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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.2473 - Regulations regarding deductions.

1. The Department may adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 209.247 and 209.463.
2. Any regulations adopted pursuant to this section must be adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 233B of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1895)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.2475 - Deductions from individual account of offender: Limitations; disposition of remaining money upon release of offender; reduction or elimination; transmittal.

1. The Director shall not make any deduction from the individual account of an offender in the Prisoners’ Personal Property Fund if the balance in the account is below the minimum balance designated by the Director pursuant to this subsection. The Director shall designate the minimum balance of an account of an offender required before such other deductions or withdrawals from the account may be made by the Director or the offender.
2. Upon the release of an offender, any money from any source remaining in an account of the offender may be used to reimburse the Department for any expenses related to his or her release, including, but not limited to, any expenses incurred by the Department pursuant to NRS 209.511 or for transportation of the offender.
3. The Director may reduce or eliminate a deduction authorized pursuant to NRS 209.247 or 209.463 to the extent necessary to comply with a restriction imposed by federal law on deductions from wages of an offender or from the account of an offender.
4. The Director may, if appropriate, transmit a deduction made pursuant to NRS 209.247 or 209.463 directly to the person, entity or fund for whom the deduction was made.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 3176)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.248 - Account for disbursements to offenders: Establishment; use; reimbursement.

1. The Department shall establish in any insured bank, credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank doing business in this state an account for disbursements to offenders. The balance in the account must not exceed $600,000. Money in the account may be expended only for the payment of transactions involving offenders’ trust funds.
2. Payments made from the account for disbursements to offenders must be promptly reimbursed from money in the appropriate fund on deposit with the State Treasurer.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1162; A 1999, 1459; 2001 Special Session, 194)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.249 - Package program for offenders: Establishment; prohibition on participation.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, the Director shall establish and maintain a package program for offenders.
2. The Director may prohibit an offender from participating in the package program if the offender is in:
(a) Disciplinary segregation; or
(b) Administrative segregation and the prohibition is necessary to ensure the safety of other offenders in administrative segregation.
3. The Medical Director may prohibit an offender from participating in the package program if:
(a) The offender is receiving medical care from the Medical Director; and
(b) The prohibition is necessary to ensure the health of the offender.
4. The contents of a package received by an offender participating in the package program are not subject to any deduction described in NRS 209.247.
5. As used in this section:
(a) "Administrative segregation" means the separation of an offender from the general population which is imposed by classification when the continued presence of the offender in the general population or protective segregation would pose a serious threat to life, property, self, staff, other offenders or to the security or orderly operation of the facility or institution.
(b) "Package program" means a program which authorizes an offender to order at least one clothing package and one food package, respectively, per quarter.
(c) "Protective segregation" means the separation of an offender from the general population when the offender requests or requires protection from other offenders for reasons relating to health or safety.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1894; A 2023, 2430)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.251 - Books and papers kept by Board or Director: Inspection; delivery to successors.

All books and papers kept by or under the direction of the Secretary of the Board or the Director shall:
1. At all times, on all legal days, be open to the inspection of the members of the Board, all other state officers, members of the Legislature, and the sheriffs of the several counties of this state.
2. At the expiration of their term of office, be delivered to their successors.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 848)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.253 - Treatment of offenders with human immunodeficiency virus.

