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Section
217.010
Definitions.
Section
217.015
Divisions created — sections authorized — purpose of department — women offender program established, purpose — advisory committee established, membership, purpose.
Section
217.020
Department's powers and duties.
Section
217.021
Community behavioral health program, purpose — department duties.
Section
217.022
Prison impact statements, required, when.
Section
217.025
Director of department, appointment, qualifications, bond, duties.
Section
217.030
Directors of divisions, appointment — appointment of general personnel.
Section
217.035
Director's powers and duties — deputy director, appointment, compensation, powers in absence or incapacity of director.
Section
217.040
Rulemaking authority.
Section
217.043
United States government, contract powers of department.
Section
217.045
Federal funds, authority to receive — applications for funds, procedure.
Section
217.050
Department to sue in name of director — interest authorized.
Section
217.055
Volunteer program requirements — coverage as unpaid employees by legal expense fund and workers' compensation — use of state vehicles — expenses.
Section
217.070
State auditor to have access to all records, confidentiality.
Section
217.075
Offender records, public records, exceptions — inspection of, when — medical records, available, when — copies admissible as evidence — violations, penalty.
Section
217.080
Department and division to maintain central office in Jefferson City.
Section
217.090
Lease of buildings on grounds of correctional centers, when — compatibility with services of department required — procedure — bids required — cost — terms of lease — how executed.
Section
217.092
Leased prison space, deposit of payments.
Section
217.095
Condemnation powers, when, procedure.
Section
217.100
Director may enter into agreement for services to department by other state departments or agencies.
Section
217.110
Workers' compensation to cover all employees of the department.
Section
217.115
Officers and employees, restrictions on business connections — conversion of department property prohibited, exception — violations, grounds for dismissal.
Section
217.120
Bribery or receipt of gifts from prisoners by officers or employees of department, penalty — duty to report, failure, effect — director to investigate and report, when.
Section
217.125
Offenders, labor restrictions.
Section
217.128
Employee held hostage eligible for paid leave of absence.
Section
217.130
Living quarters furnished to employees, fees.
Section
217.135
Food furnished in correctional center, employees to purchase, exception.
Section
217.137
Prisoner transfers by United States treaty with foreign governments — governor's powers — director's duties.
Section
217.138
Construction of correctional centers by private entities for state and political subdivisions — housing of state's offenders in city or county jails, costs.
Section
217.139
Sexual offenders of children, pilot treatment program — costs, how paid — department's duties — annual report.
Section
217.141
Electrified security fence systems authorized.
Section
217.147
Sentencing and corrections oversight commission, members, terms, duties, report, expiration date.
Section
217.151
Restraints, use of on pregnant offenders — definitions — extraordinary circumstances — requirements.
Section
217.160
Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel — qualifications — to be full-time employee.
Section
217.165
Chief administrative officers of each correctional center, appointment.
Section
217.170
Chief administrative officers, duties.
Section
217.175
Rules and regulations, division director's authority to promulgate.
Section
217.180
Annual report of division, contents.
Section
217.185
Reports by chief administrative officers, monthly, to division director, contents.
Section
217.195
Canteen to be established — inmate canteen fund established, purpose, moneys, how spent.
Section
217.197
Offender personal property, allowed when — unauthorized property, disposition of.
Section
217.199
Feminine hygiene products, available at no cost to female offenders.
Section
217.210
Capacity of correctional centers, how determined — emergency assignment.
Section
217.220
Death sentence commutation, admittance to correctional center.
Section
217.225
Federal prisoners, admittance — escapees, how punished — neglect of federal prisoners, liability.
Section
217.230
Health care services for correctional centers.
Section
217.235
Chaplain, appointment or arrangement for religious services.
Section
217.240
Food and clothing of offenders — food deprivation not to be used as punishment.
Section
217.245
Medical excuse from participation in required activities, procedure.
Section
217.250
Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement will endanger or shorten life — certification to parole board, report to governor, procedure.
Section
217.255
Compensation of offenders for labor, academic or vocational classes — hours of work, exceptions — payment to state or crime victims' compensation fund, when.
Section
217.260
Earnings of offender, paid when — how used, payment to families, when — department powers.
Section
217.262
Frivolous lawsuits, false testimony, abuse of judicial system by offender — sanctions.
Section
217.265
Visitors, regulation of — clergymen's privileges.
Section
217.270
Parole board to have access to offenders and records, when.
Section
217.275
Carrying letters or writings without authorization prohibited, penalty.
Section
217.280
Firearms may be carried by designated employees — powers of arrest and apprehension.
