership, purpose.

Section 217.020 - Department's powers and duties.

Section 217.021 - Community behavioral health program, purpose — department duties.

Section 217.022 - Prison impact statements, required, when.

Section 217.025 - Director of department, appointment, qualifications, bond, duties.

Section 217.030 - Directors of divisions, appointment — appointment of general personnel.

Section 217.035 - Director's powers and duties — deputy director, appointment, compensation, powers in absence or incapacity of director.

Section 217.040 - Rulemaking authority.

Section 217.043 - United States government, contract powers of department.

Section 217.045 - Federal funds, authority to receive — applications for funds, procedure.

Section 217.050 - Department to sue in name of director — interest authorized.

Section 217.055 - Volunteer program requirements — coverage as unpaid employees by legal expense fund and workers' compensation — use of state vehicles — expenses.

Section 217.070 - State auditor to have access to all records, confidentiality.

Section 217.075 - Offender records, public records, exceptions — inspection of, when — medical records, available, when — copies admissible as evidence — violations, penalty.

Section 217.080 - Department and division to maintain central office in Jefferson City.

Section 217.090 - Lease of buildings on grounds of correctional centers, when — compatibility with services of department required — procedure — bids required — cost — terms of lease — how executed.

Section 217.092 - Leased prison space, deposit of payments.

Section 217.095 - Condemnation powers, when, procedure.

Section 217.100 - Director may enter into agreement for services to department by other state departments or agencies.

Section 217.110 - Workers' compensation to cover all employees of the department.

Section 217.115 - Officers and employees, restrictions on business connections — conversion of department property prohibited, exception — violations, grounds for dismissal.

Section 217.120 - Bribery or receipt of gifts from prisoners by officers or employees of department, penalty — duty to report, failure, effect — director to investigate and report, when.

Section 217.125 - Offenders, labor restrictions.

Section 217.128 - Employee held hostage eligible for paid leave of absence.

Section 217.130 - Living quarters furnished to employees, fees.

Section 217.135 - Food furnished in correctional center, employees to purchase, exception.

Section 217.137 - Prisoner transfers by United States treaty with foreign governments — governor's powers — director's duties.

Section 217.138 - Construction of correctional centers by private entities for state and political subdivisions — housing of state's offenders in city or county jails, costs.

Section 217.139 - Sexual offenders of children, pilot treatment program — costs, how paid — department's duties — annual report.

Section 217.141 - Electrified security fence systems authorized.

Section 217.147 - Sentencing and corrections oversight commission, members, terms, duties, report, expiration date.

Section 217.151 - Restraints, use of on pregnant offenders — definitions — extraordinary circumstances — requirements.

Section 217.160 - Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel — qualifications — to be full-time employee.

Section 217.165 - Chief administrative officers of each correctional center, appointment.

Section 217.170 - Chief administrative officers, duties.

Section 217.175 - Rules and regulations, division director's authority to promulgate.

Section 217.180 - Annual report of division, contents.

Section 217.185 - Reports by chief administrative officers, monthly, to division director, contents.

Section 217.195 - Canteen to be established — inmate canteen fund established, purpose, moneys, how spent.

Section 217.197 - Offender personal property, allowed when — unauthorized property, disposition of.

Section 217.199 - Feminine hygiene products, available at no cost to female offenders.

Section 217.210 - Capacity of correctional centers, how determined — emergency assignment.

Section 217.220 - Death sentence commutation, admittance to correctional center.

Section 217.225 - Federal prisoners, admittance — escapees, how punished — neglect of federal prisoners, liability.

Section 217.230 - Health care services for correctional centers.

Section 217.235 - Chaplain, appointment or arrangement for religious services.

Section 217.240 - Food and clothing of offenders — food deprivation not to be used as punishment.

Section 217.245 - Medical excuse from participation in required activities, procedure.

Section 217.250 - Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement will endanger or shorten life — certification to parole board, report to governor, procedure.

Section 217.255 - Compensation of offenders for labor, academic or vocational classes — hours of work, exceptions — payment to state or crime victims' compensation fund, when.

Section 217.260 - Earnings of offender, paid when — how used, payment to families, when — department powers.

Section 217.262 - Frivolous lawsuits, false testimony, abuse of judicial system by offender — sanctions.

Section 217.265 - Visitors, regulation of — clergymen's privileges.

Section 217.270 - Parole board to have access to offenders and records, when.

Section 217.275 - Carrying letters or writings without authorization prohibited, penalty.

Section 217.280 - Firearms may be carried by designated employees — powers of arrest and apprehension.

Section 217.285 - Clothing, money, transportation, return of personal property to discharged or paroled prisoners — exception.

Section 217.300 - Reception and diagnostic centers for classification of prisoners to be established.

Section 217.305 - Delivery of prisoners to correctional centers with certain required information.

