1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 7 and 8, the Director may assign an offender to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety to serve a term of residential confinement, pursuant to NRS 213.380, for not longer than the remainder of the maximum term or the maximum aggregate term, as applicable, of his or her sentence if the offender has:
(a) Demonstrated a willingness and ability to establish a position of employment in the community;
(b) Demonstrated a willingness and ability to enroll in a program for education or rehabilitation; or
(c) Demonstrated an ability to pay for all or part of the costs of his or her confinement and to meet any existing obligation for restitution to any victim of his or her crime.
2. Before the Director assigns an offender to serve a term of residential confinement pursuant to this section, the Director shall notify the Division of Parole and Probation. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 213.10915, if any victim of a crime committed by the offender has, pursuant to:
(a) Subsection 1 of NRS 209.521, requested to be notified by the Department of Corrections of the offender’s release or escape and has provided a current address, the Department of Corrections shall notify the victim that the Director intends to consider whether to assign the offender to serve a term of residential confinement pursuant to this section and advise the victim that the victim may submit documents for the consideration of the Director regarding such an assignment to the Division of Parole and Probation. If a current address has not been provided as required by subsection 1 of NRS 209.521, the Department of Corrections must not be held responsible if such notification is not received by the victim.
(b) Subsection 4 of NRS 213.131, requested to be notified of the consideration of a prisoner for parole and has provided a current address, the Division of Parole and Probation shall notify the victim if the Director has approved the application for the offender to serve a term of residential confinement pursuant to this section and advise the victim that the victim may submit documents for the consideration of the Division of Parole and Probation regarding such an assignment to the Division of Parole and Probation. If a current address has not been provided as required by subsection 4 of NRS 213.131, the Division of Parole and Probation must not be held responsible if such notification is not received by the victim.
All personal information, including, without limitation, a current or former address, which pertains to a victim and which is received by the Department of Corrections or the Division of Parole and Probation pursuant to this subsection is confidential.
3. Before a person may be assigned to serve a term of residential confinement pursuant to this section, he or she must submit to the Division of Parole and Probation a signed document stating that:
(a) He or she will comply with the terms or conditions of the residential confinement; and
(b) If he or she fails to comply with the terms or conditions of the residential confinement and is taken into custody outside of this State, he or she waives all rights relating to extradition proceedings.
4. If an offender assigned to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation pursuant to this section escapes or violates any of the terms or conditions of his or her residential confinement:
(a) The Division of Parole and Probation may, pursuant to the procedure set forth in NRS 213.410, return the offender to the custody of the Department.
(b) The offender forfeits all or part of the credits earned by the offender to reduce his or her sentence pursuant to this chapter before the escape or violation, as determined by the Director. The Director may provide for a forfeiture of credits pursuant to this paragraph only after proof of the offense and notice to the offender and may restore credits forfeited for such reasons as the Director considers proper. The decision of the Director regarding forfeiture of credits is final.
5. The assignment of an offender to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation pursuant to this section shall be deemed:
(a) A continuation of the offender’s imprisonment and not a release on parole; and
(b) For the purposes of NRS 209.341, an assignment to a facility of the Department,
except that the offender is not entitled to obtain any benefits or to participate in any programs provided to offenders in the custody of the Department.
6. A person does not have a right to be assigned to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation pursuant to this section, or to remain in that custody after such an assignment, and it is not intended that the provisions of this section or of NRS 213.371 to 213.410, inclusive, create any right or interest in liberty or property or establish a basis for any cause of action against the State, its political subdivisions, agencies, boards, commissions, departments, officers or employees.
7. The Director shall not assign an offender who is serving a sentence for committing a battery which constitutes domestic violence pursuant to NRS 33.018 to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation to serve a term of residential confinement unless the Director makes a finding that the offender is not likely to pose a threat to the victim of the battery.
8. In determining whether to assign an offender to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation to serve a term of residential confinement, the Director may consider whether the offender has failed or refused to comply with any term or condition of the entire program of treatment or any term or condition of any other program related to the classification of the offender.
9. The Division of Parole and Probation may receive and distribute restitution paid by an offender assigned to the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation pursuant to this section.
10. As used in this section, "entire program" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 209.427.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 779; A 1993, 1520; 1995, 26, 958, 1253, 1334, 2388; 1997, 628, 1814; 2001, 2587; 2001 Special Session, 195; 2003, 289; 2007, 3174; 2013, 191, 222; 2019, 239)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections
NRS 209.021 - "Board" defined.
NRS 209.031 - "Classification" defined.
NRS 209.041 - "Custody" defined.
NRS 209.051 - "Department" defined.
NRS 209.061 - "Director" defined.
NRS 209.065 - "Facility" defined.
NRS 209.071 - "Institution" defined.
NRS 209.075 - "Manager" defined.
NRS 209.077 - "Medical Director" defined.
NRS 209.081 - "Offender" defined.
NRS 209.083 - "Private facility or institution" defined.
NRS 209.085 - "Warden" defined.
