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MS Code § 45-35-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 35 - Identification Cards|Article 3 - Personal Identification Cards for Persons With Disabilities|§ 45-35-63. Proof of date of birth

 The department shall require an applicant for an identification card for persons with disabilities to furnish a birth certificate or other verifiable evidence stating the applicant's birth date.
MS Code § 45-35-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 35 - Identification Cards|Article 3 - Personal Identification Cards for Persons With Disabilities|§ 45-35-65. Fee

 The department shall collect a fee for an identification card for persons with disabilities as prescribed in Section 63-1-43.
MS Code § 45-35-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 35 - Identification Cards|Article 3 - Personal Identification Cards for Persons With Disabilities|§ 45-35-67. Misuse of identification card a misdemeanor

 It is a misdemeanor for any person:   To lend his or her identification card for persons with disabilities to any other person or knowingly to permit the use thereof by another; and   To display or represent as his or her own any identification card for persons with disabilities not issued to him or her.
MS Code § 47-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-1. Policy of state in operation and management of correctional system; independent internal examinations

 It shall be the policy of this state, in the operation and management of the correctional system, to so manage and conduct the same in that manner as will be consistent with the operation of a modern correctional system and with the view of making the system self-sustaining. Those convicted of violating the law and sentenced to a term in the state correctional system shall have humane treatment, and be given opportunity, encouragement and training in the manner of reformation.   It shall be the policy of this state that the correctional system shall be operated and managed in the most efficient and economical manner possible. The Mississippi Department of Corrections shall so manage and operate the correctional system in that manner in order to make the system self-sustaining and to conserve state general fund revenues. The Mississippi Department of Corrections shall provide leadership to bring about the earliest possible construction of satisfactory prison inmate facilities, and shall utilize existing state resources, including inmates for prison construction labor, when and wherever practicable, in order to minimize the need for state general funds for prison construction.   It shall be the policy of this state that periodic independent internal investigations of the department shall be conducted to ensure the implementation of state correctional policies.
MS Code § 47-5-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-2. Corrections Investigative Taskforce created

  There is hereby created the Corrections Investigative Taskforce which shall consist of the following members: the Attorney General; State Auditor; the Chief Executive Officer of the Bureau of Narcotics, or his designee; the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Public Safety, or his designee; the Chairman of the Senate Corrections Committee and the Chairman of the House Penitentiary Committee.   The taskforce shall:   Conduct or cause to be conducted periodic investigation of the Department of Corrections;   Study and make recommendations on correctional policies, including, but not limited to:   Drug trafficking;   Inmate gang activity;   Internal accounting and control procedures; and   Correction services and programs.     Request assistance from the Department of Audit, Office of the Attorney General, Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Narcotics and any other state agency. Any state agency shall comply with a request for assistance to the fullest extent possible.     The taskforce shall submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature no later than January 15 of each year.
MS Code § 47-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-3. Facilities of the correctional system; their purposes and locations

 The plantation known as Parchman owned by the state in Sunflower and Quitman Counties, and in such other places as are now or may be hereafter owned or operated by the state for correctional purposes shall constitute the facilities of the correctional system for the custody, punishment, confinement at hard labor and reformation of all persons convicted of felony in the courts of the state and sentenced to the custody of the department, and whenever the term "penitentiary" or "state penitentiary" appears in the laws of the State of Mississippi, it shall mean any facility under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections which is used for the purposes described herein.
MS Code § 47-5-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-4. Definitions

 For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require:   "Adult" shall mean a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older, or any person convicted of any crime not subject to the provisions of the Youth Court Law, or any person "certified" to be tried as an adult by any youth court in the state.   "Juvenile," "minor" or "youthful" shall mean a person less than eighteen (18) years of age.   "Offender" shall mean any person convicted of a crime or offense under the laws and ordinances of the state and its political subdivisions.   "Facility or institution" shall mean any facility for the custody, care, treatment and study of offenders which is under the supervision and control of the Department of Corrections, including but not limited to the State Penitentiary property located in Sunflower and Quitman Counties.   "Detention" shall mean the temporary care of juveniles and adults who require secure custody for their own or the community's protection in a physically restricting facility prior to adjudication, or retention in a physically restricting facility upon being taken into custody after an alleged parole or probation violation.   "Unit of local government" shall mean a county, city, town, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of the state.   "Department" shall mean the Mississippi Department of Corrections.   "Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of Corrections.   "Correctional system" shall mean the facilities, institutions, programs and personnel of the Department of Corrections utilized for adult offenders who are committed to the custody of the department.
MS Code § 47-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-5. Limited centralization of facilities

