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

(a) There is created in accordance with §§ 19-4-801 — 19-4-805, and the Revenue Classification Law, § 19-40-101 et seq., a cash fund entitled the Division of Correction Nontax Revenue Receipts Fund to consist of receipts for telephone calls from coinless telephones located on Div…

(a) The Division of Correction may report to the House Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs no later than December 1 of each year regarding its efforts in rehabilitating the inmate population. (b)…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or Division of Correction's commitment which may exist to the contrary, the Board of Corrections shall not increase any reimbursement rate for payments made to any county for the purpose of reimbursing the expenses of the care and custod…

(a) Receipts from cities or counties reimbursed to the Division of Correction for daily care of city or county prisoners shall be accounted for separately. (b) The debt service of such receipts shall be used for payment of debt service on bonds, loans, or any other instruments us…

There is created and established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a fund to be known as the “Community Correction Revolving Fund”, which shall consist of those special revenues as specified in § 19-42-201(31) …

(a) The Division of Community Correction shall administer, in cooperation with the circuit courts, the provision of probation services as prescribed by the circuit courts. (b) The division shall establish an acceptable procedure that ensures the selection of qualified applicants …

(a) (1) In accordance with the rules and procedures promulgated by the Board of Corrections, the Director of the Division of Correction shall assign a newly committed inmate to an appropriate facility of the Division of Correction.(2) The director may transfer an inmate from one …

The Division of Correction and the Division of Community Correction may provide services, furnishings, equipment, and office space to assist the Post-Prison Transfer Board in fulfilling the purposes for which the board was created by law.

(a) The following sections of the Division of Correction's official Emergency Preparedness Manual are confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.:(1) Command Post Checklist;(2) Command Notifications;(3) Int…

(a) The Board of Corrections may promulgate rules to allow inmates to participate in a meritorious furlough program which include a requirement that the county sheriff and the chief of police of the city or town, if applicable, shall be notified if an inmate will be present withi…

(a) The Division of Community Correction shall cooperate with and upon request make presentations and provide various reports, to the extent the division's budget will allow, to the Legislative Council concerning division policy and criteria on discretionary offender programs and…

(a) The Division of Correction and the Division of Community Correction may enter into professional services contracts for medical services for a contract period not to exceed ten (10) years. (b) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the professional services cont…

(1) When a Department of Corrections employee dies while still employed with the department, retires from service with at least twenty (20) years of service, or retires due to an injury obtained in the line of duty, in recognition of and appreciation for the service of the retiri…

(a) The Division of Community Correction may receive money from any source to be deposited into the Accountability Court Fund to be used for adult and juvenile specialty court programs as defined under § 16-10-139, based upon a formula to be developed by the Arkansas Judicial Cou…

(a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the Division of Correction shall post on the Division of Correction's website the following information concerning an inmate:(1) The offense and sentence for any conviction for which the inmate is incarcerated, including:(A) Whether the…

(a) The Division of Community Correction shall track a person under its supervision who is serving a suspended sentence and notify the prosecuting attorney with jurisdiction over the person's suspended sentence if the division knows that the person has not complied with the terms…

(a) A rule implemented by the Board of Corrections, Division of Correction, Division of Community Correction, or the Post-Prison Transfer Board pertaining to this act shall be approved by the appropriate legislative committee before becoming effective. (b) Any administrative dire…

(a) The following sections of the Division of Community Correction's official Emergency Preparedness Manual are confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.:(1) Command Post Checklist;(2) Command Notificatio…

For the purposes of maintaining a sufficiently trained and specialized staff of community supervision officers, the Division of Community Correction shall establish staffing guidelines using evidence-based practices to develop ratios between the number of high-risk, medium-risk, …

(a) Subject to the approval of the Board of Corrections, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections may authorize the payment of a death benefit from special revenues held by the Department of Corrections or its various divisions to any department employee killed in the line …

The Division of Correction may enter into a cooperative agreement with a qualified state treatment and assessment agency to conduct assessments of juveniles in the custody of the division who are required to register as sex offenders under § 9-35-434 and pay for services upon rec…

(a) As used in this section, “Warrant Service Officer Program” means the program of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorizing state and local law enforcement officers to serve and execute administrative warrants under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8…

This subchapter shall be known as the “Pay-for-Success Act”.

(a) The General Assembly finds that:(1) Incarceration and reincarceration are costly for the government and for taxpayers;(2) Certain intervention measures have been found to reduce reincarceration rates;(3) Pay-for-success contracts can serve as an effective tool for addressing …

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Incarcerated” means the condition of being committed to a state correctional facility; and(2) “Pay-for-success program” means a program in which the Division of Community Correction pays for intervention services only if certain performance tar…

(a) The Division of Community Correction may enter into an agreement with entities, including without limitation licensed or accredited, as applicable, community-based providers specializing in behavioral health, case management, and job placement services, and two-year or four-y…

(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) 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…

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…