As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (a) "Board" means the State Board of Corrections;
2. (b) "Department" means the Department of Corrections of this state;
3. (c) "Institutions" means the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located at McAlester, Oklahoma; the Oklahoma State Reformatory located at Granite, Oklahoma; the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center located at Lexington, Oklahoma; the Joseph Harp Correctional Center located at Lexington, Oklahoma; the Jackie Brannon Correctional Center located at McAlester, Oklahoma; the Howard C. McLeod Correctional Center located at Farris, Oklahoma; the Mack H. Alford Correctional Center located at Stringtown, Oklahoma; the Ouachita Correctional Center located at Hodgen, Oklahoma; the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center located at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the R.B. "Dick" Conner Correctional Center located at Hominy, Oklahoma; the James Crabtree Correctional Center located at Helena, Oklahoma; the Jess Dunn Correctional Center located at Taft, Oklahoma; the John Lilley Correctional Center located at Boley, Oklahoma; the William S. Key Correctional Center located at Fort Supply, Oklahoma; the Dr. Eddie Walter Warrior Correctional Center located at Taft, Oklahoma; the Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center located at Vinita, Oklahoma; the Oklahoma City, Clara Waters and Kate Barnard Community Corrections Centers located at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the Tulsa Community Corrections Center located at Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Community Corrections Centers located at Lawton, Enid, and Muskogee; the Charles E. "Bill" Johnson Correctional Center, located east of Alva, Oklahoma; and other facilities under the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Corrections or hereafter established by the Department of Corrections;
4. (d) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Corrections;
5. (e) "Halfway house" means a private facility for the placement of inmates in a community setting for the purpose of reintegrating into the community inmates who are nearing their release dates. The term shall not include private prisons.
6. (f) "House arrest" means a program whereby persons committed to the Department of Corrections are authorized to be away from a correctional facility and are placed by the Department in a community for the purpose of reintegration of the person into society, pursuant to the provisions of Section 510.2 of this title; and
7. (g) "Private prison contractor" means:
8. (1) a nongovernmental entity or public trust which, pursuant to a contract with the Department of Corrections, operates an institution within the Department, or provides for the housing, care, and control of inmates and performs other functions related to said responsibilities within a minimum or medium security level facility not owned by the Department but operated by the contractor; or
9. (2) a nongovernmental entity or public trust which, pursuant to a contract with the United States or another state, provides for the housing, care, and control of minimum or medium security inmates in the custody of the United States or another state, and performs other functions related to said responsibilities within a facility owned or operated by the contractor.

Laws 1967, HB 566, c. 261, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1967; Amended by Laws 1973, SB 132, c. 152, § 1, emerg. eff. May 14, 1973; Amended by Laws 1980, HB 1865, c. 210, § 1, eff. October 1, 1980; Amended by Laws 1982, SB 560, c. 140, § 2, emerg. eff. April 9, 1982; Amended by Laws 1982, HB 1551, c. 346, § 9, emerg. eff. June 2, 1982; Amended by Laws 1983, HB 1074, c. 266, § 10, emerg. eff. July 1, 1983; Amended by Laws 1984, SB 368, c. 296, § 50, emerg. eff. July 1, 1984; Amended by Laws 1985, SB 65, c. 202, § 2, emerg. eff. June 28, 1985; Amended by Laws 1985, HB 1056, c. 327, § 16, emerg. eff. July 29, 1985; Amended by Laws 1986, SB 419, c. 314, § 13, emerg. eff. July 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1472, c. 80, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1987; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1133, c. 205, § 21, emerg. eff. July 1, 1987; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1080, c. 303, § 10, emerg. eff. July 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1419, c. 307, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 1991; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1267, c. 291, § 14 (repealed by Laws 1992, SB 671, c. 319, § 8, emerg. eff. May 27, 1992); Amended by Laws 1992, SB 671, c. 319, § 4, eff. September 1, 1992; Amended by Laws 1994, SB 1091, c. 277, § 1; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1762, c. 266, § 1, emerg. eff. May 25, 1995; Amended by Laws 2002, HB 2085, c. 81, § 1, eff. November 1, 2002 (repealed by Laws 2003, HB 1816, c. 3, § 45, emerg. eff. March 19, 2003).