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NH Rev Stat § 622:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:6-a - Security Screening Required.

    622:6-a Security Screening Required. –||Any individual entering the secure perimeter of a state correctional facility, including but not limited to visitors, state officials, employees, contractors, and vendors, shall be subject to one or more security screenings and inspections that will incorporate the use of electronic devices, visual searches, pat searches, or search by drug dog. All prisoners may be subject to one or more security screenings and inspections, including a full body security scanner at any time and shall be subject to one or more security screenings, including a full body scanner upon entering the secure perimeter of a state correctional facility. The full body security scanners shall be installed and operated in a manner that only enables the detection of weapons and contraband. No image created by a full body scanner shall be copied or duplicated except for images that are used for investigative purposes or that show weapons or contraband and are needed as evidence for prosecution.|||Source. 2016, 263:5, eff. July 1, 2016. 2017, 175:1, eff. Aug. 27, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:7 - Duties of Commissioner of Corrections.

    622:7 Duties of Commissioner of Corrections. –||It shall be the duty of the commissioner of corrections:||I. To receive, safely keep, and employ in the prisons all convicts pursuant to their sentence and until discharged according to law. The commissioner may employ convicts outside of the prison walls, upon terms to be prescribed by the commissioner. A prisoner, while so employed, or while going to or from the prisons in connection with such employment, shall be deemed to be in prison as far as all laws relating to escape, attempts to escape, and aiding escape are concerned.||II. To have the custody and superintendence of all persons confined in the prisons, and of all property belonging thereto.||III. To obey and enforce all orders, bylaws, and regulations which the commissioner may make for the management of the prisons.||IV. To command the military guard for the prisons.||V. To be the fiscal officer of the prisons.||VI. To keep a regular and true account upon the books of the prisons of all money received and expended on account of the prisons and of all their concerns.||VII. Not to be a contractor for the prisons and not to be interested in any contract therewith.||VIII. [Repealed.]||IX. To conduct and manage the industries at the prisons.||X. To conduct and manage the educational program of the prisons.|||Source. RS 227:6. CS 242:6. GS 270:6. GL 288:6. PS 285:7. 1917, 45:2. PL 400:8. 1927, 101:2. 1941, 15:1. RL 464:8. RSA 622:7. 1977, 600:36. 1988, 170:4, I, eff. June 25, 1988. 1998, 386:5, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:7-a - Prisoner's Fund.

    622:7-a Prisoner's Fund. –||Notwithstanding RSA 6:11, any interest accruing on moneys in any account established by the commissioner of corrections for the benefit of prisoners and their families or dependent relatives is hereby continually appropriated to the state prisons and may be expended by the commissioner of corrections for the benefit of all prisoners.|||Source. 1975, 304:1. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:7-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:7-b - Repealed by 2019, 346:50, eff. July 1, 2019.

    622:7-b Repealed by 2019, 346:50, eff. July 1, 2019. –|
NH Rev Stat § 622:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:8 - Committals.

    622:8 Committals. –||Whenever any convict shall be sentenced to confinement at hard labor the court shall order the sheriff of the county to remove him to the state prisons and deliver him to the commissioner of corrections.|||Source. RS 227:7. CS 242:7. GS 270:7. GL 288:7. PS 285:8. PL 400:9. RL 464:9. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:9 - Mittimus; Return.

    622:9 Mittimus;  Return. –||The clerk of the court shall deliver a copy of the conviction, judgment and order issued pursuant to RSA 622:8 to the sheriff, who shall deliver the same, with a copy of his return indorsed thereon, to the commissioner of corrections, and shall make due return to the court of the service of the order, upon an attested copy thereof.|||Source. RS 227:8. CS 242:8. GS 270:8. GL 288:8. PS 285:9. PL 400:10. RL 464:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:10 - United States Prisoners.

    622:10 United States Prisoners. –||The commissioner of corrections shall receive all convicts sentenced to confinement to hard labor by any court of the United States within this state who may be delivered to him by the marshal of the district or his deputy, and shall safely keep such convicts until discharged by due course of the laws of the United States.|||Source. RS 227:14. CS 242:14. GS 270:14. GL 288:14. PS 285:10. PL 400:11. RL 464:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:11 - Illegal Privileges.