1. The Department or the operator of a private facility or institution shall not enter into a contract or other agreement with any person or entity to provide medical services to offenders who are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus unless the person or entity demonstrates that at least 95 percent of the patients who are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus to whom the person or entity provides medical services:
(a) Are offered treatment on the same day as the diagnosis; and
(b) Are able to begin such treatment not later than 7 days after diagnosis.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an institution, facility or private facility or institution shall take reasonable measures to ensure the availability of:
(a) Any drug prescribed for treating the human immunodeficiency virus in the form recommended by the prescribing practitioner to each offender who has been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus to the same extent and under the same conditions as other medical care for offenders.
(b) Methods of preventing the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus, including, without limitation, drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for that purpose, to all offenders free of charge.
3. An institution, facility or private facility or institution:
(a) Is not required to make available a drug described in subsection 2 for which a prescription is required to an offender for whom such a prescription has not been issued.
(b) Shall take reasonable measures to make available to all offenders a provider of health care who is authorized to issue a prescription for a drug described in subsection 2.
(c) Shall not demand, request or suggest that a provider of health care refrain from issuing a prescription for a drug described in subsection 2 to an offender or take any other measure to prevent a provider of health care from issuing such a prescription.
4. As used in this section, "provider of health care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 3490)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.254 - Department to provide list of persons eligible for parole.

At least 40 days before any scheduled action of the State Board of Parole Commissioners, the Department shall provide to the Executive Secretary of the Board a list of each person who is eligible for parole. The list must include, for each offender:
1. The name of the offender;
2. The crime for which the offender was convicted;
3. The county in which the offender was sentenced;
4. The date of his or her sentence;
5. The length of his or her sentence, including the minimum term or the minimum aggregate term, as applicable, and the maximum term or the maximum aggregate term, as applicable, of imprisonment or the definite term of imprisonment, if one is imposed;
6. The amount of time the offender actually served in the state prison;
7. The amount of credit for time previously served by the offender in a county jail; and
8. The amount of credit allowed to reduce the sentence of the offender pursuant to this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 136)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.261 - Transportation of offender to appropriate institution or facility.

1. Upon notification by the county clerk of any county in this State that a person is being held under sentence of imprisonment in the state prison, the Director shall immediately provide for the transportation of the offender from the place of confinement to an appropriate institution or facility of the Department.
2. The expense of such transportation is a charge against the Department and must be paid upon approval by the Board as other claims against the State are paid.
3. The reasonable expenses of maintaining every person sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, after 5 days’ notice to the Director, is a charge against the Department.
4. The officer in charge of transporting an offender is entitled to receive allowances for transportation and subsistence at the rates provided for state employees.
5. In all cases where an appeal is sustained by the appellate court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the rules fixed by the Supreme Court pursuant to Section 4 of Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution, further transportation of the offender is at the expense of the county in which the offender was convicted and at the same rate as provided in subsection 4.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 848; A 1983, 721; 1985, 394; 2013, 1766)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.273 - Unnecessary expense not allowed; offenders transported collectively.

The officer in charge shall transport at the same time all persons awaiting transportation, and the Board shall not allow any extra expense incurred by the making of unnecessary trips in transporting separately persons who might be transferred at the same time.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.274 - Transportation of offender to appear before court.

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, when an offender is required or requested to appear before a court in this state, the Department shall transport the offender to and from court on the day scheduled for his or her appearance.
2. If notice is not provided within the time set forth in NRS 50.215, the Department shall transport the offender to court on the date scheduled for his or her appearance if it is possible to transport the offender in the usual manner for the transportation of offenders by the Department. If it is not possible for the Department to transport the offender in the usual manner:
(a) The Department shall make the offender available on the date scheduled for his or her appearance to provide testimony by telephone or by video, if so requested by the court.
(b) The Department shall provide for special transportation of the offender to and from the court, if the court so orders. If the court orders special transportation, it shall order the county in which the court is located to reimburse the Department for any cost incurred for the special transportation.
(c) The court may order the county sheriff to transport the offender to and from the court at the expense of the county.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2591; A 2001 Special Session, 194)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.2745 - Payment for transportation of offender to appear as witness in action for small claims.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, if an offender has filed an action for small claims pursuant to chapter 73 of NRS and the offender requests to appear as a witness in the action, the offender shall pay the Department in advance for the costs the Department estimates will be incurred in providing transportation for the offender to appear in court.
2. Within 30 days after providing transportation for an offender to appear in court pursuant to subsection 1, the Department shall:
(a) Reimburse the offender for any amount paid by the offender that exceeds the actual cost incurred by the Department in providing transportation for the offender; or
(b) Charge the offender for any cost incurred by the Department in providing transportation for the offender that exceeds the amount paid by the defendant pursuant to subsection 1.
3. The provisions of this section do not apply to indigent offenders.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 68)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.276 - Reimbursement for transportation of witness in action by offender concerning civil rights.