 The commissioner, as soon as possible after passage of this section, shall prepare a plan to bring about the limited centralization of facilities within the state correctional system grounds at Parchman, Mississippi. The commissioner is authorized and empowered to use any state funds appropriated for such purposes, together with any available federal funds appropriated by the United States Congress for improvement of correctional institutions to construct modern security facilities for housing of offenders to the end that the state correctional system achieves the greatest degree of security for said offenders. Provided, however, that no new facility to house offenders shall be constructed within two-fifths (Cr) of a mile of any other offender camp. The commissioner shall bring about centralization of food facilities, recreational activities, utility services and other related facilities and correctional services that are presently decentralized within the correctional system.   It is the intent of the Mississippi Legislature that the commissioner shall fully utilize existing knowledge, architectural plans and expertise currently available with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to the end that the State of Mississippi shall have an efficient, modern, and properly secure state correctional system.   The commissioner is authorized to receive and disburse private and public grants, gifts and bequests which may be available to this state for correctional facilities, offender rehabilitation purposes and related purposes, which said sum so received shall be subject to all of the laws applicable to the State Fiscal Management Board.
MS Code § 47-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-7. Seal

 The department shall procure a United States lock-seal, to be styled "Mississippi Department of Corrections" of which the commissioner shall be the custodian. Such seal shall be used to authenticate all the written official acts, orders and process executed and issued from the department, and especially on all orders dispatched to the county jails for offenders who have been sentenced to the custody of the department.
MS Code § 47-5-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-8. Department of Corrections; creation; divisions; succession to interests of State Penitentiary and State Probation and Parole Board

  There is created the Mississippi Department of Corrections, which shall be under the policy direction of the Governor. The chief administrative officer of the department shall be the Commissioner of Corrections.     There shall be a Division of Administration and Finance within the department, which shall have as its chief administrative officer a Deputy Commissioner for Administration and Finance who shall be appointed by the commissioner, and shall be directly responsible to the commissioner.   There shall be a Division of Community Corrections within the department, which shall have as its chief administrative officer a Deputy Commissioner for Community Corrections, who shall be appointed by the commissioner, and shall be directly responsible to the commissioner. The Probation and Parole Board shall continue to exercise the authority as provided by law, but after July 1, 1976, the Division of Community Corrections shall serve as the administrative agency for the Probation and Parole Board.     The department shall succeed to the exclusive control of all records, books, papers, equipment and supplies, and all lands, buildings and other real and personal property now or hereafter belonging to or assigned to the use and benefit or under the control of the Mississippi State Penitentiary and the Mississippi Probation and Parole Board, except the records of parole process and revocation and legal matters related thereto, and shall have the exercise and control of the use, distribution and disbursement of all funds, appropriations and taxes now or hereafter in possession, levied, collected or received or appropriated for the use, benefit, support and maintenance of these two (2) agencies except as otherwise provided by law, and the department shall have general supervision of all the affairs of the two (2) agencies herein named except as otherwise provided by law, and the care and conduct of all buildings and grounds, business methods and arrangements of accounts and records, the organization of the administrative plans of each institution, and all other matters incident to the proper functioning of the two (2) agencies.   The commissioner may lease the lands for oil, gas, mineral exploration and other purposes, and contract with other state agencies for the proper management of lands under such leases or for the provision of other services, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the General Fund of the state.
MS Code § 47-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-11. Department to collect certain prison, probation and post-release supervision data; report to Oversight Task Force

  The Mississippi Department of Corrections shall collect the following information:   Prison data shall include:  1. Recidivism rates by offense type;   2. Recidivism rates by risk level;    The number of offenders entering prison on a new offense;   The number of offenders entering prison as a revocation of supervision;   The average sentence length for new prison sentences by offense type;   The average sentence length for offenders entering prison for a probation revocation;   The average sentence length for offenders entering prison for a parole revocation;   The average percentage of prison sentence served in prison by offense type;   The average length of stay by offense type;   Recidivism rates. For the purposes of this report, "recidivism" means conviction of a new felony offense within three (3) years of release from prison;   Total prison population;    1. By offense type;   2. By type of admission into prison.    Probation data shall include:   The number of offenders supervised on probation;   The number of offenders placed on probation;   The number of probationers revoked for a technical violation and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a technical violation center;   The number of probationers revoked for a technical violation and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in another type of department of correction;   The number of probationers who are convicted of a new felony offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment;   The number of probationers held on a violation in a county jail awaiting a revocation hearing; and   The average length of stay in a county jail for probationers awaiting a revocation hearing.     Post-release supervision data shall include:   The number of offenders supervised on post-release supervision;   The number of offenders placed on post-release supervision;   The number of post-release probationers revoked for a technical violation and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a technical violation center;   The number of post-release probationers revoked for a technical violation and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in another type of department of correction facility;   The number of post-release probationers who are convicted of a new felony offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment;   The number of post-release probationers held on a violation in a county jail awaiting a revocation hearing; and   The average length of stay in a county jail for post-release probationers awaiting a revocation hearing.       The Department of Corrections shall semiannually report information required in subsection (1) of this section to the Oversight Task Force, and upon request, shall report the information to the PEER Committee.
MS Code § 47-5-20 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-20. Powers and duties of commissioner

