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MS Code § 47-5-30 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-30. Commissioner of Corrections; development of five-year strategic plan for operation of state correctional system

  The Commissioner of Corrections shall develop a strategic plan for its operation of the state correctional system. The strategic plan shall cover a five-year period. The plan shall include, at a minimum, the following:   A clearly defined comprehensive statement of the mission, goals and objectives of the agency;   Performance effectiveness objectives for each facility under the jurisdiction of the department;   A description of the department's internal management system used to evaluate its performance in relation to projected levels;   Detailed plans and strategies for meeting current and future needs and achieving goals and objectives established for the state correctional system;   A detailed analysis of the use of current agency resources in meeting current needs and expected future needs, and additional resources that may be necessary to meet future needs;   An analysis of factors affecting projected prison populations including impact of juveniles on prison populations and how populations are expected to change within the period of the plan;   A plan to remove inmates from county jails.     The department shall revise the plan annually.   Upon completion of the initial plan and each revision, the department shall provide copies to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Senate Corrections Committee, the Chairman of the House Penitentiary Committee, the Legislative Budget Office, the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee, the Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration and the Legislative Reference Bureau.   The commissioner shall develop the strategic plan before September 23, 1994.
MS Code § 47-5-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-31. Reports by commissioner; inventory

 The commissioner shall monthly make to the Governor and to the State Fiscal Management Board and to the Chairmen of the Corrections Committee of the Senate and Penitentiary Committee of the House of Representatives full and complete reports of the fiscal affairs of such correctional system and of the general conditions with relation thereto. Not more than thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal year said commissioner shall give a full and complete inventory of all property of every description belonging to the correctional system, and there shall be set opposite each item the book value of same. Such inventory shall further include a statement of the fiscal affairs of such system as of the last day of the fiscal year; and a sufficient number of copies of such inventory and report shall be printed to give general publicity thereto.
MS Code § 47-5-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-33. Commissioner authorized to administer oaths, and to summon and examine witnesses

 The commissioner, in the discharge of his duties, is authorized to administer oaths, to summon and examine witnesses, and take such other steps as may be necessary to ascertain the truth of any matter about which he may have the right to inquire.
MS Code § 47-5-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-35. Auditor for correctional system

 The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) shall appoint an auditor to audit the correctional system, and provide sufficient office facilities in the Jackson office, who shall be a certified public accountant or an experienced accountant, whose duty shall be to audit all accounts of the state correctional system for the purpose of reporting to the Legislative Budget Office. He shall report whether supplies and products bought and sold are handled in accordance with law and when bought on samples and specifications whether they measure up to such samples and specifications when the goods are received. The auditor shall report on the letting of bids and shall make a determination that all bids are advertised and let in accordance with law and shall render a report on same. The auditor shall be responsible to make a periodic inventory on all goods, machinery, livestock, farm produce or any other property of the correctional system and make a report thereon to the Legislative Budget Office on such terms and conditions and as often as required by the committee. The salaries and expenses of such auditor or his employees shall be paid from funds appropriated for support of the Legislature or its committees.   Such auditor shall make, at least, a monthly report to the Legislative Budget Office and the Chairman of the Corrections Committee of the Senate and the Chairman of the Penitentiary Committee in the House of Representatives.   The auditor shall attend all the meetings of the board and shall be notified by the board of all meetings or specially called meetings. The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review shall provide the auditor with a secretary and such personnel as it deems necessary.
MS Code § 47-5-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-37. Fiscal comptroller, bookkeepers, and assistants; maintenance of modern accounting system; commissioner to sign warrants

 The commissioner shall employ a qualified fiscal comptroller who shall be a certified public accountant and who shall be charged with the responsibility of maintaining a modern accounting system which shall accurately reflect all fiscal transactions in such manner and in such form as shall be recommended by the State Fiscal Management Board. The commissioner shall employ such qualified bookkeepers and other clerical personnel as required to maintain the accounting system who shall devote their full time to their duties as employees of the correctional system. The fiscal comptroller shall make a monthly report to the Governor and Chairmen of Corrections Committee of the Senate and the Penitentiary Committee of the House of Representatives. The fiscal comptroller shall countersign all checks. The fiscal comptroller shall have sole responsibility for all purchases and the signing of all purchase orders issued by the correctional system. Such fiscal comptroller shall execute a good and sufficient bond payable to the State of Mississippi in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), conditioned for the satisfactory performance of the duties of his office, and the accurate accounting of any moneys and properties coming into his hands.   The commissioner or his designee shall sign all requisitions for issuance of warrant authorizing any disbursement of any sum or sums on account of the correctional system, and no money shall be paid out on any account of the correctional system except on a requisition for issuance of warrant signed by him or his designee.
MS Code § 47-5-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-39. Fiscal impact notes