If an offender has filed an action in federal court alleging a violation of his or her civil rights and the offender requests that any other offender appear as a witness in the action, the offender who filed the action shall reimburse the Department for any cost that is incurred in providing special transportation for any other offender to appear in court.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 3174)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.281 - Temporary interstate transportation.

An officer of the Department may transport an offender temporarily to or through any state which adjoins the State of Nevada if:
1. The offender will perform general labor in connection with forestry projects and will be directly returned to the State of Nevada after completion of the general labor; or
2. Some part of Nevada is threatened by fire or other natural disaster and the threat emanates from an adjoining state.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.291 - Transfer of offenders: Within Department; to other governmental agencies; between United States and foreign country.

1. The Director may transfer an offender:
(a) From one institution or facility to another within the Department; or
(b) To other governmental agencies,
in accordance with classification evaluations and the requirements of treatment, training, security and custody of the offender.
2. The prison sentence of an offender continues uninterrupted while the offender is at the correctional facility to which the offender has been transferred.
3. Whenever a treaty is in force providing for the transfer of offenders between the United States and a foreign country, the Director may, with the consent of the Governor, approve a transfer as provided in the treaty upon the application of the offender to the Director.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849; A 1979, 727; 1983, 721)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.293 - Transfer of offender to correctional institution of another state.

The Director may transfer to a correctional institution of another state any offender who is sentenced in that state to serve a term of imprisonment which is concurrent with and at least as long as the term which the offender would otherwise serve in Nevada.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 473)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.301 - Transfer of minors to state facility for detention of children.

1. The Department may transfer a person who is a minor and who is confined in an institution or facility of the Department to a state facility for the detention of children if the superintendent of the facility consents to the transfer.
2. As used in this section, "state facility for the detention of children" means the Nevada Youth Training Center, the Caliente Youth Center or any other state facility for the detention of children that is operated pursuant to title 5 of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849; A 1983, 722; 1989, 1956; 2003, 1126)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.311 - Transfer of persons detained in local facility to institution or facility of Department for safekeeping.

1. At the request of a county sheriff or the chief of police of a city, the Director may authorize the transfer of a person detained in a local facility to an institution or facility of the Department for safekeeping. The Director shall determine whether the person is to be transported by the staff of the Department or by the staff of the county sheriff or the chief of police who requested the transfer.
2. The Director shall determine the cost of the custody and care of a person transferred pursuant to subsection 1 which may be borne by the local government affected.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849; A 1983, 722; 2013, 187)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.321 - Transfer of offender for psychiatric observation or treatment.

The Director may arrange for the transfer of an offender to other appropriate governmental agencies for psychiatric observation, evaluation or stabilization pursuant to an agreement with the agency for such transfers. When the head of the facility to which the offender has been transferred determines that the offender has recovered from the condition which caused the transfer, the Director shall provide for the return of the offender to the Department.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.331 - Medical evaluation or treatment of offender outside institution or facility.

An offender may be taken outside an institution or facility under appropriate precautions to prevent the offender’s escape, when necessary for medical evaluation or treatment, as determined by the Director or the Director’s designee. All decisions regarding the medical evaluation or treatment of an offender, including, but not limited to, whether the offender needs to see a provider of health care outside of the prison, whether to change providers of health care and whether an offender will receive a course of treatment, are within the discretion of the Director or the Director’s designee.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849; A 1983, 722; 1997, 3181)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.341 - Director to establish system of initial classification and evaluation for offenders; assignment of offender to appropriate institution or facility of Department; administration of risk and needs assessment; validation study.