    622:11 Illegal Privileges. –||A person employed in the prisons is guilty of a misdemeanor if he negligently suffers a prisoner to be at large, or to be visited, comforted, or relieved contrary to the regulations of the prisons or the terms of the sentence of the prisoner, and is guilty of a class B felony if he knowingly allows a controlled substance to be passed to a prisoner.|||Source. RS 227:11. CS 242:11. GS 270:11. GL 288:11. PS 285:11. PL 400:12. RL 464:12. RSA 622:11. 1977, 588:21. 1998, 386:6, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:12 - Repealed by 1985, 80:2, I, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

    622:12 Repealed by 1985, 80:2, I, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 622:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:13 - Repealed by 1985, 80:2, II, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

    622:13 Repealed by 1985, 80:2, II, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. –|
NH Rev Stat § 622:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:14 - Discipline.

    622:14 Discipline. –||The commissioner of corrections may offer suitable encouragement and indulgences to those convicts who distinguish themselves by obedience, industry, and faithfulness, and may punish any convict guilty of insolence or ill language to any officer of the prisons or guilty of obstinate and refractory behavior by solitary imprisonment not more than 30 days at one time or by such other reasonable and effective modes of punishment and discipline as the commissioner of corrections may from time to time prescribe.|||Source. RS 227:15. CS 242:15. GS 270:16. GL 288:16. 1885, 72:1. PS 285:15. PL 400:16. RL 464:15. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:15 - Communication by Inmates with Commissioner of Corrections, etc.

    622:15 Communication by Inmates with Commissioner of Corrections, etc. –||Whenever a prisoner desires to communicate with the governor and council, the commissioner of corrections, or the attorney general, he shall be permitted to do so in a direct manner, without any supervision being exercised over his letters by the prison officials or other persons.|||Source. 1879, 97:1. PS 285:16. PL 400:17. RL 464:16. 1949, 25:1, eff. Feb. 23, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:16 - Supplies for Discharged Prisoners.

    622:16 Supplies for Discharged Prisoners. –||The commissioner of corrections may furnish, at the expense of the state, to each convict discharged from the prisons a suit of clothes, decent and suitable for the season in which he is discharged, and a sum of money, not more than $ 100.|||Source. RS 227:16. CS 270:17. GS 242:16. GL 288:17. PS 285:17. 1903, 84:1. PL 400:18. RL 464:17. 1951, 138:1. RSA 622:16. 1965, 25:1. 1971, 299:1. 1975, 210:1. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:17 - Committal of One Held on Civil Process.

    622:17 Committal of One Held on Civil Process. –||If any convict sentenced to confinement to hard labor or solitary imprisonment shall, at the time of his sentence, be in custody of the sheriff on civil process, mesne or final, the sheriff shall, on the delivery of such convict to the commissioner of corrections, leave with the commissioner of corrections an attested copy of such process.|||Source. RS 227:17. CS 242:17. GS 270:18. GL 288:18. PS 285:18. PL 400:19. RL 464:18.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:18 - Detention of One Held on Civil Process.

    622:18 Detention of One Held on Civil Process. –||The commissioner of corrections shall detain a convict committed under the circumstances provided for in RSA 622:17 by virtue of the civil process as well as of his sentence, and, if, at the expiration of the sentence, the civil process is not withdrawn, discharged, satisfied, or annulled, shall still detain the convict thereon until he is discharged or remanded by due course of law.|||Source. RS 227:18. CS 242:18. GS 270:19. GL 288:19. PS 285:19. PL 400:20. RL 464:19.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:19 - Execution on Judgment against Commissioner of Corrections.

    622:19 Execution on Judgment against Commissioner of Corrections. –||If judgment shall be rendered against a person holding the office of commissioner of corrections, for a sum of money, the execution thereon shall be against his goods, chattels, and lands, but not against his body; and, if the execution is returned unsatisfied, the creditor may file a certified copy of it, and of the return thereon, with the secretary of state.|||Source. RS 227:19. CS 242:19. GS 270:20. GL 288:20. PS 285:20. PL 400:21. RL 464:20.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:20 - Failure of Commissioner of Corrections to Pay Judgment.

    622:20 Failure of Commissioner of Corrections to Pay Judgment. –||The secretary shall immediately notify the commissioner of corrections thereof, in writing, with the day on which the copy was filed. If the execution shall remain unsatisfied for the space of 90 days after such notification, the commissioner of corrections shall be removed from his office, and execution may then issue against him in common form.|||Source. RS 227:20. CS 242:20. GS 270:21. GL 288:21. PS 285:21. PL 400:22. RL 464:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:21 - Repealed by 1988, 170:4, II, eff. June 25, 1988.

