Title 31 — Prisons and Prisoners
4 chapters · 124 sections in this title.
A.R.S. § 31-101 Common jails; duty of sheriff; use of jails
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The common jails in the several counties and county jails under the jurisdiction of county jail districts shall be kept by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are respectively located. The jails shall be used for detention of persons committed to them in accordance with th…
A.R.S. § 31-104 Employment of temporary guards
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The sheriff may, when necessary, with the written consent of the county board of supervisors, employ temporary guards for protection of the county jail or safekeeping of prisoners, the expenses of which shall be a county charge or, if a county jail district has been established, …
A.R.S. § 31-105 Designation of jail in contiguous county; revocation of designation
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A. If there is no jail in the county, or when a jail becomes unfit or unsafe for confinement of prisoners, the judge of the superior court may, by written order filed with the clerk of the court, designate the jail of a contiguous county for confinement of prisoners at the expens…
A.R.S. § 31-106 Disease in jail; removal of prisoners
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When a pestilence or contagious disease occurs in or near a jail and the physician in attendance certifies that it is liable to endanger the health of the prisoners, the judge of the superior court may, by an order in writing, designate a safe and convenient place in the county, …
A.R.S. § 31-107 Emergency removal of prisoners
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When a county jail or building contiguous to it is on fire and there is reason to apprehend that the prisoners may be injured or endangered, the sheriff shall remove them to a safe and convenient place and there confine them as long as necessary.
A.R.S. § 31-121 Duty of sheriff to receive and provide for prisoners; contracts for furnishing food; city or town prisoners; employment; canteens; special services fund; insurance; education programs
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A. The sheriff shall receive all persons who are committed to jail by competent authority and provide them with necessary food, clothing and bedding, the cost of which shall be a county charge or, if a county jail district has been established, a charge of the district, except as…
A.R.S. § 31-122 Receiving and keeping federal prisoners
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A. The sheriff may receive and keep in the county jail any prisoner committed thereto by process or order issued under the authority of the United States until the prisoner is discharged according to law as if he had been committed under process issued under the authority of the …
A.R.S. § 31-123 Confinement of person committed to jail
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A prisoner committed to the county jail for trial or for examination, or upon conviction for a public offense, shall be actually confined in the jail until he is legally discharged. If the prisoner is permitted to go at large, except by lawful order or process, or pursuant to the…
A.R.S. § 31-124 Segregation of prisoners; males and females; minors and adults
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A. Male and female prisoners shall not be kept or placed in the same room. B. A person under the age of eighteen years shall not be confined in the same section of any jail or prison in which adult prisoners are confined.
A.R.S. § 31-125 Duty of sheriff to deliver judicial papers to prisoner
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When a paper in a judicial proceeding is directed to a prisoner in the custody of a sheriff and is served upon the sheriff, he shall forthwith deliver it to the prisoner with a notation thereon of the time of service. If the sheriff neglects to do so he is liable to the prisoner …
A.R.S. § 31-126 Examination of certain prisoners for mental disorder
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When a person confined in the county jail upon arrest for or conviction of a misdemeanor manifests symptoms of a mental disorder, the sheriff shall notify a licensed physician who shall examine the person. If in the judgment of a licensed physician the person is suffering from a …
A.R.S. § 31-127 Abuse of prisoner; classification
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A public officer who with criminal negligence is guilty of inhumanity or oppression toward a prisoner under his care or in his custody is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
A.R.S. § 31-128 Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification
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A person not authorized by law who, without permission of the officer in charge of a jail, communicates with a person imprisoned or detained therein, or who takes any letter, writing, literature or reading matter to or from a person imprisoned or detained therein, is guilty of a …
A.R.S. § 31-129 Taking prohibited articles into jail; violation; classification; definitions
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A. A person not authorized by law who knowingly takes into a jail or the grounds belonging to the jail any marijuana, narcotic drug or dangerous drug, or intoxicating liquor of any kind, or firearms, weapons or explosives of any kind is guilty of a class 5 felony. B. For the purp…
A.R.S. § 31-130 Destruction of or injury to public jail; classification
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A person who intentionally and without lawful authority breaks, pulls down or otherwise destroys or injures a public jail or other place of confinement is guilty of a class 5 felony.