1. The Director shall:
(a) Establish, with the approval of the Board, a system of initial classification and evaluation for offenders who are sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(b) Assign every person who is sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison to an appropriate institution or facility of the Department. The assignment must be based on an evaluation of the offender’s records, particular needs and requirements for custody.
(c) Administer a risk and needs assessment to each offender for the purpose of guiding institutional programming and placement. The Department may consider the responsivity factors of an offender when making decisions concerning such programming and placement.
2. Any risk and needs assessment used by the Department pursuant to this section must undergo a validation study not less than once every 3 years. The Department shall establish quality assurance procedures to ensure proper and consistent scoring of any risk and needs assessment used pursuant to this section.
3. As used in this section:
(a) "Responsivity factors" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 213.107.
(b) "Risk and needs assessment" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 213.107.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849; A 1979, 1125; 1983, 722; 1987, 2238; 1997, 906; 2019, 4445)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.345 - Director to establish system to track expenses related to housing youthful offenders; report regarding expenses tracked by system.

1. The Director shall establish a system to track expenses that are directly related to housing youthful offenders in the institutions and facilities of the Department. The system must track all expenses that are directly related to housing youthful offenders, including, without limitation, expenses for:
(a) Education;
(b) Communication and interaction with family members and other persons;
(c) Health care;
(d) Mental health;
(e) Recreational programming; and
(f) Any other cost that the Director determines to be directly related to housing youthful offenders.
2. On or before July 30 of each year, the Director shall prepare and submit to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary a report regarding the expenses that were tracked by the system established pursuant to subsection 1 during the immediately preceding fiscal year.
3. As used in this section, "youthful offender" means an offender who is less than 18 years of age.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1001)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.351 - Director to establish system of ongoing classification and evaluation for offenders and to maintain records.

The Director shall:
1. Establish a system of ongoing classification and evaluation to ensure the individualized custody, care and training of offenders under the Department’s jurisdiction.
2. Keep, or cause to be kept, records for each offender containing:
(a) The offender’s name, age, date of birth, race, sex, height, weight, complexion, color of eyes and hair, peculiarities of build or features.
(b) The offender’s place of birth (state, county or city, or country, province or city).
(c) The offender’s occupation and whether the offender can read and write.
(d) The offender’s record of conviction, including the date of sentence, name of the judge passing sentence, county from which sentenced, crime charged, date of incarceration, term of imprisonment and expiration date of minimum and maximum terms of imprisonment.
(e) The medical records of the offender, including, but not limited to, medical records produced by the Department and medical records produced by a provider of health care outside the prison.
(f) Such other desirable or pertinent information as may be necessary.
3. Maintain a comprehensive record of the behavior of each offender reflecting his or her accomplishments and progress as well as charges of infractions of regulations, punishments imposed and medical services rendered.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 849; A 1987, 2239; 1997, 3182)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.3515 - Director may request or provide medical or mental health records of certain offenders.

1. The Director, through the Medical Director, may request from the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services access to any records in its possession which contain information that may assist in evaluating, caring for and providing treatment to an offender who previously was committed to the custody of or ordered to report to the Administrator or the Administrator’s designee pursuant to NRS 178.425 or 178.460.
2. Unless otherwise ordered by a court, upon a request for access to records of an offender pursuant to subsection 1, the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services shall provide access to any such records, including, without limitation, relevant medical and mental health records, for the limited purpose of allowing the Director or the Medical Director to evaluate, care for and provide treatment to the offender.
3. The Director, through the Medical Director, may provide to the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services or to other community medical or mental health care providers, relevant medical and mental health records of an offender serving a term of imprisonment under the custody of the Department of Corrections, for the purposes of planning the discharge of the offender and assuring the continuity of evaluation, care and treatment of the offender in the community after release from incarceration.
4. No oral or written consent of the offender is required to obtain access to records from the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services or the Department of Corrections pursuant to this section.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1256; A 2017, 356)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.3517 - Director may apply for determination of eligibility for Medicaid on behalf of offender.

