Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections

NRS 209.116 - Board to adopt regulations establishing maximum number of prisoners who may be incarcerated in private facility or institution. - 1. To ensure the safety of the residents of the...

NRS 209.121 - Director of Department: Appointment; qualifications; salary; other employment prohibited. - 1. The Chief Administrative and Fiscal Officer of the Department...

NRS 209.131 - Director of Department: Duties. - The Director shall: 1. Administer the Department under the direction...

NRS 209.1315 - Director of Department: Training of correctional staff. - The Director may continue to develop and implement, in each...

NRS 209.132 - Director of Department: Authority to delegate powers, duties or functions. - 1. The Director may delegate to a deputy director, manager,...

NRS 209.134 - Director of Department: Submission to county clerk of list of offenders released from prison or discharged from parole. - On or before the fifth day of each month, the...

NRS 209.136 - Director of Department: Notification of Legislature regarding certain matters. - The Director shall notify the Senate Standing Committee on Finance...

NRS 209.141 - Agreements with governmental agencies and private organizations. - The Director may, with the approval of the Board and...

NRS 209.151 - Deputy directors: Appointment; duties; other employment prohibited. - 1. The Director shall appoint a Deputy Director for Industrial...

NRS 209.153 - Deputy Director for Industrial Programs: Retirement benefits. - The Deputy Director for Industrial Programs appointed pursuant to subsection...

NRS 209.161 - Wardens of institutions: Appointment; duties. - 1. The Director shall appoint a warden for each institution...

NRS 209.181 - Officers and employees residing at institution or facility: Charges and perquisites; notice to Legislature. - 1. If the Director finds that it is necessary or...

NRS 209.183 - Travel expenses authorized for certain employees at specified correctional centers and conservation camps; exceptions. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, in addition...

NRS 209.189 - Fund for Prison Industries. - 1. The Fund for Prison Industries is hereby created as...

NRS 209.192 - Fund for New Construction of Facilities for Prison Industries. - 1. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a...

NRS 209.194 - Silver State Industries Endowment Fund. - 1. The Silver State Industries Endowment Fund is hereby created...

NRS 209.221 - Offenders’ Store Fund; statement of offender’s financial situation; criminal penalties relating to concealment of assets and provision of false or misleading financial information. - 1. The Offenders’ Store Fund is hereby created as a...

NRS 209.225 - Investment and disbursement of interest and income of Offenders’ Store Fund. - 1. The Director shall deposit the Offenders’ Store Fund with...

NRS 209.229 - Operation of vending machines in visitors’ areas; profits from operation to be deposited in Offenders’ Store Fund. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the Department...

NRS 209.231 - Deposit of money received from operation of conservation camp into Division of Forestry Account; powers and duties of State Forester Firewarden. - 1. Any money received from the operation of any conservation...

NRS 209.239 - Regulation of personal property of offenders. - Subject to the approval of the Director, the warden of...

NRS 209.241 - Safekeeping of money and valuables of offenders: Prisoners’ Personal Property Fund; duties of Director; withdrawals by offenders; monthly statement; disbursement of interest and income; penalties; exemptions. - 1. The Director may accept money, including the net amount...

NRS 209.243 - Administrative claim by prisoner for loss of personal property, property damage, personal injuries or other claims; regulations. - 1. A prisoner or former prisoner may file an administrative...

NRS 209.244 - Attorney General may establish program for mediating complaints from offenders; duties. - 1. The Attorney General may establish a program for mediating...

NRS 209.246 - Deductions from individual account of offender. - The Director shall, with the approval of the Board, establish...

NRS 209.247 - Deductions from individual account of offender: Limitation on deductions; order of priority. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 209.2475 and subsection...

NRS 209.2473 - Regulations regarding deductions. - 1. The Department may adopt regulations necessary to carry out...

NRS 209.2475 - Deductions from individual account of offender: Limitations; disposition of remaining money upon release of offender; reduction or elimination; transmittal. - 1. The Director shall not make any deduction from the...