A.R.S. § 31-131 Operation of inmate industry program; special services fund; application of earnings
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A. On approval of the county board of supervisors, the sheriff may operate an inmate industry program and for that purpose may employ personnel, purchase equipment and incur other necessary expenses for the operation and management of the program, making payment therefor through …
A.R.S. § 31-132 Duty to deliver medical records
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Prior to or at the same time a prisoner is transferred from a county jail facility to a state department of corrections facility by a county, a copy of the prisoner's county jail medical record file, including the prisoner's mental health file, or a standardized medical record su…
A.R.S. § 31-141 Enforcement of sentence imposing hard labor; employment of prisoners; definition
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A. If a person is sentenced to serve a certain number of days in a county jail, the court imposing the sentence may order, in addition to any other sentence authorized by law, that the defendant be kept at hard labor during the term of the sentence, or for any part of such senten…
A.R.S. § 31-142 Use of prisoners on public works
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A. The sheriff may, with the consent of the board of supervisors, require prisoners under his charge who are capable of hard labor to be employed on the public streets, highways or other public works where they will not compete with free labor in the county. B. If a person is sen…
A.R.S. § 31-143 Use of prisoners by county engineer
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The county engineer shall receive and work prisoners sentenced to hard labor who are authorized by the board of supervisors to be employed. The engineer may exercise the powers of a constable to transport, supervise and control available numbers of prisoners released to him for w…
A.R.S. § 31-144 Double time allowance for work done outside jail as trusty
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A. A prisoner in a city, town or county jail, while working on the public streets, highways or other public works as a trusty outside the jail without requiring armed guards, or while holding a position of trust either within or without the jail, shall be allowed double time whil…
A.R.S. § 31-145 Allowance for hard labor in reduction of fine
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A. A prisoner sentenced to pay a fine shall be allowed not to exceed fifty dollars per day credited to the fine for each day he is employed at hard labor. B. A person committed for nonpayment of a fine shall be given credit toward payment for each day of imprisonment at the rate …
A.R.S. § 31-146 Notice of discharge of prisoners sentenced to pay fine or to be imprisoned until payment made
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Within five days after the end of each week, the officer having custody of prisoners who have been sentenced to pay a fine and ordered imprisoned until the fine is paid shall give notice to the committing court of all discharges during the week ending at midnight of the preceding…
A.R.S. § 31-161 Inmate health care; costs
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A. Subject to the approval of the county board of supervisors or the board of directors of a county jail district, the sheriff may charge each inmate who is committed to jail by competent authority a reasonable fee or copayment of not more than ten dollars for each inmate initiat…
A.R.S. § 31-162 Inmate health services fund; audit
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A. The inmate health services fund is established in each county treasury consisting of monies received pursuant to section 31-161. The sheriff shall administer the fund. B. The board of supervisors shall approve the use of fund monies to administer or provide health services to …
A.R.S. § 31-163 Subrogation
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A. If a county provides health services to an inmate or a juvenile detainee, the county has the right of subrogation against the individual's right of recovery from any source to the extent of the costs of services provided. B. The county is entitled to a lien for the charges for…
A.R.S. § 31-164 Inmate health insurance pools
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A. The board of supervisors of two or more counties or the board of directors of two or more county jail districts may enter into contracts or agreements pursuant to section 11-952.01 to jointly purchase insurance or to pool retention of their risks for inmate health care and to …
A.R.S. § 31-165 Inmate medical services; rate structure
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If an inmate in a county jail or a person who, but for the circumstances, would otherwise be treated in the county jail requires health care services that the county jail cannot provide, the county shall pay claims approved by the county from a facility or provider that provides …