The Director of the Department or his or her designee may, after informing an offender, apply for a determination of eligibility for Medicaid on behalf of the offender.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 3184)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.352 - Director may establish system for offender management.

The Director may establish, with the approval of the Board, a system for offender management, to be implemented in each institution and facility of the Department, which consists of structured living programs for offenders and the management of units by the staff, with levels of custody, security and privileges and opportunities for offenders based upon the assessed needs of the offenders as determined by their initial and ongoing classification and evaluation.
(Added to NRS by 2001 Special Session, 192)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.353 - Department to collect and submit information regarding offenders to Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History.

The Department shall collect and submit to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History:
1. A record of:
(a) The name and fingerprints of each offender serving a term of imprisonment in an institution or facility of the Department;
(b) The length of the term of imprisonment of the offender, including, without limitation, the number of days served during a period of pretrial detention, if any; and
(c) The date of admission of the offender; and
2. A notice of the release of each offender.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2095)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.354 - Department to monitor each private facility or institution which houses prisoners who are incarcerated pursuant to authority of another state; reimbursement for costs of such monitoring.

1. The Department shall monitor each private facility or institution which houses prisoners who are incarcerated pursuant to the authority of another state to ensure that the custody and care of the prisoners comply with the requirements of the Nevada Constitution and the Constitution of the United States.
2. A private facility or institution which is monitored by the Department pursuant to subsection 1 shall reimburse the Department for the costs of such monitoring. The Department shall determine the cost of the monitoring required by subsection 1 on a per-prisoner basis.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 2821)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.356 - Director to establish program of regimental discipline.

The Director, with the approval of the Board, shall establish and administer a program of regimental discipline for persons who are ordered to undergo such a program pursuant to NRS 176A.780. The program must include:
1. Incarceration and segregation of the persons in an appropriate facility of the Department;
2. Strenuous physical exercise and hard labor;
3. Military drills; and
4. Sessions for instruction in:
(a) The recognition and prevention of alcohol and other substance use disorders;
(b) The management of stress;
(c) Building character;
(d) Learning to behave in a rational manner; and
(e) Preparing for and obtaining employment.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1852)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.358 - Director to adopt regulations regarding offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender non-binary and intersex.

The Director shall, with the approval of the Board, adopt regulations prescribing standards in each institution and facility of the Department for the supervision, custody, care, security, housing and medical and mental health treatment of offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender non-binary and intersex. The regulations must:
1. Apply the generally accepted standards of care and best practices for the supervision, custody, care, security, housing and medical and mental health treatment of offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender non-binary and intersex;
2. Use respectful language and currently accepted terminology that accounts for and protects the rights of offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender non-binary and intersex; and
3. Prohibit the discrimination of offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender non-binary and intersex.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 722)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.361 - Director to adopt regulations and penalties for violations.

The Director shall:
1. Adopt with the approval of the Board such regulations as are necessary to:
(a) Maintain proper custody of an offender in accordance with the offender’s current classification.
(b) Prevent escapes and maintain good order and discipline.
2. Establish procedures by regulation for disposing of cases involving violations of law in institutions or facilities of the Department.
3. Establish sanctions appropriate to the type and severity of such violations.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 850; A 1983, 722)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.362 - Adoption of policy for interactions between male correctional staff member and woman who is incarcerated; requirements of policy.

