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Chapter 217

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 217

Department of Corrections

217.010Definitions 217.015Divisions created — sections authorized — purpose of department — women offender program established, purpose — advisory committee established, membership, purpose 217.020Department's powers and duties 217.021Community behavioral health program, purpose — department duties 217.022Prison impact statements, required, when 217.025Director of department, appointment, qualifications, bond, duties 217.030Directors of divisions, appointment — appointment of general personnel 217.035Director's powers and duties — deputy director, appointment, compensation, powers in absence or incapacity of director 217.040Rulemaking authority 217.043United States government, contract powers of department 217.045Federal funds, authority to receive — applications for funds, procedure 217.050Department to sue in name of director — interest authorized 217.055Volunteer program requirements — coverage as unpaid employees by legal expense fund and workers' compensation — use of state vehicles — expenses 217.070State auditor to have access to all records, confidentiality 217.075Offender records, public records, exceptions — inspection of, when — medical records, available, when — copies admissible as evidence — violations, penalty 217.080Department and division to maintain central office in Jefferson City 217.090Lease of buildings on grounds of correctional centers, when — compatibility with services of department required — procedure — bids required — cost — terms of lease — how executed 217.092Leased prison space, deposit of payments 217.095Condemnation powers, when, procedure 217.100Director may enter into agreement for services to department by other state departments or agencies 217.110Workers' compensation to cover all employees of the department 217.115Officers and employees, restrictions on business connections — conversion of department property prohibited, exception — violations, grounds for dismissal 217.120Bribery or receipt of gifts from prisoners by officers or employees of department, penalty — duty to report, failure, effect — director to investigate and report, when 217.125Offenders, labor restrictions 217.128Employee held hostage eligible for paid leave of absence 217.130Living quarters furnished to employees, fees 217.135Food furnished in correctional center, employees to purchase, exception 217.137Prisoner transfers by United States treaty with foreign governments — governor's powers — director's duties 217.138Construction of correctional centers by private entities for state and political subdivisions — housing of state's offenders in city or county jails, costs 217.139Sexual offenders of children, pilot treatment program — costs, how paid — department's duties — annual report 217.141Electrified security fence systems authorized 217.147Sentencing and corrections oversight commission, members, terms, duties, report, expiration date 217.151Restraints, use of on pregnant offenders — definitions — extraordinary circumstances — requirements 217.160Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel — qualifications — to be full-time employee 217.165Chief administrative officers of each correctional center, appointment 217.170Chief administrative officers, duties 217.175Rules and regulations, division director's authority to promulgate 217.180Annual report of division, contents 217.185Reports by chief administrative officers, monthly, to division director, contents 217.195Canteen to be established — inmate canteen fund established, purpose, moneys, how spent 217.197Offender personal property, allowed when — unauthorized property, disposition of 217.199Feminine hygiene products, available at no cost to female offenders 217.210Capacity of correctional centers, how determined — emergency assignment 217.220Death sentence commutation, admittance to correctional center 217.225Federal prisoners, admittance — escapees, how punished — neglect of federal prisoners, liability 217.230Health care services for correctional centers 217.235Chaplain, appointment or arrangement for religious services 217.240Food and clothing of offenders — food deprivation not to be used as punishment 217.245Medical excuse from participation in required activities, procedure 217.250Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement will endanger or shorten life — certification to parole board, report to governor, procedure 217.255Compensation of offenders for labor, academic or vocational classes — hours of work, exceptions — payment to state or crime victims' compensation fund, when 217.260Earnings of offender, paid when — how used, payment to families, when — department powers 217.262Frivolous lawsuits, false testimony, abuse of judicial system by offender — sanctions 217.265Visitors, regulation of — clergymen's privileges 217.270Parole board to have access to offenders and records, when 217.275Carrying letters or writings without authorization prohibited, penalty 217.280Firearms may be carried by designated employees — powers of arrest and apprehension 217.285Clothing, money, transportation, return of personal property to discharged or paroled prisoners — exception 217.300Reception and diagnostic centers for classification of prisoners to be established 217.305Delivery of prisoners to correctional centers with certain required information 217.310Examination of new prisoners — identification data recorded 217.315System of identification, department to establish 217.320Identification systems, officers not liable for acts done in enforcing law 217.325Identification system mandatory 217.330Department to conduct tests — assignment of offender 217.335Classification teams, established — appointment, qualifications, duties 217.337Schedule of activities, work, and program, adherence to, exemption 217.343Emancipation of certain juvenile offenders for certain purposes 217.345First offenders and offenders eighteen or younger — mandatory program — physical separation of offenders less than eighteen years of age — rules — contract for provision of services — evaluation process 217.350Transfer of offender, when 217.355Education programs established, what included, enrollment required, when 217.361Risk and need assessment tools — department procedures, duties 217.362Program for offenders with substance abuse addiction — eligibility, disposition, placement — completion, effect 217.364Offenders under treatment program, placement, rules — eligibility — use, purpose, availability — failure to complete 217.365Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband 217.370Discipline and grievance procedures established — chief administrative officer to abide by 217.375Administrative segregation, grounds for — review hearing required — records to be kept — access to medical personnel 217.380Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required — disciplinary segregation, hearing, time period 217.385Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty 217.390Escape, defined — penalty 217.395Escapee's apprehension — reward may be offered, limitations 217.400Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty 217.405Offender abuse, penalty — employees