Section
217.285
Clothing, money, transportation, return of personal property to discharged or paroled prisoners — exception.
Section
217.300
Reception and diagnostic centers for classification of prisoners to be established.
Section
217.305
Delivery of prisoners to correctional centers with certain required information.
Section
217.310
Examination of new prisoners — identification data recorded.
Section
217.315
System of identification, department to establish.
Section
217.320
Identification systems, officers not liable for acts done in enforcing law.
Section
217.325
Identification system mandatory.
Section
217.330
Department to conduct tests — assignment of offender.
Section
217.335
Classification teams, established — appointment, qualifications, duties.
Section
217.337
Schedule of activities, work, and program, adherence to, exemption.
Section
217.343
Emancipation of certain juvenile offenders for certain purposes.
Section
217.345
First offenders — mandatory program — physical separation of offenders less than eighteen years of age — rules — contract for provision of services — evaluation process.
Section
217.350
Transfer of offender, when.
Section
217.355
Education programs established, what included, enrollment required, when.
Section
217.361
Risk and need assessment tools — department procedures, duties.
Section
217.362
Program for offenders with substance abuse addiction — eligibility, disposition, placement — completion, effect.
Section
217.364
Offenders under treatment program, placement, rules — eligibility — use, purpose, availability — failure to complete.
Section
217.365
Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband.
Section
217.370
Discipline and grievance procedures established — chief administrative officer to abide by.
Section
217.375
Administrative segregation, grounds for — review hearing required — records to be kept — access to medical personnel.
Section
217.380
Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required — disciplinary segregation, hearing, time period.
Section
217.385
Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty.
Section
217.390
Escape, defined — penalty.
Section
217.395
Escapee's apprehension — reward may be offered, limitations.
Section
217.400
Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty.
Section
217.405
Offender abuse, penalty — employees not to use physical force, exception.
Section
217.410
Abuse of offender, duty to report, penalty — confidentiality of report, immunity from liability — harassment prohibited.
Section
217.412
Autopsy required, when — reports to be maintained by department.
Section
217.415
Disqualification from holding position in correctional facility, when.
Section
217.420
Surgery, general anesthetic not authorized for offender without consent or court order, exceptions, emergencies — treatment against religious beliefs, when allowed.
Section
217.425
Furlough of prisoners, when — time limitations, exceptions — waiver required, when — notice requirements.
Section
217.430
Residential treatment centers and community based sanctions — assignment of offenders — contracts to establish, provisions, locations — payments, how made — inmates fund established, use — regulation of inmates.
Section
217.435
Work or educational release program.
Section
217.437
Work by offenders, not employment, when — benefitting entity immune from suit, exceptions.
Section
217.439
Photograph of offender to be taken prior to release, when — provided to victim upon request.
Section
217.440
Program of restorative justice, requirements.
Section
217.450
Offender may request final disposition of pending indictment, information or complaint, how requested — director to notify offender of pending actions, failure to notify, effect.
Section
217.455
Director of division of adult institutions to transmit information and request.
Section
217.460
Trial to be held, when — failure, effect.
Section
217.465
Escape by offender, effect of.
Section
217.470
Transportation expenses, how paid.
Section
217.475
Director of division of adult institutions to inform prisoner of the law in writing.
Section
217.480
Uniformity of construction.
Section
217.485
Title of the law.
Section
217.490
Agreement on detainers adopted — compact text.
Section
217.495
Appropriate court defined.
Section
217.500
Enforcement and cooperation required of whom.
Section
217.505
Compact not to require application of habitual offender law.
Section
217.510
Escape by offender, effect on.
Section
217.515
Chief administrative officer to deliver offender, when.
Section
217.520
Governor to designate administrator.
Section
217.525
Director authorized to contract with United States for stated purposes.
Section
217.530
Convicted offender not to be transferred to state where wanted for crime.
Section
217.535
Compact adopted — text — contract must comply.
Section
217.540
Powers and duties of director, delegation authorized.
Section
217.541
House arrest program, department to establish and regulate — limited release, when — arrest warrant may be issued by probation or parole officer, when — offenders to fund program.
Section
217.542
Failure to return to house arrest, felony.
Section
217.543
House arrest authorized for certain prisoners — jailer to establish program — remote electronic surveillance allowed — percentage of prisoner's wage to pay cost — violation penalty — (St. Louis City).
Section
217.550
Prison industries and services program created — director to administer — approval required — report submitted to director, contents.
Section
217.555
Advisory board, created, members, appointment, qualifications — duties — compensation.
