Bill Text: MS HB764 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Department of Corrections; authorize to contract with Leflore County for regional jail.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [HB764 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-HB764-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Corrections; County Affairs
By: Representatives Whittington, Howell, Taylor
House Bill 764
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-931, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO CONTRACT WITH THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FOR THE HOUSING OF STATE INMATES AT A REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 47-5-931, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-931. (1) The Department of Corrections, in its discretion, may contract with the board of supervisors of one or more counties and/or with a regional facility operated by one or more counties, to provide for housing, care and control of offenders who are in the custody of the State of Mississippi. Any facility owned or leased by a county or counties for this purpose shall be designed, constructed, operated and maintained in accordance with American Correctional Association standards, and shall comply with all constitutional standards of the United States and the State of Mississippi, and with all court orders that may now or hereinafter be applicable to the facility. If the Department of Corrections contracts with more than one (1) county to house state offenders in county correctional facilities, excluding a regional facility, then the first of such facilities shall be constructed in Sharkey County and the second of such facilities shall be constructed in Jefferson County.
(2) The Department of
Corrections shall contract with the board of supervisors of the following
counties to house state inmates in regional facilities: (a) Marion and
Walthall Counties; (b) Carroll and Montgomery Counties; (c) Stone and Pearl
River Counties; (d) Winston and Choctaw Counties; (e) Kemper and Neshoba
Counties; (f) Holmes County and any contiguous county in which there is located
an unapproved jail; and (g) Bolivar County and any contiguous county in which
there is located an unapproved jail. The Department of Corrections may
contract with the board of supervisors of the following counties to house state
inmates in regional facilities: (a) Yazoo County, (b) Chickasaw County, (c)
George and Greene Counties, (d) Washington County, (e) Hinds County, * * *
(f) Alcorn County, and (g)
Leflore County. The Department of Corrections shall decide the order of
priority of the counties listed in this subsection with which it will contract
for the housing of state inmates. For the purposes of this subsection, the
term "unapproved jail" means any jail that the local grand jury
determines should be condemned or has found to be of substandard condition or
in need of substantial repair or reconstruction.
(3) In addition to the offenders authorized to be housed under subsection (1) of this section, the Department of Corrections may contract with the Kemper and Neshoba regional facility to provide for housing, care and control of not more than seventy-five (75) additional offenders who are in the custody of the State of Mississippi.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.