NRS 209.101 - Department created; Board of State Prison Commissioners.
NRS 209.111 - Powers and duties of Board.
NRS 209.131 - Director of Department: Duties.
NRS 209.1315 - Director of Department: Training of correctional staff.
NRS 209.132 - Director of Department: Authority to delegate powers, duties or functions.
NRS 209.136 - Director of Department: Notification of Legislature regarding certain matters.
NRS 209.141 - Agreements with governmental agencies and private organizations.
NRS 209.151 - Deputy directors: Appointment; duties; other employment prohibited.
NRS 209.153 - Deputy Director for Industrial Programs: Retirement benefits.
NRS 209.161 - Wardens of institutions: Appointment; duties.
NRS 209.189 - Fund for Prison Industries.
NRS 209.192 - Fund for New Construction of Facilities for Prison Industries.
NRS 209.194 - Silver State Industries Endowment Fund.
NRS 209.225 - Investment and disbursement of interest and income of Offenders’ Store Fund.
NRS 209.239 - Regulation of personal property of offenders.
NRS 209.246 - Deductions from individual account of offender.
NRS 209.2473 - Regulations regarding deductions.
NRS 209.248 - Account for disbursements to offenders: Establishment; use; reimbursement.
NRS 209.249 - Package program for offenders: Establishment; limitations.
NRS 209.251 - Books and papers kept by Board or Director: Inspection; delivery to successors.
NRS 209.254 - Department to provide list of persons eligible for parole.
NRS 209.261 - Transportation of offender to appropriate institution or facility.
NRS 209.273 - Unnecessary expense not allowed; offenders transported collectively.
NRS 209.274 - Transportation of offender to appear before court.
NRS 209.281 - Temporary interstate transportation.
NRS 209.293 - Transfer of offender to correctional institution of another state.
NRS 209.301 - Transfer of minors to state facility for detention of children.
NRS 209.321 - Transfer of offender for psychiatric observation or treatment.
NRS 209.331 - Medical evaluation or treatment of offender outside institution or facility.
NRS 209.352 - Director may establish system for offender management.
NRS 209.356 - Director to establish program of regimental discipline.
NRS 209.361 - Director to adopt regulations and penalties for violations.
NRS 209.371 - Corporal punishment and inhumane treatment prohibited.
NRS 209.3815 - Autopsy of offenders.
NRS 209.387 - Legislative findings and declarations regarding programs for education of offenders.
NRS 209.393 - Regulations regarding literacy of offenders.
NRS 209.401 - Director may establish facilities for offenders to live in community.
NRS 209.417 - Offenders not to have access to telecommunications devices; exceptions.
NRS 209.423 - Visits and correspondence between offenders and others.
NRS 209.42305 - Prisoner contact with child of prisoner; use of equipment for videoconference.
NRS 209.42315 - "Co-occurring disorder" defined.
NRS 209.4232 - "Division" defined.
NRS 209.4233 - "Program of aftercare" defined.
NRS 209.4234 - "Substance use disorder" defined.
NRS 209.4235 - "Therapeutic community" defined.
NRS 209.4238 - Programs of aftercare.
NRS 209.424 - Offenders excluded from participation.
NRS 209.4242 - Director may contract with qualified persons.
NRS 209.4244 - Report by Director to Legislature.
NRS 209.427 - Assignment of offender to program; withdrawal of offender from program.
NRS 209.4299 - Submission of report concerning probationers participating in program.
NRS 209.433 - Credits for offender sentenced on or before June 30, 1969.
NRS 209.4465 - Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 17, 1997.
NRS 209.449 - Credits for completion of vocational education and training or other program.
NRS 209.4495 - Limitation on amount of credit offender may earn.
NRS 209.451 - Forfeiture and restoration of credits.
NRS 209.453 - Expedited resolution of challenge to computation of time served.
NRS 209.457 - Program for operating conservation camps.
NRS 209.462 - Director to provide secure facility for production of license plates.
NRS 209.471 - Offender may be allowed to participate in program beneficial to community.
NRS 209.481 - Assignment of offender to institution or facility of minimum security.
NRS 209.4815 - Procedure for emergency purchase of supplies, materials or equipment.
NRS 209.4827 - Centers to house offenders.
NRS 209.4829 - Assignment of offender to center.
NRS 209.4831 - Deduction from wages of offender for living expenses.
NRS 209.4841 - Distribution of earnings of offender.
NRS 209.4843 - Termination of payments of restitution.
NRS 209.4873 - "Correctional program" defined.
NRS 209.4874 - "Division" defined.
NRS 209.4877 - "Judicial program" defined.
NRS 209.488 - "Reentry court" defined.
NRS 209.4883 - Judicial program: Establishment; assignment of offenders; supervision of offenders.
NRS 209.4887 - Correctional program: Establishment; assignment of offenders; restitution.
NRS 209.492 - Status while participating in work or educational release program or other assignment.
NRS 209.501 - Temporary furloughs.
NRS 209.521 - Notification of victim of escape or release of offender.