 The commissioner shall have the following powers and duties:   To establish the general policy of the department;   To approve proposals for the location of new facilities, for major renovation activities, and for the creation of new programs and divisions within the department as well as for the abolition of the same; provided, however, that the commissioner shall approve the location of no new facility unless the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality in which the new facility is to be located shall have had the opportunity with at least sixty (60) days' prior notice to disapprove the location of the proposed facility. If either the board of supervisors or the governing authorities shall disapprove the facility, it shall not be located in that county or municipality. Said notice shall be made by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the members of the board or governing authorities and to the clerk thereof;   Except as otherwise provided or required by law, to open bids and approve the sale of any products or manufactured goods by the department according to applicable provisions of law regarding bidding and sale of state property, and according to rules and regulations established by the State Fiscal Management Board; and   To adopt administrative rules and regulations including, but not limited to, offender transfer procedures, award of administrative earned time, personnel procedures, employment practices.   To make personnel actions for a period of one (1) year beginning July 1, 2016, that are exempt from State Personnel Board rules, regulations and procedures in order to give the commissioner flexibility in making an orderly, effective and timely reorganization and realignment of the department.
MS Code § 47-5-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-23. Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections

 The department shall be vested with the exclusive responsibility for management and control of the correctional system, and all properties belonging thereto, subject only to the limitations of this chapter, and shall be responsible for the management of affairs of the correctional system and for the proper care, treatment, feeding, clothing and management of the offenders confined therein. The commissioner shall have final authority to employ and discharge all employees of the correctional system, except as otherwise provided by law.
MS Code § 47-5-24 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-24. Commissioner of Corrections; appointment; compensation; qualifications; bond

  The Governor shall appoint a Commissioner of Corrections, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Such commissioner may be removed by the Governor. The commissioner shall be the chief executive, administrative and fiscal officer of the department.   The commissioner shall receive an annual salary fixed by the Governor, not to exceed the maximum authorized by law, in addition to all actual, necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of official duties, including mileage as authorized by law.   The commissioner shall possess the following minimum qualifications:   A master's degree in corrections, criminal justice, guidance, social work, or some related field, and at least six (6) years full-time experience in corrections, including at least three (3) years of correctional management experience; or   A bachelor's degree in a field described in subparagraph (a) of this subsection and at least ten (10) years full-time work in corrections, five (5) years of which shall have been in correctional management; or   Shall possess at least a bachelor's degree and relevant experience in fiscal management in the private or public sector.     The commissioner shall be required, upon assuming the duties of his office, to execute a good and sufficient bond payable to the State of Mississippi in the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00), conditioned upon an accurate accounting for all monies and property coming into his hands. The commissioner, upon approval by the Governor, may require of other officers, employees and agents of the department a good and sufficient bond in such sum as he may determine, subject to the minimum requirements set forth herein, payable to the State of Mississippi upon like condition. The bonds shall be approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State, and shall be executed by a surety company authorized to do business under the laws of this state. The premium on any such bond shall be paid by the state out of the support and maintenance fund of the department.
MS Code § 47-5-28 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 5 - Correctional System|Operation, Management and Personnel|§ 47-5-28. Additional powers and duties of commissioner

 The commissioner shall have the following powers and duties:   To implement and administer laws and policy relating to corrections and coordinate the efforts of the department with those of the federal government and other state departments and agencies, county governments, municipal governments, and private agencies concerned with providing offender services;   To establish standards, in cooperation with other state agencies having responsibility as provided by law, provide technical assistance, and exercise the requisite supervision as it relates to correctional programs over all state-supported adult correctional facilities and community-based programs;   To promulgate and publish such rules, regulations and policies of the department as are needed for the efficient government and maintenance of all facilities and programs in accord insofar as possible with currently accepted standards of adult offender care and treatment;   To provide the Parole Board with suitable and sufficient office space and support resources and staff necessary to conducting Parole Board business under the guidance of the Chairman of the Parole Board;   To contract for transitional reentry center beds that will be used as noncorrections housing for offenders released from the department on parole, probation or post-release supervision but do not have appropriate housing available upon release. At least one hundred (100) transitional reentry center beds contracted by the department and chosen by the Parole Board shall be available for the Parole Board to place parolees without appropriate housing;   To make an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature reflecting the activities of the department and make recommendations for improvement of the services to be performed by the department;   To cooperate fully with periodic independent internal investigations of the department and to file the report with the Governor and the Legislature;   To make personnel actions for a period of one (1) year beginning July 1, 2016, that are exempt from State Personnel Board rules, regulations and procedures in order to give the commissioner flexibility in making an orderly, effective and timely reorganization and realignment of the department; and   To perform such other duties necessary to effectively and efficiently carry out the purposes of the department as may be directed by the Governor.