1. Subject to the approval of the Director, the warden of each institution and the manager of each facility shall adopt a policy setting forth standards of conduct for interactions between a male correctional staff member and a woman who is incarcerated in the institution or facility.
2. The policy adopted pursuant to subsection 1 must:
(a) Be consistent with any other applicable laws or regulations;
(b) Prohibit a male correctional staff member from conducting an inspection or search of a woman who is incarcerated in the institution or facility and is in a state of undress in a private location, unless:
(1) There are extraordinary circumstances; and
(2) A female correctional staff member, or any female staff member of the institution or facility if a female correctional staff member is unavailable, is present at the time of the inspection or search; and
(c) Include, without limitation, a requirement that a male correctional staff member who inspects or searches a woman pursuant to paragraph (b) submit to the warden of the institution or manager of the facility a written report concerning the inspection or search.
3. A written report filed pursuant to subsection 2 must:
(a) Be filed not later than 72 hours after the inspection or search occurs; and
(b) Include a description of the inspection or search and any other information requested by the warden or manager, as applicable.
4. As used in this section:
(a) "Private location" means an area in an institution or facility in which a woman has a reasonable expectation of privacy, including, without limitation, an area which contains a shower or toilet, a medical examination room or an area in which body cavity searches are conducted.
(b) "State of undress" means that the naked or undergarment-clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks or breast of a woman are exposed.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 2920)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.365 - Director to establish program to prevent offenders from possessing or receiving certain publications.

1. The Director shall adopt, with the approval of the Board, regulations establishing and governing a program, to be carried out within each facility and institution, to prevent an offender from possessing or receiving a publication which is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation or which has the potential to disrupt security or promote violence or disorder in the facility or institution because the subject matter of the publication:
(a) Is sexually explicit;
(b) Is graphically violent; or
(c) Encourages or glamorizes:
(1) Crime;
(2) The activities of a criminal gang; or
(3) Violence against law enforcement, women, children or members of a particular religion, ethnic group or race or persons of a particular sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
2. The regulations must provide that if an offender is prohibited from possessing or receiving a publication pursuant to this section, the offender possessing or receiving the publication must be provided with notice of the determination and an opportunity to appeal the determination. An appeal may be summarily denied if the appeal involves a publication that is similar to a publication that previously has been prohibited.
3. The establishment of the program required pursuant to this section does not affect:
(a) The authority of the Department to review materials that are possessed or received by an offender, including, but not limited to, publications, for any other lawful purpose or reason; or
(b) The procedures used by the Department to conduct such reviews.
4. The Department and its officers, employees and independent contractors are immune from liability for damages arising from an act or omission that allows an offender to possess or receive a publication that is prohibited pursuant to this section.
5. As used in this section:
(a) "Criminal gang" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 213.1263.
(b) "Publication" means a book, magazine, newsletter, bulletin, pamphlet or other similar item as determined by the Director.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1640; A 2017, 1066)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.367 - Director to establish program for testing of offenders for use of alcohol and controlled substances.

1. The Director shall establish a program, to be carried out within each facility and institution, that provides for periodic testing of offenders for use of alcohol and controlled substances. The program must provide that the selection of offenders to be tested for use of alcohol and controlled substances must be made on a random basis.
2. The Director shall adopt, with the approval of the Board, regulations governing the operation of the program. The regulations must set forth the procedure for testing, including, but not limited to:
(a) The types of tests to be used;
(b) The manner in which a sample for a test is to be obtained;
(c) The persons who are authorized to obtain a sample for a test; and
(d) The method for preserving the chain of custody of a sample obtained for a test.
3. The Department shall inform the offenders in each facility and institution of the requirement to submit to a test and the sanctions for refusing or failing to submit to a test and for using alcohol or a controlled substance. The Department may provide this information through a general notice posted or distributed in each facility and institution.
4. The Department may sanction, pursuant to subsection 5, an offender:
(a) Who refuses or fails to submit to a test;
(b) Whose test detects alcohol or a controlled substance;
(c) Who manufactures, possesses, uses, sells, supplies, provides, distributes, conceals or stores alcohol or a controlled substance; or
(d) Who attempts to manufacture, possess, use, sell, supply, provide, distribute, conceal or store alcohol or a controlled substance.
5. In addition to any other sanction or penalty that may be imposed pursuant to law or regulation, an offender who violates subsection 4 may be sanctioned by:
(a) Forfeiture of all deductions of time earned by the offender before commission of the violation or forfeiture of such part of those deductions as the Director considers just, pursuant to NRS 209.451; and
(b) Denial of the privilege to have visitors for a specified period, as determined by the Director.
6. If alcohol or a controlled substance is found in a facility or institution, the Director may order that for a specified period:
(a) The offenders housed in the general area where the alcohol or controlled substance is found; or
(b) All offenders in the facility or institution,
be confined to their cells or housing units or be denied the privilege to have visitors, or both.
7. The establishment of the program to test offenders for use of alcohol and controlled substances pursuant to this section does not affect:
(a) The authority of the Department to test an offender for use of alcohol or a controlled substance for any other lawful purpose or reason; or
(b) The procedures used by the Department to conduct such tests.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1641)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.368 - Solitary confinement: Regulations.