Section
217.560
Enterprise program diversification and purpose.
Section
217.565
Director to provide plants, machinery and materials — distribution of products.
Section
217.567
Director may contract with private entities for employment of inmates — leasing of correctional facility property — wages, director to set policies.
Section
217.570
Sales of prison industry goods and services, procedure — open market sales, when.
Section
217.575
Sales of goods or services to state or political subdivisions — promotion — price — certification of nonavailability required for state purchases, when.
Section
217.580
Catalog of products furnished public officers — institutions to report estimates of needs.
Section
217.590
Violations of sections 217.575 and 217.580, penalty.
Section
217.592
Plasmapheresis program may be established as private enterprise on institution grounds — inmate employment, wages.
Section
217.595
Working capital revolving fund created — source, uses — accounting, audit — transfer to general revenue prohibited.
Section
217.650
Definitions.
Section
217.655
Parole board, general duties — division duties.
Section
217.665
Board members, appointment, qualifications — terms, vacancies — designation of chair and vice chair — compensation, expenses.
Section
217.670
Decisions to be by majority vote — hearing panel, membership, duties — jurisdiction removal or appeal to board, when — decision to be final — closed meetings authorized — video conferencing.
Section
217.675
Handbook of rules governing conduct of parolees furnished to whom, duties of board.
Section
217.680
Offices, where located — space in correctional centers to be provided for hearings and interviews.
Section
217.682
Secretary to be appointed, duties.
Section
217.690
Board may order release or parole — assessment, personal hearing — fee — rules — eligibility for parole, how calculated — first degree murder, eligibility for hearing — hearing procedure — notice — special conditions — education requirements, exceptions — rulemaking authority.
Section
217.692
Eligibility for parole, offenders with life sentence, when — criteria — perjury, penalty.
Section
217.695
Release from custody under supervision of division of probation and parole, registration with law enforcement officials required.
Section
217.703
Earned compliance credits awarded, when.
Section
217.705
Probation, parole, institutional parole, officers — appointment — duties.
Section
217.710
Firearms, authority to carry, department's duties, training — rulemaking procedure.
Section
217.718
Alternative to revocation proceedings, period of detention, requirements.
Section
217.720
Arrest of person paroled or on conditional release — report — procedure — revocation of parole or release — effect of sentence — arrest of parolee from another state.
Section
217.722
Probation officers, power to arrest, when — preliminary hearing allowed, when — notice to sentencing court.
Section
217.725
Board may parole prisoner held on warrant.
Section
217.730
Parole time as time of imprisonment, exception — final discharge — procedure to register to vote.
Section
217.735
Lifetime supervision required for certain offenders — electronic monitoring — termination at age sixty-five permitted, when — rulemaking authority.
Section
217.750
Probation services provided to circuit courts, when.
Section
217.755
Probation services for courts, rules authorized.
Section
217.760
Probation and parole officers furnished to circuit courts, when — presentence and preparole investigations — requirements.
Section
217.762
Presentence investigation, required, when — victim impact statement, prepared when, contents.
Section
217.777
Community corrections program alternative for eligible offenders, purpose — operation — rules — guidelines.
Section
217.785
Postconviction drug treatment program, established, rules — required participation, completion — institutional phase — report.
Section
217.800
Pardons by governor — conditions and restrictions — notice to central repository.
Section
217.805
Governor may remit fine or forfeiture.
Section
217.810
Interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers.
Section
217.825
Citation of law.
Section
217.827
Definitions.
Section
217.829
Assets to be listed by prisoners on form under oath — failure to comply, effect — department to request assignments.
Section
217.831
Director to report to attorney general on offender's assets and cost of care — attorney general's power to investigate and seek reimbursement, when.
Section
217.833
Percent of offender's assets that may be used for reimbursement — limitation.
Section
217.835
Jurisdiction, certain circuit courts — service — hearing — support obligations of offender to be considered — court order to reimburse, when.
Section
217.837
Legal remedies authorized to protect assets of prisoner — execution against homestead of prisoner prohibited — state's claim to have priority.
Section
217.839
Attorney general's powers and duties — assistance by certain officials required.
Section
217.841
Costs of investigation, how paid — deposit of reimbursement — fund, created — state treasurer, duties.
Section
217.845
CARES Act moneys received by offender for COVID-19 to be used for restitution.
Section
217.850
Correctional center, unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over, offense of — permissible acts — violation, penalty — signage to be posted.
Section
217.930
Suspension of MO HealthNet medical assistance in lieu of termination, when.