NRS 209.248 - Account for disbursements to offenders: Establishment; use; reimbursement. - 1. The Department shall establish in any insured bank, credit...

NRS 209.249 - Package program for offenders: Establishment; limitations. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3,...

NRS 209.251 - Books and papers kept by Board or Director: Inspection; delivery to successors. - All books and papers kept by or under the direction...

NRS 209.254 - Department to provide list of persons eligible for parole. - At least 40 days before any scheduled action of the...

NRS 209.261 - Transportation of offender to appropriate institution or facility. - 1. Upon notification by the county clerk of any county...

NRS 209.273 - Unnecessary expense not allowed; offenders transported collectively. - The officer in charge shall transport at the same time...

NRS 209.274 - Transportation of offender to appear before court. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, when an...

NRS 209.2745 - Payment for transportation of offender to appear as witness in action for small claims. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, if an...

NRS 209.276 - Reimbursement for transportation of witness in action by offender concerning civil rights. - If an offender has filed an action in federal court...

NRS 209.281 - Temporary interstate transportation. - An officer of the Department may transport an offender temporarily...

NRS 209.291 - Transfer of offenders: Within Department; to other governmental agencies; between United States and foreign country. - 1. The Director may transfer an offender: (a) From one...

NRS 209.293 - Transfer of offender to correctional institution of another state. - The Director may transfer to a correctional institution of another...

NRS 209.301 - Transfer of minors to state facility for detention of children. - 1. The Department may transfer a person who is a...

NRS 209.311 - Transfer of persons detained in local facility to institution or facility of Department for safekeeping. - 1. At the request of a county sheriff or the...

NRS 209.321 - Transfer of offender for psychiatric observation or treatment. - The Director may arrange for the transfer of an offender...

NRS 209.331 - Medical evaluation or treatment of offender outside institution or facility. - An offender may be taken outside an institution or facility...

NRS 209.341 - Director to establish system of initial classification and evaluation for offenders; assignment of offender to appropriate institution or facility of Department; administration of risk and needs assessment; validation study. - 1. The Director shall: (a) Establish, with the approval of...

NRS 209.345 - Director to establish system to track expenses related to housing youthful offenders; report regarding expenses tracked by system. - 1. The Director shall establish a system to track expenses...

NRS 209.351 - Director to establish system of ongoing classification and evaluation for offenders and to maintain records. - The Director shall: 1. Establish a system of ongoing classification...

NRS 209.3515 - Director may request or provide medical or mental health records of certain offenders. - 1. The Director, through the Medical Director, may request from...

NRS 209.3517 - Director may apply for determination of eligibility for Medicaid on behalf of offender. - The Director of the Department or his or her designee...

NRS 209.352 - Director may establish system for offender management. - The Director may establish, with the approval of the Board,...

NRS 209.353 - Department to collect and submit information regarding offenders to Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History. - The Department shall collect and submit to the Central Repository...

NRS 209.354 - Department to monitor each private facility or institution which houses prisoners who are incarcerated pursuant to authority of another state; reimbursement for costs of such monitoring. - 1. The Department shall monitor each private facility or institution...

NRS 209.356 - Director to establish program of regimental discipline. - The Director, with the approval of the Board, shall establish...

NRS 209.361 - Director to adopt regulations and penalties for violations. - The Director shall: 1. Adopt with the approval of the...

NRS 209.365 - Director to establish program to prevent offenders from possessing or receiving certain publications. - 1. The Director shall adopt, with the approval of the...

NRS 209.367 - Director to establish program for testing of offenders for use of alcohol and controlled substances. - 1. The Director shall establish a program, to be carried...

NRS 209.369 - Limitation on imposition of disciplinary segregation; assignment to solitary confinement for safety of offender; procedure for imposition of disciplinary segregation; requirement for psychological evaluation; request for release; condit... - 1. The Department or a private facility or institution shall...

NRS 209.371 - Corporal punishment and inhumane treatment prohibited. - Corporal punishment and inhumane treatment of offenders are prohibited. (Added...

