Oklahoma Statutes
Title 57. Prisons and Reformatories
§57-537. Canteen System Board of Directors - Canteen system operations.

A. There shall be established a Canteen System Board of Directors for all canteen system services operated within the Department of Corrections. The members of the Canteen System Board shall be appointed by the Director of the Department of Corrections. All canteen system operations shall be under the control of the Canteen System Board and shall operate pursuant to written guidelines established by the Board. The overall canteen operation composed of all correctional facility canteen operations, inmate telephone systems and inmate electronic mail systems shall be collectively called the Canteen System and such system shall be required to be self-supporting from sales receipts.

B. Each correctional facility may have a canteen system operation. Each facility canteen system when established shall require the warden of such facility or a designee to oversee the day-to-day canteen system operations according to the guidelines set by the Canteen System Board. The Chief Financial Officer of the Department shall act as custodian of all canteen system funds and be responsible for all expenditures from the canteen system accounts. The Chief Financial Officer shall make daily deposits of all sales receipts in the canteen system accounts. Canteen system profits generated by items or services for resale shall be identified monthly by the Chief Financial Officer and transferred periodically from the canteen system account to the Department of Corrections Inmate and Employee Welfare and Canteen System Support Revolving Fund. All disbursements made from the canteen system account shall be by voucher approved by the Chief Financial Officer and shall be payable through the Office of the State Treasurer. Documentation of each disbursement shall be kept on file by the Department. Canteen system records may be disposed of in accordance with the records disposition schedule approved by the Archives and Records Commission. The Department shall notify the State Records Administrator thirty (30) days in advance of its intent to dispose of any canteen records. The Department shall follow accounting procedures in accordance with state fiscal accounting procedures in administering canteen system funds. All profits from the canteen system shall be used exclusively for the benefit of the inmates of the various institutions and personnel of the Department of Corrections and support of canteen system operations as determined by the Canteen System Board of Directors pursuant to subsection A of this section.
C. Inmates may work in a correctional facility canteen and shall receive reimbursement for such work through the institution incentive pay program.
D. Any audit of canteen system operations and accounts conducted by the State Auditor and Inspector shall be provided to the warden of the concerned institution.
E. Merchandise and services to be purchased for resale or distribution through the canteen system, inmate telephone equipment or services, and inmate electronic mail equipment and services shall be purchased by voucher drawn against canteen system accounts and all such purchases of goods and services shall be exempted from the provisions of The Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act. All revenues from canteen operations, inmate telephone system services and inmate electronic mail system operations shall be used exclusively for the benefit of the inmates of the various institutions and personnel of the Department of Corrections as determined by the Canteen System Board of Directors.
Added by Laws 1975, c. 325, § 20, emerg. eff. June 12, 1975. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 30, § 91, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979; Laws 1980, c. 210, § 9, eff. Oct. 1, 1980; Laws 1981, c. 89, § 1, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981; Laws 1981, c. 272, § 10, eff. July 1, 1981; Laws 1983, c. 117, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1985, c. 319, § 9, operative Oct. 1, 1985; Laws 1986, c. 314, § 8, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 205, § 26, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1998, c. 282, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1998; Laws 2008, c. 171, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2009, c. 188, § 1; Laws 2010, c. 413, § 14, eff. July 1, 2010.

Structure Oklahoma Statutes

Oklahoma Statutes

Title 57. Prisons and Reformatories

§57-1. County commissioners - Inspection of jails.

§57-2. Prohibition against intoxicating beverages in jails.

§57-4. Jails to be kept clean - Care of prisoners.

§57-4.1. Administering medications.

§57-4.2. Restraints on pregnant inmates – Access to certain persons during delivery.

§57-5. Bible furnished for each prisoner - Ministers to have access.

§57-6. Courts may sentence to hard labor.

§57-7. Marshal shall superintend labor in towns.

§57-9. Penalty for cruelty to prisoners.

§57-10. Protection from annoyance - Penalty for annoying prisoners.

§57-13. Escape when committed for capital offenses a felony.

§57-14. Removal of prisoners in case of fire.

§57-15. When a poor convict is held for fine and costs.

§57-16. Jails of state to receive federal prisoners.