The Director shall adopt, with the approval of the Board, such regulations as are necessary to ensure that solitary confinement may only be used:
1. As a last resort, when the offender must be separated from the general population in a secure environment;
2. In the least restrictive manner; and
3. For the shortest period of time safely possible.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 2428)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.3683 - Solitary confinement: Limitation on placement of offender in solitary confinement; removal of offender from solitary confinement; rights and privileges of offender placed in solitary confinement.

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 209.3685 or 209.369, the Department or a private facility or institution shall not place an offender in solitary confinement:
(a) For a period which exceeds 15 consecutive days;
(b) Within 90 days of the date on which the offender is projected to be released from the custody of the Department; or
(c) If the offender has a serious mental illness or other significant mental impairment, unless a provider of health care orders the solitary confinement for the safety of the offender, staff or any other person.
2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 209.369, the Department may remove an offender from solitary confinement at any time if the offender has demonstrated good behavior.
3. If an offender is placed in solitary confinement, the offender must, while placed in solitary confinement, be afforded the same privileges identified in paragraph (b) of subsection 5 of NRS 209.369 as are afforded to an offender placed in disciplinary segregation.
4. The Department shall ensure that each offender placed in solitary confinement receives a health and welfare check conducted at least once each day by a provider of health care at his or her cell.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 2428)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.375 - Care of offender who is pregnant: Access to certain services required; adoption of certain policies concerning care of offenders who are pregnant required; regulations.

1. The Department shall provide an offender who is pregnant and in the custody of the Department access to necessary medical and behavioral health care services, including, without limitation, obstetrical services.
2. Subject to the approval of the Director, the warden of each institution and the manager of each facility shall adopt a policy for the prenatal and postnatal care of offenders. Any such policy must be consistent with any other applicable laws or regulations.
3. A policy adopted pursuant to subsection 2 must include, without limitation:
(a) A requirement that each offender who is pregnant receive:
(1) Training, educational programming or written materials concerning prenatal care, pregnancy, hygiene and health concerns relating to pregnancy, the impact of alcohol and drugs on a fetus, labor, the care of newborns and the postpartum period;
(2) Prenatal vitamins or supplements, as deemed necessary by the Medical Director;
(3) A diet containing the nutrients necessary to maintain a healthy pregnancy, as deemed necessary by the Medical Director;
(4) Any hygiene products which are reasonably necessary and specifically designed for a person who is pregnant; and
(5) Counseling regarding parenting skills; and
(b) A requirement that each offender who delivers a baby while in the custody of the Department:
(1) Receives appropriate, trauma-informed medical care at the institution or facility, including, without limitation, treatment for postpartum depression;
(2) Receives counseling regarding parenting skills upon the request of the offender; and
(3) To be provided an opportunity to bond with a baby delivered while in the custody of the Department for a minimum period of not less than 72 hours after delivery.
4. The counseling and written materials required by subsection 3 must be communicated or written in easily understood language.
5. The Department shall develop and adopt a policy to be carried out in each institution and facility concerning the physical and mental health of offenders who are pregnant. In developing such a policy, the Department shall take into consideration the impact of certain actions on the offender and the fetus, including, without limitation, the impact of:
(a) The use of restraints; and
(b) An invasive body cavity search.
6. The Department shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
7. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require an institution or facility to adopt any policy that does not comply with federal law or regulation.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 2921)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.376 - Care of offender who is pregnant: Limitations on use of restraints on offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or in the postpartum period; report.