NRS 209.376 - Limitations on use of restraints on offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or recuperating from delivery. - 1. No restraints of any kind may be used on...

NRS 209.381 - Diet, housing and hygiene of offenders; medical and dental services of institutions and facilities. - 1. Each offender in an institution or facility of the...

NRS 209.3815 - Autopsy of offenders. - The Director, in consultation with the Medical Director and the...

NRS 209.382 - Chief Medical Officer to examine and report on medical and dental services, diet of offenders, sanitation and safety in institutions and facilities. - 1. The Chief Medical Officer shall periodically examine and shall...

NRS 209.3825 - Order by court affecting conditions of confinement of prisoner; Director entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard; exception. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a court...

NRS 209.385 - Testing offenders for exposure to human immunodeficiency virus; disclosure of name of offender whose tests are positive; segregation of offender; duties of Director. - Repealed. (See chapter 491, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page...

NRS 209.387 - Legislative findings and declarations regarding programs for education of offenders. - The Legislature finds and declares that the program for general...

NRS 209.389 - Board to establish programs for general education, vocational education and training and other rehabilitation. - 1. The Board shall establish by regulation programs of general...

NRS 209.391 - Director to administer programs of education, training and rehabilitation, to establish programs for counseling, research, statistics and planning and to purchase textbooks. - The Director shall: 1. Establish programs to provide medical, psychological,...

NRS 209.392 - Residential confinement: Duration; notification to victim; eligibility; violation of terms or conditions; status; restitution. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 209.3923, 209.3925 and...

NRS 209.3923 - Residential confinement or other appropriate supervision of certain older offenders: Eligibility; notification to victim; effect of violation of terms and conditions; status; restitution. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the Director...

NRS 209.3925 - Residential confinement or other appropriate supervision of offenders who are physically incapacitated or in ill health: Eligibility; request for medical release; duration; notice; notification to victim; effect of violation of terms o... - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the Director...

NRS 209.393 - Regulations regarding literacy of offenders. - The Board may adopt regulations which: 1. Designate a level...

NRS 209.396 - Limitations on assignment of offender to industrial or vocational school; educational requirements for offender with developmental, learning or other disability. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, an offender...

NRS 209.401 - Director may establish facilities for offenders to live in community. - The Director may, with the approval of the Board, establish...

NRS 209.417 - Offenders not to have access to telecommunications devices; exceptions. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the warden...

NRS 209.419 - Interception of offender’s communications by telecommunications devices: Notice; exceptions. - 1. Communications made by an offender on any telephone or...

NRS 209.423 - Visits and correspondence between offenders and others. - Wardens and managers may authorize visits and correspondence between offenders...

NRS 209.42305 - Prisoner contact with child of prisoner; use of equipment for videoconference. - 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, by order of...

NRS 209.4231 - Definitions. - As used in NRS 209.4231 to 209.4244, inclusive, unless the...

NRS 209.42315 - "Co-occurring disorder" defined. - "Co-occurring disorder" means the presence of at least one mental...

NRS 209.4232 - "Division" defined. - "Division" means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of...

NRS 209.4233 - "Program of aftercare" defined. - "Program of aftercare" means a program that is established pursuant...

NRS 209.42335 - "Program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders" defined. - "Program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring...

NRS 209.4234 - "Substance use disorder" defined. - "Substance use disorder" means a cluster of cognitive, behavioral and...

NRS 209.4235 - "Therapeutic community" defined. - Repealed. (See chapter 51, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page...

NRS 209.4236 - Director to establish programs of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders. - 1. The Director shall, in conjunction with the Division and...

NRS 209.4237 - Program to evaluate offenders for participation in program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders; assignment to participate in program of treatment. - 1. The Director shall, in conjunction with the Division and...

NRS 209.4238 - Programs of aftercare. - 1. The Director shall, in conjunction with the Division and...