§57-16a. Receiving and holding United States prisoners – Immigration detainer requests.

§57-17. United States shall be liable for expenses.

§57-18. Calendar of United States prisoners.

§57-19. Juvenile prisoners.

§57-20. Credit on fine and costs - Credit for efficient work and good behavior.

§57-21. Contraband in jails or penal institutions - Penalties.

§57-22. Receiving compensation for providing goods or services for benefit of inmate – Penalties.

§57-31. Corporal punishment prohibited.

§57-32. Violation a misdemeanor.

§57-37. Facilities reaching maximum capacity.

§57-38. Jail reimbursement rate - Reimbursement for medical expenses.

§57-38.1. Reimbursement for disciplinary incarceration under community sentencing.

§57-38.2. Reimbursement for incarceration ordered as an intermediate sanction.

§57-38.3. Reimbursement and payment for medical care and treatment.

§57-41. Establishment or access to jail in another county - Private prison contractors.

§57-42. Common jails used as prisons, when.

§57-47. Sheriff to have charge of the jail.

§57-48. Jail register.

§57-49. Sheriff shall furnish court with copy of register or computer record.

§57-51. Duty of county board - Medical officer - Reports.

§57-51.1. Persons with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) - Violation of § 1192.1 of Title 21 - Transfer to Department of Corrections for extended medical care.

§57-52. Sheriff to provide board, medical care and necessities - Compensation - Purchases.

§57-53. Monthly inspections.

§57-54. Person authorized to act as jailer - Civilian employees - Oath - Liability - Jails operated by private prison contractors.

§57-55. Penalty for sheriff's neglect.

§57-56. Penalty for breaking jail.

§57-57. Separate rooms for different classes and sexes – Classifying prisoners - Double celling barrack-style living space - Construction contracts with private contractors.

§57-58. Employment of prisoners.

§57-58.1. Public property maintenance and jail work details.

§57-58.2. Order of jail administrator for prisoner labor - Supply of guards.

§57-58.3. Sentence and fine or cost credits for prisoner labor.

§57-59. Grand juries shall examine prisons.

§57-60. Sheriff to be paid for keeping prisoners.

§57-61. Sheriff to keep copy of order of confinement.

§57-62. Commitments and discharges to be filed.

§57-63. Box containing commitments and discharges to be delivered to successor.

§57-64. County without prison.

§57-65. Credit for good behavior and blood donations - Duty of sheriff.

§57-68. Jail facilities operated by private prison contractor - Application of state law.

§57-69. Meals for county jail and correctional facilities personnel.

§57-95. Delivery of sentenced person by sheriff or detention center - Receipts.

§57-96. Foreign convicted offenders - Transfer or exchange.

§57-97. Department of Corrections Offender Transport Revolving Fund.

§57-115. Reentry program for offenders needing structured release.

§57-138. Earned credits - Eligibility.

§57-138.1. Meritorious acts - Credit.

§57-211. Occupational rosters.

§57-212. Requisition of service of prisoners - Direction to furnish prisoner personnel.

§57-213. Sending qualified prisoners to requisitioning institution -Limited clemency - Receipts - Return of prisoners.

§57-214. Immunity from civil suits.

§57-214.1. High-voltage electric security fence system - Liability of electricity provider and parts suppliers.

§57-215. Short title.

§57-216. Definitions.

§57-217. Lists of prisoners eligible for public work projects.

§57-218. Expense of prisoners.

§57-219. Jurisdiction.

§57-220. Civil rights not restored.

§57-221. Violation of rules and regulations.

§57-222. Use of prison labor on private property prohibited - Exceptions - Definitions - Purpose of work performed.

§57-224. Service or maintenance work for other state, county, municipality or federal agency.

§57-226. Disposition of monies received for providing primary health care and outpatient services for prisoners in county jails.

§57-227. Application - Exemption from Workers' Compensation Act - Liability for injuries.

§57-228. Tort immunity - Waiver - Insurance.

§57-332. Pardons and paroles - Power of Governor.

§57-332.1. Professional investigators, clerical and administrative personnel.

§57-332.1A. Training for the members of the Pardon and Parole Board.