    622:21 Repealed by 1988, 170:4, II, eff. June 25, 1988. –|
NH Rev Stat § 622:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:22 - Religious Ministrations.

    622:22 Religious Ministrations. –||The rules and regulations established for the government of any prison, county correctional facility, or public charitable or reformatory institution shall provide for suitable religious instruction and ministration to the inmates.|||Source. 1881, 39:1. PS 285:24. PL 400:25. RL 464:23. RSA 622:22. 1988, 89:24, eff. June 17, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:23 - Religious Preferences.

    622:23 Religious Preferences. –||The inmates shall have freedom of religious belief and freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences, but this shall not permit anything inconsistent with proper discipline and management or any expense beyond that made under RSA 622:22.|||Source. 1881, 39:1. PS 285:25. PL 400:26. RL 464:24.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:24 - Regulations.

    622:24 Regulations. –||No person shall deliver or procure to be delivered or have in his or her possession with intent to deliver to a prisoner confined in the state prisons, or deposit or conceal in or about the prisons, or in any building or upon any land appurtenant thereto, or in any vehicle entering the premises belonging to the prisons, any article with intent that a prisoner shall receive or obtain it, or receive from a prisoner any article with intent to convey it out of the prisons, or bring into or attempt to take from the prisons any article contrary to the rules and regulations established by the commissioner of corrections and without the knowledge and permission of the commissioner of corrections, or designee.|||Source. 1925, 57:1. PL 400:31. RL 464:29. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998. 2018, 65:2, eff. July 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:25 - Penalty.

    622:25 Penalty. –||Any person who violates any provision of RSA 622:24 shall be guilty of a class B felony.|||Source. 1925, 57:1. PL 400:32. RL 464:30. RSA 622:25. 1973, 528:320, eff. at 11:59 P.M., Oct. 31, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:26 - Sales of Prison Products.

    622:26 Sales of Prison Products. –||I. The commissioner of corrections may contract for the sale or lease of goods and products which are produced at the state prisons on the open market at competitive prices, when, in his opinion, such sale or lease is in the best interests of the inmates and of the prisons and does not conflict unduly with the availability of prison manufactured goods to state and public institutions as provided for in RSA 622:5, VI and RSA 622:28, and results in the best utilization of the prison production capacity.||II. The commissioner of corrections shall not, nor shall any other authority, make any contract by which the labor or time of any prisoner in the state prisons or in any reformatory, penitentiary, or jail in the state shall be farmed out, given or sold to any person.|||Source. 1933, 42:1. RL 464:31. RSA 622:26. 1979, 113:1. 1982, 6:1. 1998, 386:7, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:27 - Sale of Prison-Made Goods.

    622:27 Sale of Prison-Made Goods. –||No goods, wares, or merchandise, manufactured, or mined wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners of other states, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation, shall be sold on the open market, or be sold to, or exchanged with, an institution of this state or with any of its political subdivisions, except under arrangements which have been entered into between the commissioner of corrections and another state's correctional institution engaged in industrial activities.|||Source. 1933, 42:1. RL 464:32. RSA 622:27. 1981, 495:3, eff. July 1, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:28 - Provision of Products for State Agencies.

    622:28 Provision of Products for State Agencies. –||No articles or supplies, except printing, such as are manufactured at the state prisons or for the state prisons in accordance with arrangements with other prison systems shall be purchased from any other source for the state or its departments or institutions if the division of procurement and support services in the department of administrative services determines that such purchases may be made at fair market value. The commissioner of corrections will advise the division of procurement and support services in the department of administrative services as to what articles or supplies are available for purchase and their current prices.|||Source. 1933, 42:1. RL 464:33. RSA 622:28. 1977, 485:2. 1981, 495:4. 1998, 386:8, eff. Aug. 26, 1998. 2014, 327:70, eff. Aug. 2, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:28-a - Industries Inventory Account.