not to use physical force, exception 217.410Abuse of offender, duty to report, penalty — confidentiality of report, immunity from liability — harassment prohibited 217.412Autopsy required, when — reports to be maintained by department 217.415Disqualification from holding position in correctional facility, when 217.420Surgery, general anesthetic not authorized for offender without consent or court order, exceptions, emergencies — treatment against religious beliefs, when allowed 217.425Furlough of prisoners, when — time limitations, exceptions — waiver required, when — notice requirements 217.430Residential treatment centers and community based sanctions — assignment of offenders — contracts to establish, provisions, locations — payments, how made — inmates fund established, use — regulation of inmates 217.435Work or educational release program 217.437Work by offenders, not employment, when — benefitting entity immune from suit, exceptions 217.439Photograph of offender to be taken prior to release, when — provided to victim upon request 217.440Program of restorative justice, requirements — termination date for program 217.441Domestic phone calls, limit on total amount of costs charged to an offender 217.450Offender may request final disposition of pending indictment, information or complaint, how requested — director to notify offender of pending actions, failure to notify, effect 217.455Director of division of adult institutions to transmit information and request 217.460Trial to be held, when — failure, effect 217.465Escape by offender, effect of 217.470Transportation expenses, how paid 217.475Director of division of adult institutions to inform prisoner of the law in writing 217.480Uniformity of construction 217.485Title of the law 217.490Agreement on detainers adopted — compact text 217.495Appropriate court defined 217.500Enforcement and cooperation required of whom 217.505Compact not to require application of habitual offender law 217.510Escape by offender, effect on 217.515Chief administrative officer to deliver offender, when 217.520Governor to designate administrator 217.525Director authorized to contract with United States for stated purposes 217.530Convicted offender not to be transferred to state where wanted for crime 217.535Compact adopted — text — contract must comply 217.540Powers and duties of director, delegation authorized 217.541House 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 217.542Failure to return to house arrest, felony 217.543House 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)217.550Prison industries and services program created — director to administer — approval required — report submitted to director, contents 217.555Advisory board, created, members, appointment, qualifications — duties — compensation 217.560Enterprise program diversification and purpose 217.565Director to provide plants, machinery and materials — distribution of products 217.567Director may contract with private entities for employment of inmates — leasing of correctional facility property — wages, director to set policies 217.570Sales of prison industry goods and services, procedure — open market sales, when 217.575Sales of goods or services to state or political subdivisions — promotion — price — certification of nonavailability required for state purchases, when 217.580Catalog of products furnished public officers — institutions to report estimates of needs 217.590Violations of sections 217.575 and 217.580, penalty 217.592Plasmapheresis program may be established as private enterprise on institution grounds — inmate employment, wages 217.595Working capital revolving fund created — source, uses — accounting, audit — transfer to general revenue prohibited 217.650Definitions 217.655Parole board, general duties — division duties 217.665Board members, appointment, qualifications — terms, vacancies — designation of chair and vice chair — compensation, expenses 217.670Decisions 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 217.675Handbook of rules governing conduct of parolees furnished to whom, duties of board 217.680Offices, where located — space in correctional centers to be provided for hearings and interviews 217.682Secretary to be appointed, duties 217.690Board may order release or parole — assessment, personal hearing — fee — rules — eligibility for parole, how calculated — murder, eligibility for hearing — hearing procedure — notice — special conditions — education requirements, exceptions — rulemaking authority 217.692Eligibility for parole, offenders with life sentence, when — criteria — perjury, penalty 217.695Release from custody under supervision of division of probation and parole, registration with law enforcement officials required 217.703Earned compliance credits awarded, when 217.705Probation, parole, institutional parole, officers — appointment — duties 217.710Firearms, authority to carry, department's duties, training — rulemaking procedure 217.718Alternative to revocation proceedings, period of detention, requirements 217.720Arrest of person paroled or on conditional release — report — procedure — revocation of parole or release — effect of sentence — arrest of parolee from another state 217.722Probation officers, power to arrest, when — preliminary hearing allowed, when — notice to sentencing court 217.725Board may parole prisoner held on warrant 217.730Parole time as time of imprisonment, exception — final discharge — procedure to register to vote 217.735Lifetime supervision required for certain offenders — electronic monitoring — termination at age sixty-five permitted, when — rulemaking authority 217.750Probation services provided to circuit courts, when 217.755Probation services for courts, rules authorized 217.760Probation and parole officers furnished to circuit courts, when — presentence and preparole investigations — requirements 217.762Presentence investigation, required, when — victim impact statement, prepared when, contents 217.777Community corrections program alternative for eligible offenders, purpose — operation — rules — guidelines 217.800Pardons by governor — conditions and restrictions — notice to central repository 217.805Governor may remit fine or forfeiture 217.810Interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers 217.820Exoneree defined — identification documents, department policy and procedures to assist exonerees in obtaining 217.845CARES Act moneys received by offender for COVID-19 to be used for restitution 217.850Correctional center, unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over, offense of — permissible acts — violation, penalty — signage to be posted 217.930Suspension of MO HealthNet medical assistance in lieu of termination, when 217.940Nursery program to be established, purpose — definitions 217.941Eligibility, placement, and program capacity 217.942Written agreement, contents — program policy required 217.943Termination of participation, when 217.944Child support payments, collected and deposited — monetary donations to program permitted 217.945Correctional center nursery program fund created, use of moneys 217.946Regulation and oversight by other agencies subject to department consent 217.947Sovereign immunity in effect — program not a waiver, not considered a dangerous condition