§57-332.1B. Pardon and Parole Board – Member eligibility.

§57-332.2. Meetings of Pardon and Parole Board – Consideration of commutation - Notice of dockets and recommendations.

§57-332.4. Selection of Chairman - Compensation and expenses.

§57-332.4a. Pardon and Parole Board - Reimbursements.

§57-332.6. Administration of oaths.

§57-332.7. Consideration for parole.

§57-332.7a. Crimes related to controlled dangerous substances - Reporting procedures - Consideration by Board.

§57-332.8. Conditions for parole - Employment and residence assistance.

§57-332.15. Board members not to represent inmates - Voting prohibited in certain cases.

§57-332.16. Time for Governor to act on parole recommendation – Exceptions.

§57-332.18. Placement on Board docket for medical reason.

§57-332.19. Action by Governor on application for pardon.

§57-332.20. Two-stage parole consideration process - Tracking effects - Data collection.

§57-332.21. Power of Board to parole certain prisoners.

§57-347. Out-of-state parolee supervision - Compacts with other states.

§57-348. Partial invalidity.

§57-349. Short title.

§57-349.1. Notification to sending state as to need for retaking or reincarceration - Hearing - Reports - Detention prior to hearing.

§57-349.2. Hearing officer.

§57-349.3. Rights of parolee or probationer.

§57-349.4. Hearings held in other states - Effect.

§57-350. Deduction from sentence of time spent on parole - Revocation of parole.

§57-353.1. Minimum and maximum terms of confinement – Assessment of terms by jury.

§57-354. Continuing study of prisoner by pardon and parole board - Hearings - Recommendations.

§57-355. Rules and regulations.

§57-357. Professional investigators - Qualifications - Waiver - Attorneys.

§57-358. Office space for interviewers - Access to inmate records.

§57-359. Certain employees to become classified and subject to Merit System - Exceptions - Salary increases.

§57-360. Notification of pardon or parole.

§57-360.1. Notice to victim notification service provider of projected date of release.

§57-365. Specialized parole.

§57-400. Acute psychiatric care units.

§57-501. Citation.

§57-502. Definitions

§57-503. Board - Creation - Members - Terms - Removal.

§57-504. Board - Officers - Rules and regulations - Travel expenses - Powers and duties.

§57-504.7. Kate Barnard Community Corrections Center - Female inmates.

§57-505. Department - Creation - Divisions.

§57-506. Director - Qualifications - Appointment – Removal.

§57-507. Director - Status - Powers and duties.

§57-508. Divisions - Deputy Directors - Compensation - Qualifications of deputy directors.

§57-508.1. Legal Division.

§57-508.3. Construction Division.

§57-508.4. Investigations Division.

§57-509. Penal institutions.

§57-509.1. Oklahoma Children's Center at Taft - Transfer to Department of Corrections.

§57-509.2. Town of Taft - Patrols and law enforcement.

§57-509.3. Western State Psychiatric Center at Fort Supply - Maintenance and management of certain buildings.

§57-509.4. Special treatment program for inmates with severe psychiatric problems.

§57-509.5. Inmate work centers in Indian Country Land - Civil and criminal jurisdiction - Expiration, cancellation or termination of agreement.

§57-509.6. Special unit for elderly, disabled and sick inmates.

§57-510. Penal institutions — Director's specific powers and duties.

§57-510.1. Time away from correctional facility for committed offender - Purposes.

§57-510.5. Oklahoma Inmate Literacy Act - Short title.

§57-510.6. Intent of Legislature - Educational opportunities for inmates.

§57-510.6a. Correctional teachers or vocational instructors - Salary and fringe benefits - Nonteaching administrators - Pay raises.

§57-510.7. High school equivalency development – Duties of Department of Corrections.

§57-510.8. Priority of placement - Refusal to participate - Waiver of educational requirements.

§57-510.8a. Pilot programs on phonetics and reading.

§57-510.8b. Pilot diversion program.

§57-510.8c. Criminal Justice Pay for Success Revolving Fund.

§57-510.9. Electronic Monitoring Program.

§57-510.10. Electronic monitoring of inmates.

§57-510A. Department of Corrections Offender Management System Revolving Fund.