Section 217.310 - Examination of new prisoners — identification data recorded.

Section 217.315 - System of identification, department to establish.

Section 217.320 - Identification systems, officers not liable for acts done in enforcing law.

Section 217.325 - Identification system mandatory.

Section 217.330 - Department to conduct tests — assignment of offender.

Section 217.335 - Classification teams, established — appointment, qualifications, duties.

Section 217.337 - Schedule of activities, work, and program, adherence to, exemption.

Section 217.343 - Emancipation of certain juvenile offenders for certain purposes.

Section 217.345 - First offenders — mandatory program — physical separation of offenders less than eighteen years of age — rules — contract for provision of services — evaluation process.

Section 217.350 - Transfer of offender, when.

Section 217.355 - Education programs established, what included, enrollment required, when.

Section 217.361 - Risk and need assessment tools — department procedures, duties.

Section 217.362 - Program for offenders with substance abuse addiction — eligibility, disposition, placement — completion, effect.

Section 217.364 - Offenders under treatment program, placement, rules — eligibility — use, purpose, availability — failure to complete.

Section 217.365 - Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband.

Section 217.370 - Discipline and grievance procedures established — chief administrative officer to abide by.

Section 217.375 - Administrative segregation, grounds for — review hearing required — records to be kept — access to medical personnel.

Section 217.380 - Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required — disciplinary segregation, hearing, time period.

Section 217.385 - Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty.

Section 217.390 - Escape, defined — penalty.

Section 217.395 - Escapee's apprehension — reward may be offered, limitations.

Section 217.400 - Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty.

Section 217.405 - Offender abuse, penalty — employees not to use physical force, exception.

Section 217.410 - Abuse of offender, duty to report, penalty — confidentiality of report, immunity from liability — harassment prohibited.

Section 217.412 - Autopsy required, when — reports to be maintained by department.

Section 217.415 - Disqualification from holding position in correctional facility, when.

Section 217.420 - Surgery, general anesthetic not authorized for offender without consent or court order, exceptions, emergencies — treatment against religious beliefs, when allowed.

Section 217.425 - Furlough of prisoners, when — time limitations, exceptions — waiver required, when — notice requirements.

Section 217.430 - Residential treatment centers and community based sanctions — assignment of offenders — contracts to establish, provisions, locations — payments, how made — inmates fund established, use — regulation of inmates.

Section 217.435 - Work or educational release program.

Section 217.437 - Work by offenders, not employment, when — benefitting entity immune from suit, exceptions.

Section 217.439 - Photograph of offender to be taken prior to release, when — provided to victim upon request.

Section 217.440 - Program of restorative justice, requirements.

Section 217.450 - Offender may request final disposition of pending indictment, information or complaint, how requested — director to notify offender of pending actions, failure to notify, effect.

Section 217.455 - Director of division of adult institutions to transmit information and request.

Section 217.460 - Trial to be held, when — failure, effect.

Section 217.465 - Escape by offender, effect of.

Section 217.470 - Transportation expenses, how paid.

Section 217.475 - Director of division of adult institutions to inform prisoner of the law in writing.

Section 217.480 - Uniformity of construction.

Section 217.485 - Title of the law.

Section 217.490 - Agreement on detainers adopted — compact text.

Section 217.495 - Appropriate court defined.

Section 217.500 - Enforcement and cooperation required of whom.

Section 217.505 - Compact not to require application of habitual offender law.

Section 217.510 - Escape by offender, effect on.

Section 217.515 - Chief administrative officer to deliver offender, when.

Section 217.520 - Governor to designate administrator.

Section 217.525 - Director authorized to contract with United States for stated purposes.

Section 217.530 - Convicted offender not to be transferred to state where wanted for crime.

Section 217.535 - Compact adopted — text — contract must comply.

Section 217.540 - Powers and duties of director, delegation authorized.

Section 217.541 - House arrest program, department to establish and regulate — limited release, when — arrest warrant may be issued by probation or parole officer, when — offenders to fund program.

Section 217.542 - Failure to return to house arrest, felony.

Section 217.543 - House arrest authorized for certain prisoners — jailer to establish program — remote electronic surveillance allowed — percentage of prisoner's wage to pay cost — violation penalty — (St. Louis City).

Section 217.550 - Prison industries and services program created — director to administer — approval required — report submitted to director, contents.

Section 217.555 - Advisory board, created, members, appointment, qualifications — duties — compensation.

Section 217.560 - Enterprise program diversification and purpose.

Section 217.565 - Director to provide plants, machinery and materials — distribution of products.

Section 217.567 - Director may contract with private entities for employment of inmates — leasing of correctional facility property — wages, director to set policies.

Section 217.570 - Sales of prison industry goods and services, procedure — open market sales, when.

