As used in this chapter and chapter 558, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall mean:

1. (1) "Administrative segregation unit", a cell for the segregation of offenders from the general population of a facility for relatively extensive periods of time;
2. (2) "Board", the board of probation and parole;
3. (3) "Chief administrative officer", the institutional head of any correctional facility or his designee;
4. (4) "Correctional center", any premises or institution where incarceration, evaluation, care, treatment, or rehabilitation is provided to persons who are under the department's authority;
5. (5) "Department", the department of corrections of the state of Missouri;
6. (6) "Director", the director of the department of corrections or his designee;
7. (7) "Disciplinary segregation", a cell for the segregation of offenders from the general population of a correctional center because the offender has been found to have committed a violation of a division or facility rule and other available means are inadequate to regulate the offender's behavior;
8. (8) "Division", a statutorily created agency within the department or an agency created by the departmental organizational plan;
9. (9) "Division director", the director of a division of the department or his designee;
10. (10) "Local volunteer community board", a board of qualified local community volunteers selected by the court for the purpose of working in partnership with the court and the department of corrections in a reparative probation program;
11. (11) "Nonviolent offender", any offender who is convicted of a crime other than murder in the first or second degree, involuntary manslaughter, kidnapping, forcible rape, forcible sodomy, robbery in the first degree or assault in the first degree;
12. (12) "Offender", a person under supervision or an inmate in the custody of the department;
13. (13) "Probation", a procedure under which a defendant found guilty of a crime upon verdict or plea is released by the court without imprisonment, subject to conditions imposed by the court and subject to the supervision of the board;
14. (14) "Volunteer", any person who, of his own free will, performs any assigned duties for the department or its divisions with no monetary or material compensation.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 2, A.L. 1984 S.B. 611, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1994 S.B. 763, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424, A.L. 1997 H.B. 823 merged with S.B. 430)

Effective 7-14-97 (H.B. 823); 8-28-97 (S.B. 430)