  As used in this section, "fiscal note" means the estimated dollar cost to the state for the first year and the annual cost thereafter. The term "ten-year fiscal note" means the estimated dollar cost to the state over the ten-year period following passage or adoption of the subject of the fiscal note.   Whenever legislation is introduced in the Legislature, which would establish a new criminal offense or would amend the sentencing provisions of an existing criminal offense, the Department of Corrections shall provide a fiscal note and a ten-year fiscal note on the proposed legislation upon the request of any member of the Legislature. The fiscal note shall be published in electronic form on the Mississippi Legislature website as provided in Section 5-1-85.   State agencies and political subdivisions shall cooperate with the department in preparing fiscal notes and the ten-year fiscal notes. Such agencies and political subdivisions shall submit requested information to the department in a timely fashion.   In preparing fiscal notes and the ten-year fiscal notes, the department must accurately report to the Legislature information provided to the department by state agencies and political subdivisions.   The department may request information from nongovernmental agencies and organizations to assist in preparing the fiscal note and the ten-year fiscal note.
MS Code § 47-5-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-41. Employees' oath of office

 All employees, before entering upon their duties, shall take and subscribe the following oath to be filed and preserved by the commissioner:   "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and diligently perform all the duties required of me as_______________of the correctional system, and will observe and execute the laws, rules and regulations passed and prescribed for the government thereof so far as the same concerns or pertains to any employment, and that I will not ill-treat or abuse any offender under my care contrary to the law and the rules and regulations prescribed by legal authority. So help me God."
MS Code § 47-5-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-43. Workers' compensation coverage

 The commissioner shall purchase workers' compensation insurance with coverage for all personnel employed by the department as authorized by law, and all personnel shall be entitled to the benefits prescribed by the operation of law, Sections 71-3-1 through 71-3-111, as the same is now or may hereafter be amended, cited as the "Workers' Compensation Law."
MS Code § 47-5-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-47. Nepotism prohibited; employees not to be interested in contracts

 It shall be unlawful for any person related by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree computed according to the rules of the civil law to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or commissioner to accept any employment in the state correctional system, neither shall the commissioner or other officer or employee of the state correctional system be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, purchase or sale for or in behalf of or on account of the state correctional system.
MS Code § 47-5-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-49. Employees not to engage in other business

 Neither the commissioner nor any other employee, save physicians and chaplains not employed for all their time, shall have or engage in any other business during his normal hours of employment that may require his personal attention or time. The Governor, in the case of the commissioner, and the commissioner in the case of any other employee shall receive prior notification and approve outside employment and the respective parties named herein shall punish a violation of this provision by the dismissal of the employee if the offense justifies such dismissal.
MS Code § 47-5-54 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-54. Status of employees as peace officers; promulgation and enforcement of speed limits upon grounds of correctional facilities

 Employees assigned to the canine unit of the department may, upon request, assist law enforcement agencies by using specially trained dogs in any matter relating to the tracking, discovery or capture of any person in the enforcement of criminal statutes pertaining to the possession, sale or use of narcotics or other dangerous drugs, or in the pursuit of suspected felons and, while so doing, shall have the status of peace officers anywhere in the state and shall have the status of law enforcement officers and peace officers as contemplated by Sections 45-6-3, 97-3-7 and 97-3-19.   Employees of the department while performing their officially assigned duties relating to the custody, control, transportation, recapture or arrest of any offender within the jurisdiction of the department or any offender of any jail, penitentiary, public workhouse or overnight lockup of the state or any political subdivision thereof not within the jurisdiction of the department, shall have the status of peace officers anywhere in the state in any matter relating to the custody, control, transportation or recapture of such offender, and shall have the status of law enforcement officers and peace officers as contemplated by Sections 45-6-3, 97-3-7 and 97-3-19.   The commissioner may appoint investigators with the Corrections Investigation Division who have been certified by the Board on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training and who shall be empowered to investigate and enforce all applicable regulations of the department, which are related to the functions and missions of the department, and all laws of the State of Mississippi and who shall be empowered to investigate and enforce all laws of the State of Mississippi in private correctional facilities and regional county correctional facilities. These employees shall have the status of law enforcement officers and peace officers as contemplated by Sections 45-6-3, 97-3-7 and 97-3-19.   These officers shall be under the supervision of the commissioner. These officers may perform any service of process required to be performed at any facility owned by the Department of Corrections, at any private correctional facility or at any regional county correctional facility.   The commissioner may promulgate rules regulating the speed of motor vehicles on roads within the grounds of any correctional facility and such restrictions may be enforced by employees of the department by citation or as otherwise prescribed by law.
MS Code § 47-5-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-55. Exemption from jury service

 The officers and employees of the state correctional system are exempt from jury service.
MS Code § 47-5-56 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-56. Lease of property; operating funds; disposal of income; transfer of property

