Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections
NRS 209.457 - Program for operating conservation camps.


1. The State Forester Firewarden shall, in cooperation with the Department, establish and carry out a program for operating conservation camps in this State.
2. The program established pursuant to subsection 1:
(a) May use offenders who are committed to the custody of the Department and eligible for assignment to an institution or facility of minimum security pursuant to the provisions of NRS 209.481 and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto to perform work relating to firefighting, forestry conservation programs, public safety and other work projects, including, without limitation, day labor projects, emergency response and work projects that promote conservation of natural resources and human resources; and
(b) Must include the training necessary to prepare the staff of a conservation camp and the offenders assigned to the conservation camp to assist in firefighting and other work projects in a safe manner.
3. The State Forester Firewarden, with the approval of the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, may enter into:
(a) Contracts with any state or federal public agency, municipal corporation or any person for the performance of conservation projects, including, without limitation, conservation projects relating to forest fire protection and control, watershed management, soil conservation, vegetation management, range management and the beautification of highways; and
(b) Cooperative agreements with federal agencies, counties, county fire protection districts, cities and private landowners to carry out a program for operating conservation camps as set forth in this section.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 4)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections

NRS 209.011 - Definitions.

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 209.116 - Board to adopt regulations establishing maximum number of prisoners who may be incarcerated in private facility or institution.

NRS 209.121 - Director of Department: Appointment; qualifications; salary; other employment prohibited.

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 209.134 - Director of Department: Submission to county clerk of list of offenders released from prison or discharged from parole.

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 209.181 - Officers and employees residing at institution or facility: Charges and perquisites; notice to Legislature.

NRS 209.183 - Travel expenses authorized for certain employees at specified correctional centers and conservation camps; exceptions.

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 209.221 - Offenders’ Store Fund; statement of offender’s financial situation; criminal penalties relating to concealment of assets and provision of false or misleading financial information.

NRS 209.225 - Investment and disbursement of interest and income of Offenders’ Store Fund.

NRS 209.229 - Operation of vending machines in visitors’ areas; profits from operation to be deposited in Offenders’ Store Fund.

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

NRS 209.239 - Regulation of personal property of offenders.

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.

NRS 209.243 - Administrative claim by prisoner for loss of personal property, property damage, personal injuries or other claims; regulations.

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

NRS 209.246 - Deductions from individual account of offender.

NRS 209.247 - Deductions from individual account of offender: Limitation on deductions; order of priority.

NRS 209.2473 - Regulations regarding deductions.

NRS 209.2475 - Deductions from individual account of offender: Limitations; disposition of remaining money upon release of offender; reduction or elimination; transmittal.

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 209.2745 - Payment for transportation of offender to appear as witness in action for small claims.

NRS 209.276 - Reimbursement for transportation of witness in action by offender concerning civil rights.

NRS 209.281 - Temporary interstate transportation.

NRS 209.291 - Transfer of offenders: Within Department; to other governmental agencies; between United States and foreign country.

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 209.311 - Transfer of persons detained in local facility to institution or facility of Department for safekeeping.

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 209.341 - 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.

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

NRS 209.351 - Director to establish system of ongoing classification and evaluation for offenders and to maintain records.

NRS 209.3515 - Director may request or provide medical or mental health records of certain offenders.

NRS 209.3517 - Director may apply for determination of eligibility for Medicaid on behalf of offender.

NRS 209.352 - Director may establish system for offender management.

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

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.

NRS 209.356 - Director to establish program of regimental discipline.

NRS 209.361 - Director to adopt regulations and penalties for violations.

NRS 209.365 - Director to establish program to prevent offenders from possessing or receiving certain publications.

NRS 209.367 - Director to establish program for testing of offenders for use of alcohol and controlled substances.

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...

NRS 209.371 - Corporal punishment and inhumane treatment prohibited.

NRS 209.376 - Limitations on use of restraints on offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or recuperating from delivery.

NRS 209.381 - Diet, housing and hygiene of offenders; medical and dental services of institutions and facilities.

NRS 209.3815 - Autopsy of offenders.

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.

NRS 209.3825 - Order by court affecting conditions of confinement of prisoner; Director entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard; exception.

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.

NRS 209.387 - Legislative findings and declarations regarding programs for education of offenders.

NRS 209.389 - Board to establish programs for general education, vocational education and training and other rehabilitation.

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.

NRS 209.392 - Residential confinement: Duration; notification to victim; eligibility; violation of terms or conditions; status; restitution.

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.

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...

NRS 209.393 - Regulations regarding literacy of offenders.

NRS 209.396 - Limitations on assignment of offender to industrial or vocational school; educational requirements for offender with developmental, learning or other disability.

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 209.419 - Interception of offender’s communications by telecommunications devices: Notice; 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 209.4231 - Definitions.

NRS 209.42315 - "Co-occurring disorder" defined.

NRS 209.4232 - "Division" defined.

NRS 209.4233 - "Program of aftercare" defined.

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

NRS 209.4234 - "Substance use disorder" defined.

NRS 209.4235 - "Therapeutic community" defined.

NRS 209.4236 - Director to establish programs of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders.

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.

NRS 209.4238 - Programs of aftercare.

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.

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 209.425 - Establishment of program; program to include rehabilitation, education and counseling; assignment of wages.

NRS 209.427 - Assignment of offender to program; withdrawal of offender from program.

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.

NRS 209.4291 - Establishment of program; duties of Department; condition of participation in 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.

NRS 209.4295 - Payment of cost of supervision and treatment; performance of community service as contribution toward cost; issuance of judgment for unpaid costs.

NRS 209.4297 - Release of probationer from supervision; completion of remaining or additional period of probation; revocation of probation.

NRS 209.4299 - Submission of report concerning probationers participating in program.

NRS 209.432 - Definitions.

NRS 209.433 - Credits for offender sentenced on or before June 30, 1969.

NRS 209.443 - Credits for offender sentenced after June 30, 1969, for crime committed before July 1, 1985.

NRS 209.446 - Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 1, 1985, but before July 17, 1997.

NRS 209.4465 - Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 17, 1997.

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

NRS 209.4475 - Credits for offender on parole as of January 1, 2004, or released on parole on or after January 1, 2004.

NRS 209.4477 - Credits for offender incarcerated during state of emergency due to communicable or infectious disease.

NRS 209.448 - Credits for completion of program of treatment for an alcohol or other substance use disorder.

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 209.459 - 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.

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...

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

NRS 209.462 - Director to provide secure facility for production of license plates.

NRS 209.463 - Deductions from wages earned by offender during incarceration; limitation on deductions; priority of deductions.

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 209.4817 - Committee on Industrial Programs: Creation; members; terms of appointed members; appointment of alternate members; payment of compensation, allowances and travel expenses.

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

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 209.4837 - Agreement for assignment and distribution of wages of offender; schedule of restitution.

NRS 209.4841 - Distribution of earnings of offender.

NRS 209.4843 - Termination of payments of restitution.

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.

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 209.4886 - 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.

NRS 209.4887 - Correctional program: Establishment; assignment of offenders; restitution.

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.

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.

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

NRS 209.501 - Temporary furloughs.

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...

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

NRS 209.521 - Notification of victim of escape or release of offender.