    622:28-a Industries Inventory Account. –||I. An industries inventory account shall be maintained to enable the state prisons to implement RSA 622:26-28. Except for permanent personnel, all operating expenses, materials, supplies, overtime and purchase and repair of equipment determined to be necessary for the growing or manufacture of products for resale shall be a proper charge against this account. Charges for the sale of goods and services produced by the industries program shall be sufficient to defray the expenditures charged against this account and any sums obtained therefrom shall be a credit to the account.||II. The state treasurer, upon presentation of manifests prepared by the commissioner of corrections and certified by the commissioner of administrative services, is authorized to pay for materials, supplies and equipment from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.||III. The commissioner of corrections shall prepare a monthly profit and loss statement and at the end of each fiscal year shall file a report with the commissioner of administrative services in such format and containing such information as the commissioner of administrative services shall require. The commissioner of administrative services at the end of each fiscal year shall cause any profit which accrued during that year to lapse to the general fund.||IV. [Omitted.]||V. All purchases of materials, supplies, and equipment into the inventory account shall be made in accordance with the provisions of RSA 21-I:11 and any equipment purchase in excess of the approval threshold for contracts set by the governor and council manual of procedures, and made under the provisions of this section, shall require the prior approval of both the fiscal committee of the general court and the governor and council.|||Source. 1979, 268:1. 1985, 399:3, I. 1998, 386:9, 16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998. 2021, 91:71, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:28-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:28-b - Repealed by 1997, 25:1, eff. June 24, 1997.

    622:28-b Repealed by 1997, 25:1, eff. June 24, 1997. –|
NH Rev Stat § 622:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:29 - Prisoner's Earnings, etc.

    622:29 Prisoner's Earnings, etc. –||The commissioner of corrections may provide for the payment to prisoners confined in the state prisons of such pecuniary earnings, and render to their families such pecuniary assistance, as the commissioner of corrections may deem proper, under such rules as he may prescribe.|||Source. 1913, 178:1. PL 400:27. RL 464:25. RSA 622:29. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:30 - Source of Payment.

    622:30 Source of Payment. –||When allowed, the earnings and assistance provided for in RSA 622:29 shall be paid out of such money as may be available for current running expenses of the state prisons.|||Source. 1913, 178:1. PL 400:28. RL 464:26. RSA 622:30. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:31 - Application of Earnings.

    622:31 Application of Earnings. –||Any money accruing under RSA 622:29 shall be and remain under the control of the commissioner of corrections, to be used for the benefit of the prisoner, his family or dependent relatives under such regulation as to time, manner, and amount of disbursement as the commissioner of corrections may prescribe.|||Source. 1913, 178:2. PL 400:29. RL 464:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 622:31-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LX - Correction and Punishment|Title 622 - The State Prisons|Section 622:31-a - Medical Care; Inmate Copayment Required.

    622:31-a Medical Care;  Inmate Copayment Required. –||I. The commissioner of the department of corrections shall adopt policies and procedures establishing reasonable medical and health service fees for the medical services that are provided to inmates at any state facility.||II. Except as provided in paragraph III, the commissioner may charge each inmate a reasonable fee for medical and mental health services, including prescriptions, medication, or prosthetic devices. The fee shall be deducted from the inmate's account.||III. The commissioner shall exempt the following inmates or medical visits by inmates from payment of medical and health services fees:||(a) Medical visits initiated by the medical or mental health staff, consultants, or contract personnel of the department.||(b) Inmates at reception centers.||(c) Juvenile inmates.||(d) Pregnant inmates.||(e) Seriously mentally ill inmates.||(f) Developmentally disabled inmates, as determined by authorized staff.||(g) Inmates who are housed in the secure psychiatric unit.||(h) Inmates who are undergoing follow-up medical treatment for chronic diseases.||IV. An inmate shall not be refused medical treatment for financial reasons.||V. The commissioner shall establish criteria for reasonable deductions from moneys credited to the inmate's account to repay the cost of medical treatment for injuries that were self-inflicted or inflicted by the inmate on others.||VI. All moneys received by the department for medical and health service fees shall be deposited in the general fund.||VII. The commissioner shall establish criteria for reasonable deductions from moneys credited to the inmate's account to repay the cost of:||(a) Property that the inmate willfully damages or destroys during the inmate's incarceration.||(b) Searching for and apprehending an inmate who escapes or attempts to escape.||(c) Quelling a riot or other disturbance in which the inmate is unlawfully involved.||No inmate shall be subject to deductions from moneys credited to the inmate's account under paragraphs V and VII until the inmate has been afforded a due process hearing and has been found guilty.||VIII. For purposes of this section, "reasonable fee" and "reasonable deduction" mean an amount to be determined by the commissioner of corrections, and which shall be based upon the actual or approximate costs of the property or service for which reimbursement is required.||IX. For purposes of this section, "inmate's account" means the moneys belonging to an inmate which are held in the department of corrections trust fund.|||Source. 1995, 296:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|