Title 41, State Government

A. An inmate who has served not less than six months of the sentence imposed by the court is eligible for the home arrest program if the inmate: 1. Meets the following criteria: (a) Was convicted of committing a class 4, 5 or 6 felony not involving a dangerous offense. (b) Was no…

A. On or before December 1 each year, the director shall report on the drug and alcohol treatment programs available to offenders in this state who are under the jurisdiction of the department. The report shall include: 1. A description of each program, including whether the prog…

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any person who is convicted of a violent crime as defined in section 13-901.03 that is committed while the person is under the influence of marijuana, a dangerous drug or a narcotic drug as defined in section 13-3401 is not eligible for pr…

A. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if a prisoner has been convicted of the possession or use of marijuana pursuant to section 13-3405, subsection A, paragraph 1, possession or use of a dangerous drug pursuant to section 13-3407, subsection A, paragraph 1 or possession or…

A. The Arizona parents commission on drug education and prevention is established. The commission shall consist of nine members. The members of the commission shall be appointed by the governor within sixty days of the effective date of this section and shall serve two year terms…

A. The director may authorize an eligible inmate who is within ninety days of the inmate's earliest release date to participate in a community reentry work program. The director shall adopt rules to implement the community reentry work program, including eligibility criteria for …

A. Before incurring any obligation for the establishment of any correctional facility or any change of use of a correctional facility, the department shall give at least forty-five days' written notice to all of the following: 1. Each real property owner, as shown on the last ass…

A. The director shall develop, implement and maintain a graduated intervention policy for offenders who violate a condition of community supervision. The policy must include guidelines for using graduated interventions on an offender who commits a technical violation of a conditi…

A. The state department of corrections may accept and expend federal funds or private grants of funds, gifts and legacies and may accept, manage or dispose of property, to effectuate the purposes of this article. The director of the state department of corrections shall have over…

A. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in order to facilitate prison and inmate management the director, assistant directors, wardens and deputy wardens of the state department of corrections on request shall have access to any prisoner medical history information that is ma…

A. The director may establish and operate correctional facilities for persons who are under eighteen years of age and who are committed to the state department of corrections. The juvenile inmates shall be kept in a separate section from adult inmates. B. The director shall requi…

If a prisoner in a secure care facility requires health care services that the department, the facility or a private prison provider contracted by the department cannot provide, the department shall pay approved claims from a facility or provider that provides these services as f…

A. The department may enter into agreements with the federal government, other states or agencies of the federal government or other states for such compensation upon which they agree to accept or deliver adult offenders or to administer correctional programs. Notwithstanding the…

A. On publication, any request for proposals shall be provided to the joint legislative budget committee for its review. B. To be considered for an award of a contract, the proposer must demonstrate that it has: 1. The qualifications, operations and management experience and expe…

A. Before expanding an existing minimum or medium security level prison or before establishing a new minimum or medium security level prison, the director shall give consideration to contracting for private prisons for the incarceration of: 1. Prisoners convicted of offenses purs…

A private contractor that contracts with any governmental entity to provide detention or incarceration services for offenders shall be liable for the cost of any emergency, public safety or security services provided to the contractor by the state or any political subdivision of …

A. If a person is arrested within this state for any crime described in subsection C of this section, the clerk of the court in which the legal proceedings relating to the crime are held shall prepare an itemized claim against the private prison for the court costs and any other …

(L90, ch 344, sec 2.) All personnel employed by the department of corrections who meet the following criteria shall be considered to be engaged in hazardous duty: 1. Those whose duties involve the supervision, guarding or custody of inmates, pursuit and recapture of escapees or s…

An officer or employee of the New Mexico department of corrections who has in his custody, pursuant to New Mexico law, a ward, offender or prisoner of the state of New Mexico whom he is transporting from a facility in New Mexico to another point in New Mexico via Arizona or to a …

A. The state department of corrections shall provide an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state with relevant documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining postrelease employment and shall coordinate with the depar…

A. The department may store an inmate's medical records electronically. B. Notwithstanding any other law, if the department stores an inmate's medical records electronically, the department is not required to keep and may dispose of any physical copies of an inmate's medical reco…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall make reasonable efforts to identify incarcerated individuals who are veterans in this state. B. On a monthly basis and to the extent practicable, the state department of corrections shall provide to the department of veterans…

The department shall consist of such number of divisions or units as may be established by the director. Each such division or unit shall be under the supervision of a person appointed by the director.

A. The department shall establish a community treatment program for imprisoned women and their children. Subject to the availability of monies, the department shall contract with an experienced nonprofit entity to establish and operate a community treatment center and may transfe…

A. The director may: 1. Establish and operate facilities to be known as community correctional centers. 2. Transfer inmates whose terms of imprisonment have been fixed from the state prisons and facilities of the department to community correctional centers and place inmates plac…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Arizona correctional industries" means the Arizona correctional industries program. 2. "Department" means the state department of corrections. 3. Director" means the director of the state department of corrections.

A. Arizona correctional industries may purchase raw materials, components and supplies for use in the manufacture of products for sale or provide services. In support of its retail operation, Arizona correctional industries may purchase or consign items for sale to the public tha…

A. Subject to legislative appropriation, the director shall establish, regulate, operate and terminate, if appropriate, Arizona correctional industries pursuant to this article. B. The department may enter into contracts and agreements with any person or persons for the acquisiti…

A. The director may establish a revolving fund to be used to pay the expenses required: 1. For the purchase of raw materials, components and supplies to be used for the production of food and other items to be sold by the department's Arizona correctional industries. 2. For the c…

A. The director shall compensate prisoners for their services pursuant to section 31-254. B. The director or his designee may contract with any state agency, political subdivision or state department or any private person, firm, corporation or association to provide services or l…

In an action for damages that a prisoner brings against a private person, firm, corporation or association that is engaged in a contract pursuant to section 41-1624.01 for injury or death arising from the prisoner's work in Arizona correctional industries, the prisoner may not in…

The department shall fix and determine the prices at which all articles, services or products manufactured or produced shall be furnished or sold. The prices shall be uniform and nondiscriminating to all agencies of this state. The prices may be fixed and determined in any amount…

The department shall cause to be prepared, at such times as it may determine, consistent with sound marketing principles, catalogues containing the description of all articles and products manufactured or produced by it pursuant to the provisions of this article, copies of which …

A. The articles or products manufactured or produced or services provided by Arizona correctional industries in accordance with the provisions of this article shall be devoted to both: 1. Fulfilling the requirements of the offices, departments, institutions and agencies of the st…

Any person who violates any provision of this article, is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.

A. The corrections fund is established and consists of monies received from the distribution provided pursuant to section 42-3104. The state department of corrections shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation. B. Monies in the correcti…

The prison construction and operations fund is established consisting of monies received pursuant to sections 5-395.01, 5-396, 5-397, 28-1381, 28-1382, 28-1383, 28-8284, 28-8286, 28-8287 and 28-8288. The state department of corrections shall administer the fund. Monies in the fun…

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…