 The department shall lease to the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks for a period of twenty (20) years all timberlands in Quitman County for an annual rental of One Dollar ($1.00). The lands so leased to the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall be used and maintained as a public game and fish management area. Proceeds from the sale of the timber or from any forest management practice shall be deposited into the Lambert State Forest Revolving Fund created in Section 47-5-78. All costs associated with the management of timber shall be paid from the fund. The remaining funds shall then be deposited in the Prison Agricultural Enterprises Fund, as created in Section 47-5-66. Any timber needed in the building operations carried on by the department may be purchased by the department at a cost not to exceed the cost of the management of that timber. Upon the transfer of the real property described in Section 1 of Chapter 517, Laws of 2001, to the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, the department and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks may terminate or modify as appropriate any lease entered into under this section regarding such property.
MS Code § 47-5-58 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-58. Sales by commissary to persons or agencies

 The commissary located at any facility of the correctional system shall not sell to any person or agency, any food or other commodities, whether produced by the correctional system or not, for any amount less than the wholesale price of such food or other commodities in the area of the facility.
MS Code § 47-5-70 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-70. "Board" and "lessee" defined

 As used in this chapter, "board" shall include the Mississippi Board of Corrections or its successor, and "lessee" shall mean the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service.
MS Code § 47-5-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-71. Construction or pavement of roads

 The State Highway Commission and the Mississippi Department of Corrections are hereby authorized to enter into and perform agreements to contract together for the construction or the pavement of roads by the State Highway Department in and adjoining to any facility of the correctional system.
MS Code § 47-5-72 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-72. Establishment of regional recycling centers at regional correctional facilities; participation of inmates in recycling center work program

 The Department of Corrections, counties and municipalities are authorized to develop regional recycling centers at regional correctional facilities.The department may establish a work program for inmates to participate in the recycling program. Inmates that are ineligible to participate in joint state-county programs and public service programs are also ineligible to participate in the program established for regional recycling centers.
MS Code § 47-5-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-75. Suits by or against board of corrections; tort liability insurance

 The department is authorized to bring and maintain suits for the collection and enforcement of all demands and debts owing to the correctional system. No bond for costs, appeal bond, supersedeas bond or other security shall at any time be required of the department in any civil suit of any kind brought by or against it or its employees in their official capacity, except such suits as may be brought against it or them by the State of Mississippi. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi is hereby directed to assist the department in the filing and prosecution of any suits filed herein.   The department shall have the further power and authority, in its discretion, to take adequate liability insurance on the operation of said correctional system, including liability insurance to protect the commissioner and other regular employees of the correctional system from tort actions in any state or federal court.
MS Code § 47-5-76 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-76. Payment of court costs for inmate's civil action against Department employee pertaining to condition of confinement

  Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, if an inmate plaintiff files a pauper's affidavit in a civil action and the defendant is an employee of the department and the civil action pertains to the inmate's condition of confinement, the department shall pay, out of any funds available for such purpose, all costs of court assessed against the inmate in the civil action. However, the department shall not pay the costs of court if the inmate has on three (3) or more prior occasions, while incarcerated, brought an action or appeal that was dismissed on the grounds that it was frivolous, malicious, or failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.  An inmate shall not bring a civil action or appeal a judgment in a civil action or proceeding in forma pauperis if the prisoner has, on three (3) or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court that was dismissed on the grounds that it was frivolous, malicious, or failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, unless the prisoner is under imminent danger of serious physical injury.    An inmate who proceeds in forma pauperis in a civil action shall pay twenty percent (20%) per month of the funds in his or her inmate account to the Department of Corrections until all filing fees and costs of his or her litigation are paid to the department. The department may withdraw such funds automatically from the account of any inmate permitted a civil filing as a pauper. If an inmate is allowed an appeal in forma pauperis of a civil action, the inmate shall reimburse all costs and fees to the department by automatic withdrawal each month in the amount of twenty percent (20%) of his or her funds until all state funds are reimbursed.
MS Code § 47-5-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-77. Remission to State Treasurer of funds belonging to correctional system; payment of bills and accounts of correctional system

 The commissioner shall remit to the State Treasurer all moneys belonging to the correctional system received by him in accordance with the provisions of Section 7-9-21. All bills and accounts of said correctional system shall be paid from appropriations made by the Legislature upon sworn accounts and warrants drawn by the State Fiscal Management Board on the State Treasurer in the same manner as provided by general law. Each account shall be approved by the commissioner or, in the commissioner's absence, by his designee.
MS Code § 47-5-78 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-78. Creation of the "Lambert State Forest Revolving Fund."

 There is established within the State Treasury a revolving fundto fund forest management costs provided under Sections 47-5-56 and 47-5-66 for the Lambert State Forest in Quitman County and shall be disbursed as provided in those sections. The fund shall be called the "Lambert State Forest Revolving Fund," and moneys for the fund shall accrue from any revenues derived from the Lambert State Forest including, but not limited to, timber sales and any other revenue derived from forest management practices. The State Treasurer shall invest all monies in the fund, and interest earned on the investments shall be paid back into the fund and not into the General Fund. The fund shall be audited annually by the State Auditor.
MS Code § 47-5-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-79. How purchases to be made

 All contracts for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment and sustenance for the offenders of the correctional system shall be made under the provisions of the state purchasing law, same being Sections 31-7-1 through 31-7-55.