1. No restraints of any kind may be used on an offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or in the postpartum period, unless there are compelling reasons to believe that the offender presents:
(a) A serious and immediate threat of harm to herself, staff or others; or
(b) A substantial flight risk and cannot be reasonably confined by other means.
2. If an offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or in the postpartum period is restrained, only the least restrictive restraints which are necessary to ensure safety and security may be used.
3. A correctional staff member who orders the use of restraints on an offender who is pregnant or in the postpartum period shall submit a written report to the warden of the institution or manager of the facility. The report must:
(a) Describe the reasons for the use of the restraints on the offender; and
(b) Be submitted to the warden or manager within 5 hours after the use of the restraints.
4. As used in this section:
(a) "Postpartum period" means the period of time an offender is recuperating from delivering a baby, as determined by the physician of the offender, immediately following delivery and directly related to the birth, including the period an offender is in a hospital or infirmary after birth.
(b) "Restraints" means any physical restraint or mechanical device used to control the movement of the limbs of a person, including, without limitation, flex cuffs, soft restraints, hard metal handcuffs, a black box, Chubb cuffs, leg irons, belly chains, a security tether chain or a convex shield.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 307; A 2023, 2922)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.381 - Diet, housing and hygiene of offenders; medical and dental services of institutions and facilities.

1. Each offender in an institution or facility of the Department must be provided a healthful diet and appropriate, sanitary housing.
2. The Director with the approval of the Board shall establish standards for personal hygiene of offenders and for the medical and dental services of each institution or facility.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 850; A 1983, 722)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.3813 - Access to prescription medication.

If an offender in the custody of the Department requires prescription medication for any physical or mental illness, the Department shall ensure that:
1. If the prescription is new, the prescription is transmitted to a licensed pharmacy and filled as soon as possible; or
2. If the prescription is a refill, the prescription is refilled on or before the date on which the current supply of the prescription medication is exhausted.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 1093)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.3814 - Completion of medical release of information form by offender; notification of certain persons if offender is hospitalized for or diagnosed with critical medical condition.

1. The Department shall ensure that each offender:
(a) Completes a medical release of information form at the time of intake; and
(b) Has the ability to update a completed medical release of information form as necessary.
2. If an offender in the custody of the Department is hospitalized for or diagnosed with a critical medical condition which requires the offender to stay in a medical facility overnight, the Department shall, within 24 hours after such hospitalization or diagnosis, attempt to inform all persons authorized by the current medical release of information form about the health status of the offender.
3. If an offender in the custody of the Department is hospitalized for or diagnosed with a critical medical condition which does not require the offender to stay in a medical facility overnight, the Department shall, within 4 hours after the return of the offender to the institution or facility at which the offender is incarcerated, provide the offender with the opportunity to make a telephone call to a friend, relative or other person to inform the person about the health status of the offender.
4. As used in this section:
(a) "Critical medical condition" means a condition diagnosed by a provider of health care that:
(1) Is terminal;
(2) Requires life-sustaining medical treatment;
(3) Involves a significant risk of death; or
(4) Involves extreme physical illness, including, without limitation, an extreme physical illness resulting from a drug or alcohol overdose.
(b) "Drug or alcohol overdose" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 453C.150.
(c) "Medical facility" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0151.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 1093)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections › NRS 209.3815 - Autopsy of offenders.

The Director, in consultation with the Medical Director and the Inspector General of the Department, shall request the coroner, or any other person so authorized, to conduct an autopsy of any offender who dies while in the custody of the Department, if the next of kin:
1. Consents to the autopsy; or
2. Does not notify the Director of any objection to the autopsy within 72 hours after the death.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 1883; A 2017, 357)