Bill Text: MS SB2548 | 2013 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Country/regional correctional facilities; authorize the incarceration of additional offenders in such facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-03-07 - Died In Committee [SB2548 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-SB2548-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Corrections; Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Jackson (32nd)
Senate Bill 2548
(As Passed the Senate)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-931, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE INCARCERATION OF ADDITIONAL OFFENDERS AT COUNTY OR REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES; 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, and (f) Alcorn
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) * * * male 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, 2013.