§57-512. Supervision of inmates paroled from state institutions - Conditions for release - Violations.

§57-512.1. Credits for compliance with terms and conditions of parole supervision.

§57-513. Discharged prisoners - Clothing, transportation and funds.

§57-513.1. Petty cash fund.

§57-513.2. Notification of completion of sentence or discharge of inmate from custody.

§57-513.2a. Failure to give notification - Improper disclosure - Immunity from liability.

§57-513.3. Assistance to inmates for obtaining state-issued identification cards and employment-related documents.

§57-515. Probation-parole officers.

§57-515a. Felony probation supervision.

§57-516. Parole violators.

§57-517. Probation violators.

§57-521. Commitment to custody of Department - Assignment and classification to correctional facility - Pre-release reintegration services - Annual report.

§57-521.1. Transformational Justice Act - Reentry Policy Council - Travel expenses.

§57-521.2. Transformational Justice Act - Transformational Justice Interagency Task Force - Revolving funds.

§57-525. Offices and residences for wardens.

§57-528. Employees - Duties and compensation.

§57-528.1. Additional sick leave benefits.

§57-528.2. Limitations on additional sick leave benefits.

§57-528.3. Repair and replacement of employee's personal property.

§57-528.4. On-the-job safety and performance programs - Awards.

§57-528.5. Reimbursement for cost of commercial driver license.

§57-528.6. Critical incidents - Paid administrative leave.

§57-528.7. Hourly wage increase for Department personnel.

§57-528.8. Hourly wage increase for Department personnel at certain facilities.

§57-529. Medical research program - Expenses.

§57-530. Receiving center for new prisoners.

§57-530.1. Assessment and reception of inmates - Duties of Department of Corrections.

§57-530.2. Designating persons to receive personal property and remains of deceased inmate.

§57-530.3. Aliens in custody of Department of Corrections - Identification - Assistance to the United States Department of Justice.

§57-530.4. Oklahoma Criminal Illegal Alien Rapid Repatriation Act of 2009.

§57-530.5. Inmate rehabilitation case plans.

§57-531. Disposition of monies derived from inmate work release program - Transfer of funds in Work Release Centers Revolving Fund.

§57-533. Centralized food buying - Management of agricultural and livestock services.

§57-535. Filling of a designated grade in next lower grade.

§57-537. Canteen System Board of Directors - Canteen system operations.

§57-537.1. Department of Corrections Inmate and Employee Welfare and Canteen System Support Revolving Fund.

§57-538. Vocational-technical education policies and programs.

§57-539. Administrative actions.

§57-539.1. Methods for selection of vocational or vocational-technical programs offered to inmates.

§57-541. Industries Revolving Fund.

§57-543. Work release centers - Establishment and operation.

§57-543.1. Employment of inmates during strikes and labor disputes.

§57-545. Employment of inmates - Claims against inmates.

§57-549. Powers and duties of State Board of Corrections.

§57-549.1. Purchase of prison industries goods and services.

§57-549.2. Oklahoma Prison Industry Marketing Development Advisory Task Force.

§57-550. Designation of persons to act on behalf of Board of Corrections.

§57-551. Transfer of personnel spaces and funds.

§57-552. Referral of inmates to Pardon and Parole Board.

§57-555. Purchase of utility easements.

§57-556. Lease of residences near penal institutions.

§57-557. Department of Corrections Revolving Fund.

§57-557.2. Oklahoma Community Sentencing Revolving Fund.

§57-559. Disposition of monies received for prison rodeos and other special events - Transfer of funds in Department of Corrections Rodeo and Special Events Revolving Fund.

§57-560. Architectural contracts - Restrictions.

§57-561. Incarceration, supervision and treatment at other than department facilities - Services offered - Standards - Private prison contractors.

§57-561.1. Private prison contractors - Requests for proposals or negotiated contracts.

§57-561.2. Siting of correctional facilities - Contractor selection process.

§57-561.3. Private prison operators to furnish medical care.

§57-561.4. Private Prison and Halfway House Capacity Development Revolving Fund.

§57-561.5. Distributions from Private Prison and Halfway House Capacity Development Revolving Fund.

§57-562. Correctional Officer Cadets.

