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Chapter 217 Department of Corrections

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