NRS 209.4239 - Removal from program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders or program of aftercare; Director may establish conditions, sanctions and incentives regarding participation; immunity. - 1. The Director or a person designated by the Director...

NRS 209.424 - Offenders excluded from participation. - An offender may not participate in a program of treatment...

NRS 209.4242 - Director may contract with qualified persons. - To carry out the provisions of NRS 209.4231 to 209.4244,...

NRS 209.4244 - Report by Director to Legislature. - The Director shall provide the following information to the Interim...

NRS 209.425 - Establishment of program; program to include rehabilitation, education and counseling; assignment of wages. - 1. The Director shall, with the approval of the Board,...

NRS 209.427 - Assignment of offender to program; withdrawal of offender from program. - 1. If the results of an evaluation conducted pursuant to...

NRS 209.429 - Director to assign offender to serve term of residential confinement under certain circumstances; notice to victim; effect of violating terms or conditions of residential confinement; status; restitution. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 7 and 8,...

NRS 209.4291 - Establishment of program; duties of Department; condition of participation in program. - 1. The Department of Corrections shall establish a diversion program...

NRS 209.4293 - Court authorized to remand probation violator to program for supervision and to receive treatment for an alcohol or other substance use disorder or for a mental illness; eligibility for treatment. - 1. A district court may remand a probationer who is...

NRS 209.4295 - Payment of cost of supervision and treatment; performance of community service as contribution toward cost; issuance of judgment for unpaid costs. - 1. A probation violator who is placed in the diversion...

NRS 209.4297 - Release of probationer from supervision; completion of remaining or additional period of probation; revocation of probation. - 1. When the court determines that a probation violator who...

NRS 209.4299 - Submission of report concerning probationers participating in program. - The Department of Corrections and the Division of Parole and...

NRS 209.432 - Definitions. - As used in NRS 209.432 to 209.453, inclusive, unless the...

NRS 209.433 - Credits for offender sentenced on or before June 30, 1969. - 1. Every offender who was sentenced to prison on or...

NRS 209.443 - Credits for offender sentenced after June 30, 1969, for crime committed before July 1, 1985. - 1. Every offender who is sentenced to prison after June...

NRS 209.446 - Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 1, 1985, but before July 17, 1997. - 1. Every offender who is sentenced to prison for a...

NRS 209.4465 - Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 17, 1997. - 1. An offender who is sentenced to prison for a...

NRS 209.447 - Credits for offender sentenced after June 30, 1991, for crime committed before July 1, 1985, and released on parole. - 1. An offender who is sentenced after June 30, 1991,...

NRS 209.4475 - Credits for offender on parole as of January 1, 2004, or released on parole on or after January 1, 2004. - 1. In addition to any credits earned pursuant to NRS...

NRS 209.4477 - Credits for offender incarcerated during state of emergency due to communicable or infectious disease. - 1. An offender who is actually incarcerated in an institution...

NRS 209.448 - Credits for completion of program of treatment for an alcohol or other substance use disorder. - 1. An offender who has no serious infraction of the...

NRS 209.449 - Credits for completion of vocational education and training or other program. - 1. An offender who has no serious infraction of the...

NRS 209.4495 - Limitation on amount of credit offender may earn. - 1. Notwithstanding any provision of NRS 209.432 to 209.453, inclusive,...

NRS 209.451 - Forfeiture and restoration of credits. - 1. If an offender: (a) Commits an assault upon his...

NRS 209.453 - Expedited resolution of challenge to computation of time served. - The Department shall adopt regulations to establish procedures for the...

NRS 209.457 - Program for operating conservation camps. - 1. The State Forester Firewarden shall, in cooperation with the...

NRS 209.459 - Employment of offenders: Report on potential impacts of new program; program for employment in services and manufacturing; submission of contract related to new program for approval. - 1. The Director shall: (a) Submit a report to the...

NRS 209.461 - Duties and powers of Director; requirements for programs for employment of offenders; prohibited types of vocational training, employment and businesses; determination of profit of program of employment; no right of offender to employme... - 1. The Director shall: (a) To the greatest extent possible,...

