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Section
47-5-110

Commitments to be to department and not to particular institutions or facilities; transfers of offenders; community prerelease program; conditions; immunity for commissioner of corrections; evidence-based programs for benefit of inmates

Section
47-5-110.1

Offenders to pay costs of requested transfers between facilities

Section
47-5-110.2

Persons sentenced to custody of department after January 1, 2017, can no longer be sentenced to regimented inmate discipline program

Section
47-5-111

Transportation of offenders to correctional system facilities; processing of offenders at receiving stations

Section
47-5-112

Repealed

Section
47-5-113

Offenders of the United States courts

Section
47-5-115

Offenders whose capital sentences are commuted

Section
47-5-116

Installation of "Biddle guard" on vehicle transporting prisoner

Section
47-5-117

Repealed

Section
47-5-119

Initial search of offender; disposition of money found thereon; misappropriation of offender's money

Section
47-5-120

Transfer of offender for observation, diagnosis and treatment; board of examiners established to examine condition of certain offenders

Section
47-5-121

Separation of sexes

Section
47-5-122

Agricultural production as part of disciplinary or other programs; contracts for federal subsidies

Section
47-5-123

Repealed

Section
47-5-124

Uniform designations for offenders; restrictions on possession of radios, televisions and similar electronic devices; restrictions on weight lifting programs

Section
47-5-125

Repealed

Section
47-5-126

Working of inmates

Section
47-5-127

Repealed

Section
47-5-128

Repealed

Section
47-5-129

Offenders to work certain roads; Sunflower County

Section
47-5-131

Offenders to work certain roads; Quitman County

Section
47-5-132

Housing of prisoners; "hot racking," tents and "double bunking."

Section
47-5-133

Drainage of correctional system property; restriction on working of offenders off correctional system property

Section
47-5-134

Offenders to work for Habitat for Humanity or the Fuller Center for Housing, Inc

Section
47-5-135

and 47-5-136. Repealed

Section
47-5-137

Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception

Section
47-5-138

Earned time allowances; earned-release supervision; promulgations of rules and regulations; forfeiture generally; release of offender; phase-out of earned time release

Section
47-5-138.1

Trusties authorized to accumulate additional earned time; certain offenders in trusty status ineligible for time allowance

Section
47-5-139

Certain inmates ineligible for earned time allowance; commutation to be based on total term of sentences; forfeiture of earned time in event of escape

Section
47-5-140

Earned time handbook

Section
47-5-141

Repealed

Section
47-5-142

Meritorious earned time

Section
47-5-143

and 47-5-145. Repealed

Section
47-5-147

Governor may authorize payment of reward for apprehension of escaped offender

Section
47-5-149

United States offenders subject to the laws of the state

Section
47-5-151

Death of prisoner; investigations, inquests, and autopsies; fees; penalties

Section
47-5-153

Repealed

Section
47-5-155

Discharged offenders revolving fund

Section
47-5-157

Written discharge or release, clothing, Mississippi driver's license or state identification card, money and bus ticket furnished to discharged or released offender

Section
47-5-158

Inmate Welfare Fund

Sections
47-5-159 through 47-5-171

Repealed

Section
47-5-173

Granting of leave for personal reasons

Section
47-5-175

Agreements to transfer state offenders to federal facilities

Section
47-5-177

Notice requirements prior to release of offenders

Section
47-5-179

Department of Corrections to deduct nonemergency medical expenses from inmate accounts

Section
47-5-180

Appointment of commissioner to make health-care decisions for offender who lacks capacity and does not have relative available; procedure; applicability of Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act

Section
47-5-181

Conversion of community work centers to pre-release centers

Section
47-5-183

Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database