Title 41, State Government

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Academy" means the correctional officer training academy. 2. "Board" means the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. 3. "Correctional officer" means a person, other than an elected official, who is employed…

A. The director shall: 1. Operate a correctional officer training academy. 2. Establish and maintain a correctional officer training program at the academy. B. The director may: 1. Employ personnel and faculty as may be necessary to perform the academy's functions and operate the…

The director shall establish reasonable tuition and fees to cover the costs of all aspects of training provided to enrollees. An employing agency shall pay all of the tuition and fees of its employees or its recruit trainees attending the academy. The director shall deposit these…

A. The director, in consultation with the director of the department of administration and the chief executive officer of the Arizona commerce authority, may establish programs for the employment of offenders by private employers and enter into agreements with private employers u…

An offender may be employed under this article only on a voluntary basis and only after the offender has been informed of the conditions of the offender's employment.

A. An offender employed under this article is not eligible for unemployment compensation benefits under title 23, chapter 4. B. An enterprise operating on correctional facility premises under this article is subject to all laws and rules otherwise governing the operation of simil…

A. If an agreement is entered into between the director and a private employer under this article to provide employment for prisoners and the program is federally certified as a prison industry enhancement program, the agreement shall provide that an employed prisoner shall be pa…

For the purposes of this article, "private prison" means any privately owned prison that does not contract exclusively with the state department of corrections and is primarily directed at housing adult prisoners who are sentenced to serve a term of detention or incarceration by …

A. No private prison may operate in this state unless the private contractor complies with this section. B. A private prison shall provide the department of administration with financial responsibility to cover this state's potential liability in the amount of ten million dollars…

A. Private prisons shall maintain photographs and fingerprints on site of all prisoners incarcerated in the facility. B. Before another state transfers prisoners to a private prison in this state, the private prison housing prisoners under incarceration orders from a court of ano…

If a prisoner in a private prison who was sentenced by a court in another state is to be released from incarceration, the private prison contractor shall transfer or return the prisoner to the state where the prisoner was sentenced before releasing the prisoner.