Title 12 — Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs

(a) (1) The Division of Correction, with the approval of the Board of Corrections, shall provide appropriate incarceration facilities for women, youthful offenders, and other adult offenders committed to the division by the courts of this state.(2) The division shall also provide…

(a) The Department of Correction shall provide a death chamber within such facility or institution of the department as may be designated by the Director of the Department of Correction with the approval of the Board of Corrections. (b) The death chamber shall have all the necess…

A.C.A. § 12-28-103Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) The Post-Prison Transfer Board shall be the transferring authority for parole and post-release supervision for the units of the Department of Corrections and shall make recommendations to the Governor in cases from the criminal courts that, in the board's opinion, the defenda…

(a) (1) Any person incarcerated by the Division of Correction may be permitted to remain within a treatment facility operated by the division, if serious physical or mental disorders or disabilities exist, until release to a similar treatment setting outside of the division can b…

(a) (1) The Division of Correction may design and install high-voltage electrified security fence systems at all existing and proposed medium and maximum security prisons.(2) However, at the time of installation there shall be posted universal danger signs on all sides of the sys…

(a) As provided for in § 12-28-101, the Division of Correction shall provide education as well as training for inmates who want to acquire skills for employment upon release. (b) (1) The division shall identify high-demand vocations and careers and shall accordingly create traini…

(a) The Department of Corrections shall conduct an audit of the number and types of firearms and number and types of ammunition owned by and in the possession of the correctional facilities of the department annually and shall send a copy of the audit to the Secretary of the Depa…

(a) (1) Within ninety (90) days of the end of each state fiscal year, the Director of the Division of Correction shall submit to the Legislative Council a report of all direct and indirect costs incurred for housing and caring for inmates incarcerated in the Division of Correctio…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Changing room” means the same as defined under § 22-3-2201;(2) (A) “Correctional facility” means a state correctional facility that has the power to detain or restrain a person under the laws of the state, including without limitation facilities o…

A.C.A. § 12-28-201Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

This subchapter shall be known as the “Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Board” means the Board of Corrections;(2) “County backlog” means those inmates sentenced to the Division of Correction who are being housed in the county jails until space is available in a prison;(3) “Prison” means a correctional facility oper…

(a) (1) Whenever the population of the prison system exceeds ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity for thirty (30) consecutive days, or whenever the number of inmates on the county jail backlog exceeds five hundred (500) inmates, the Board of Corrections may declare a …

(a) (1) When the Board of Corrections declares a prison overcrowding state of emergency due to exceeding ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity and notifies the Director of the Division of Correction of the emergency as authorized, the director shall certify to the boar…

(a) The Board of Corrections may declare succeeding prison overcrowding states of emergency at any time when the prison population exceeds ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity of the prison system, but these successive states of emergency shall not be declared more of…

At any time during a declared prison overcrowding state of emergency, the Board of Corrections may declare the prison overcrowding state of emergency to be ended.

This subchapter shall be referred to and may be cited as the “Arkansas Boot Camp Act”.

(1) The General Assembly finds that:(1) The cost of incarcerating the expanding number of offenders in conventional penitentiaries is skyrocketing, bringing added fiscal pressures on the state;(2) Some inmates may be effectively punished in a more affordable manner through the ex…

(a) The Board of Corrections shall develop and implement a boot camp program designed to reduce the inmate population by diverting eligible offenders from long-term incarceration. (b) This diversion shall involve successful completion of, at a minimum, a sixty-day program of inte…

Appropriate inmates shall be chosen for the boot camp program established by this subchapter in accordance with guidelines to be adopted by the Board of Corrections. These guidelines must include a risk profile system to be used in selecting inmates eligible for assignment to the…

This subchapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish the intent and purposes of the General Assembly in adopting it and shall be the sole authority required for the accomplishment of these purposes. To this end, it shall not be necessary to comply with general provisions of…