Section 217.575 - Sales of goods or services to state or political subdivisions — promotion — price — certification of nonavailability required for state purchases, when.

Section 217.580 - Catalog of products furnished public officers — institutions to report estimates of needs.

Section 217.590 - Violations of sections 217.575 and 217.580, penalty.

Section 217.592 - Plasmapheresis program may be established as private enterprise on institution grounds — inmate employment, wages.

Section 217.595 - Working capital revolving fund created — source, uses — accounting, audit — transfer to general revenue prohibited.

Section 217.650 - Definitions.

Section 217.655 - Parole board, general duties — division duties.

Section 217.665 - Board members, appointment, qualifications — terms, vacancies — designation of chair and vice chair — compensation, expenses.

Section 217.670 - Decisions to be by majority vote — hearing panel, membership, duties — jurisdiction removal or appeal to board, when — decision to be final — closed meetings authorized — video conferencing.

Section 217.675 - Handbook of rules governing conduct of parolees furnished to whom, duties of board.

Section 217.680 - Offices, where located — space in correctional centers to be provided for hearings and interviews.

Section 217.682 - Secretary to be appointed, duties.

Section 217.690 - Board may order release or parole — assessment, personal hearing — fee — rules — eligibility for parole, how calculated — first degree murder, eligibility for hearing — hearing procedure — notice — special conditions — education req...

Section 217.692 - Eligibility for parole, offenders with life sentence, when — criteria — perjury, penalty.

Section 217.695 - Release from custody under supervision of division of probation and parole, registration with law enforcement officials required.

Section 217.703 - Earned compliance credits awarded, when.

Section 217.705 - Probation, parole, institutional parole, officers — appointment — duties.

Section 217.710 - Firearms, authority to carry, department's duties, training — rulemaking procedure.

Section 217.718 - Alternative to revocation proceedings, period of detention, requirements.

Section 217.720 - Arrest of person paroled or on conditional release — report — procedure — revocation of parole or release — effect of sentence — arrest of parolee from another state.

Section 217.722 - Probation officers, power to arrest, when — preliminary hearing allowed, when — notice to sentencing court.

Section 217.725 - Board may parole prisoner held on warrant.

Section 217.730 - Parole time as time of imprisonment, exception — final discharge — procedure to register to vote.

Section 217.735 - Lifetime supervision required for certain offenders — electronic monitoring — termination at age sixty-five permitted, when — rulemaking authority.

Section 217.750 - Probation services provided to circuit courts, when.

Section 217.755 - Probation services for courts, rules authorized.

Section 217.760 - Probation and parole officers furnished to circuit courts, when — presentence and preparole investigations — requirements.

Section 217.762 - Presentence investigation, required, when — victim impact statement, prepared when, contents.

Section 217.777 - Community corrections program alternative for eligible offenders, purpose — operation — rules — guidelines.

Section 217.785 - Postconviction drug treatment program, established, rules — required participation, completion — institutional phase — report.

Section 217.800 - Pardons by governor — conditions and restrictions — notice to central repository.

Section 217.805 - Governor may remit fine or forfeiture.

Section 217.810 - Interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers.

Section 217.825 - Citation of law.

Section 217.827 - Definitions.

Section 217.829 - Assets to be listed by prisoners on form under oath — failure to comply, effect — department to request assignments.

Section 217.831 - Director to report to attorney general on offender's assets and cost of care — attorney general's power to investigate and seek reimbursement, when.

Section 217.833 - Percent of offender's assets that may be used for reimbursement — limitation.

Section 217.835 - Jurisdiction, certain circuit courts — service — hearing — support obligations of offender to be considered — court order to reimburse, when.

Section 217.837 - Legal remedies authorized to protect assets of prisoner — execution against homestead of prisoner prohibited — state's claim to have priority.

Section 217.839 - Attorney general's powers and duties — assistance by certain officials required.

Section 217.841 - Costs of investigation, how paid — deposit of reimbursement — fund, created — state treasurer, duties.

Section 217.845 - CARES Act moneys received by offender for COVID-19 to be used for restitution.

Section 217.850 - Correctional center, unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over, offense of — permissible acts — violation, penalty — signage to be posted.

Section 217.930 - Suspension of MO HealthNet medical assistance in lieu of termination, when.

Section 217.940 - Nursery program to be established, purpose — definitions.

Section 217.941 - Eligibility, placement, and program capacity.

Section 217.942 - Written agreement, contents — program policy required.

Section 217.943 - Termination of participation, when.

Section 217.944 - Child support payments, collected and deposited — monetary donations to program permitted.

Section 217.945 - Correctional center nursery program fund created, use of moneys.

Section 217.946 - Regulation and oversight by other agencies subject to department consent.

Section 217.947 - Sovereign immunity in effect — program not a waiver, not considered a dangerous condition.