§57-563. Correctional facilities - Creation or construction - Approval of Legislature - Inmate work centers - Location.

§57-563.1. Location of private prison facilities - Restrictions.

§57-563.2. Private prison facilities for inmates.

§57-563.3. Private prison contractors not having contract with Department of Corrections which house federal inmates or inmates of another state.

§57-563.4. Transitional living facility – Location — Notification - Definition.

§57-564. Inmates to exhaust administrative remedies.

§57-564.1. Disciplinary proceedings – Judicial review – Requirements – Procedures.

§57-565. Affidavit in forma pauperis - Considering inmates deposited funds.

§57-566. Dismissal of inmate's action - Definitions - Sanctions for frivolous or malicious claims - Judgment - Liability for costs and fees.

§57-566.1. Payments and distributions from damage awards.

§57-566.2. Frivolous, malicious actions or failure to state claim upon which relief could be granted – Prepayment of fees.

§57-566.3. Application for in forma pauperis - Partial payment of court costs - Affidavit of inability to pay - Dismissal - Grievance procedures.

§57-566.4. Certain actions prohibited - Frivolous or malicious claims - Public records - Default judgment - Venue - Administrative fees - Judgments - Special report prior to answer - Appeals.

§57-566.5. Exhaustion of administrative and statutory remedies.

§57-566.6. Claims in form of lien arising from prosecution, incarceration, or supervision of inmate.

§57-568. Hospice Care and Certified Nurse Assistant training program.

§57-571. Definitions.

§57-581. Short title - Legislative findings.

§57-582. Persons and crimes to which act applies.

§57-582.1. Determination of offender's numeric risk level prior to release.

§57-582.2. Forwarding of registration information and level assignment - Suspended sentences or probation - Duties of court.

§57-582.4. Verification of numeric risk level by Department.

§57-582.5. Sex offender level assignment committee – Requirements to override or increase level assignment – Release of records.

§57-583. Registration - Time limits - Duration - Petition for release from registration requirement - Information to be provided to offender.

§57-584. Registration - Notice of change in address, employment, or student enrollment status - Notice of and access to registries - Habitual or aggravated sex offender designation - Immunity.

§57-585. Notifying offenders of obligation to register.

§57-586. False or misleading registration information.

§57-587. Penalty.

§57-589. Registered offenders prohibited from certain employment - Penalties - Civil damages.

§57-590. Residency restriction - Penalty.

§57-590.1. Individual dwelling residency restrictions - Two or more sex offenders – Housing of registered sex offenders.

§57-590.2. Individual petition to remove requirement to register as sex offender.

§57-591. Short title.

§57-592. Definition of local law enforcement authority.

§57-593. Persons to whom act applies - Crimes to be registered under act - Judge's determination.

§57-594. Registration requirements – Duty of local law enforcement authority to inform offender of requirements.

§57-595. Form – Information required – Address verification – Notification of address change – Notification if address not verified – Transmission and availability of data – DNA testing – Habitual violent crime offender registration.

§57-596. Immunity from civil liability.

§57-597. Duties of persons in charge of correctional institutions and judges, Department of Public Safety and Department of Corrections – Notification – Rules – Coordination with surrounding states.

§57-598. Provision of false or misleading information.

§57-599. Violation - Penalties.

§57-599.1. Access to registries - Policies, procedures, forms and data.

§57-601. Short title.

§57-602. Authorization to execute compact - Text.

§57-612. Persons convicted of driving under influence of alcohol or other intoxicant or controlled dangerous substance - Processing, classification and assignment.

§57-613. Central Region Probation and Parole offices - Relocation - Purchase or lease - Purchase of building.

§57-614. Faith-based programs - Legislative findings and intent - Duties of Department of Corrections and private correctional facilities.

§57-623. On-site primary medical treatment programs.

§57-627. Medical and surgical inpatient and outpatient care - Contracts - Emergencies - Security - Costs.

§57-628. Intermediate revocation facilities.

§57-629. Sex offender stand-alone long-term care facility.

§57-631. County Community Safety Investment Fund

§57-632. Savings and averted costs from implementation of the Oklahoma Smart Justice Reform Act.

§57-633. Compliance.