NRS 209.4615 - Offender to obtain approval of Director for employment, contractual activity or business activity; private employment of offender. - 1. An offender shall obtain the approval of the Director...

NRS 209.462 - Director to provide secure facility for production of license plates. - The Director shall provide a secure facility to be used...

NRS 209.463 - Deductions from wages earned by offender during incarceration; limitation on deductions; priority of deductions. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 209.2475, and subject...

NRS 209.471 - Offender may be allowed to participate in program beneficial to community. - The Director, with the approval of the Board, may allow...

NRS 209.481 - Assignment of offender to institution or facility of minimum security. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 176A.780, the Director...

NRS 209.4815 - Procedure for emergency purchase of supplies, materials or equipment. - The Director may establish a procedure for the emergency purchase...

NRS 209.4817 - Committee on Industrial Programs: Creation; members; terms of appointed members; appointment of alternate members; payment of compensation, allowances and travel expenses. - Repealed. (See chapter 392, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page...

NRS 209.4818 - Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary: Duties relating to industrial programs. - 1. The Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary shall:...

NRS 209.4827 - Centers to house offenders. - The Director may: 1. With the approval of the Board,...

NRS 209.4829 - Assignment of offender to center. - The Director may assign an offender to a center for...

NRS 209.4831 - Deduction from wages of offender for living expenses. - The Director shall determine, with the approval of the Board,...

NRS 209.4837 - Agreement for assignment and distribution of wages of offender; schedule of restitution. - Once the Director determines that restitution voluntarily offered by the...

NRS 209.4841 - Distribution of earnings of offender. - 1. The Director shall arrange for all earnings of an...

NRS 209.4843 - Termination of payments of restitution. - Payments of restitution through the Department must terminate: 1. When...

NRS 209.4871 - Definitions.As used in NRS 209.4871 to 209.4889, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 209.4873 to 209.488, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. - (Added to NRS by 2001, 1160; A 2003, 2578)

NRS 209.4873 - "Correctional program" defined. - "Correctional program" means a program for reentry of offenders and...

NRS 209.4874 - "Division" defined. - "Division" means the Division of Parole and Probation of the...

NRS 209.4877 - "Judicial program" defined. - "Judicial program" means a program for reentry of offenders and...

NRS 209.488 - "Reentry court" defined. - "Reentry court" means the court in a judicial district that...

NRS 209.4883 - Judicial program: Establishment; assignment of offenders; supervision of offenders. - 1. A judicial district may establish a judicial program for...

NRS 209.4886 - Participation in judicial program: Referral of offender to reentry court; powers and duties of Director; regulations; reimbursement of costs; effect of violation of terms and conditions; status of offender. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a...

NRS 209.4887 - Correctional program: Establishment; assignment of offenders; restitution. - 1. The Director may establish a correctional program for reentry...

NRS 209.4888 - Participation in correctional program: Suitability of offender; powers and duties of Director; regulations; reimbursement of costs; effect of violation of terms and conditions; status of offender. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a...

NRS 209.4889 - Powers and duties of Director: Contracting for certain services for offenders or parolees in correctional or judicial program; providing referrals and information regarding services; applying for and accepting gifts and grants. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 208.280, the Director...

NRS 209.492 - Status while participating in work or educational release program or other assignment. - Any offender participating in work or educational release programs or...

NRS 209.501 - Temporary furloughs. - 1. The Director may grant temporary furloughs consistent with classification...

NRS 209.511 - Duties and authorized actions of Director relating to release of offenders from prison; payment of costs. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Duties and authorized actions of Director relating to release of offenders from prison; pay... - 1. Before an offender is released from prison by expiration...

NRS 209.517 - Notice to Department of Motor Vehicles when certain offenders have completed period of imprisonment or are placed on residential confinement. - The Director shall notify the Department of Motor Vehicles when...

NRS 209.521 - Notification of victim of escape or release of offender. - 1. If a victim of an offender provides his or...

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Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections

Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections