Title 24, Prisoners and Their Treatment.

(a) A prison industry shall employ eligible prisoners in all entry-level positions to the extent feasible. (b) Prisoners employed in a prison industry shall not work more than 40 hours per week, except that prisoners may volunteer to work overtime hours for overtime payment at 1 …

Prisoners who apply and are eligible for employment in a prison industry shall have no right to obtain employment in the industry. Prisoners employed in a prison industry shall not be regarded as having any right concerning that employment, shall not be regarded as District emplo…

(a) All prisoners employed by a prison industry shall be paid wages which shall be established by the Director and approved by the Mayor. All prisoners employed by a prison industry that is approved under the PIE Program shall be paid no less than the prevailing wage for work of …

(a) Wages paid to prisoners employed by a prison industry shall be considered taxable income for purposes of subchapter I of Chapter 18 of Title 47. (b) Wages paid to prisoners employed by a prison industry wholly owned and operated by the District shall be paid from the Fund. Wa…

(a) The requirements of Chapter 15 of Title 32 shall apply to prisoners employed in any prison industries program that is approved under the PIE Program. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring Workers’ Compensation Act or comparable insurance benefits for prisone…

(a) The Director shall provide the Mayor and the Council with an annual report on the prison industries program and the Fund no later than December 1 of each year for the fiscal year ending September 30 of the preceding year. (b) The report shall be prepared according to generall…

The Mayor is authorized to retain any accumulated profits from a prison industries program for the purpose of acquiring or improving personal property, or to increase working capital to planned operating levels in a prison industries program. The Mayor is also authorized to retai…

All assets which, on May 8, 1996, are components of the Correctional Industries Fund, as created by § 24-271 [repealed], shall be transferred to the Fund created in § 24-231.02.

There is hereby authorized to be established in the District of Columbia a work release program under which any person who is: (1) convicted of a misdemeanor or of violating a municipal regulation or an act of Congress in the nature of a municipal regulation, and is sentenced to …

At the time of imposition of sentence, the probation officers of the court or the Director of the Department of Corrections, may recommend to, or the person sentenced may request, the sentencing court that such person be granted the privilege of work release. At any time subseque…

The Director of the Department of Corrections shall state in writing the terms and conditions under which a person granted work release privileges may be released from actual custody during the time necessary to proceed to the person’s place of employment or other authorized plac…

The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized to promulgate from time to time such rules and regulations as it deems necessary for the administration by the Department of Corrections of the work release program.

(a) The Director of the Department of Corrections may suspend or revoke the work release privilege for any breach of discipline or infraction of institution regulations. The Court may revoke the work release privilege at any time, either upon its own motion or upon recommendation…

The Mayor is authorized to include in individual work release plans provisions for the collection of the wages, salary, earnings, and other income of each gainfully employed prisoner when paid, or require that the same be surrendered when received, less payroll deductions require…

Payments for support pursuant to § 24-241.06 shall be made through the clerks of the respective courts. In cases where there is no outstanding court order of support or judgment against the prisoner, the Director, Department of Public Welfare, or his designated agent, shall, afte…

The Attorney General of the United States may, in order to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, designate the Mayor as his authorized representative to perform the functions vested in him by § 24-201.26.

(a) As used in this subchapter the term “Mayor” means the Mayor of the District of Columbia or his designated agents. (b) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed so as to affect the authority vested in the Commissioners by Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824). T…

Except when employed and paid by the District of Columbia for the performance of work for the District of Columbia government, no prisoner employed in the free community under the provisions of this subchapter shall, while working in such employment in the free community or going…

For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) The term “Department” means the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. (2) The term “Director” means the Director of the Department of Corrections, or his designated agent. (3) The term “furlough” means any extension of the limits…

(a) The Mayor of the District of Columbia, or his designated agent, may grant a resocialization furlough to any eligible resident for the purposes specified in this subchapter and according to the procedures provided for in this subchapter. The decision to grant or deny a furloug…

(a) The Mayor, or his designated agent, may grant a furlough, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, to any eligible resident: (1) In order to visit the bedside of a dying relative, or to attend the funeral of a relative, in the Washington metropolitan area; (2) Up…

(a) Each caseworker or counselor on the staff of the Department who is assigned to investigate an application for a furlough shall: (1) verify the reasons given by the applicant for the furlough; (2) determine whether the furlough requested and the applicant meet the requirements…

(a) Residents being released on furlough shall be reported as “furloughed” on appropriate Departmental records and statistical forms, identifying such movement as a furlough. Because time spent on furlough is creditable toward the service of a sentence, such status will not precl…

There shall be established, within each facility and institution of the Department, an institutional review committee composed of a psychologist, a senior correctional officer, and an academician. Each committee shall be appointed by the Director, or his designee. It shall be the…

The Director shall submit to the Council’s Committee on Public Safety, semiannually (on January 31st and July 31st of each year), a report on the furlough program conducted during the immediately preceding period. The report shall include the number of furloughs granted during su…

If any section or provision of this subchapter is held to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid in its application to any person or circumstance, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the applicability of that section or provision, or the applicability of the…

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “CTF” means the Correctional Treatment Facility. (2) “Deadly force” means force which would likely cause death or serious bodily injury. (3) “Non-deadly force” means force that normally would neither cause death nor serious bodil…

(a) A private correctional officer may carry firearms provided by the private operator only in the following situations: (1) While patrolling the perimeter grounds of the CTF or any other privately-operated prison facility; (2) While transporting inmates assigned to the CTF or to…

(a) In order to register firearms, the private operator shall follow the following procedures: (1) To register for interim approval, the private operator shall provide the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (“Chief of Police”) with the serial numbers and storage places o…

A health professional shall remain covered by § 3-1201.04 if the following criteria are met: (1) The health professional is transferred from employment by the District government to employment by a private operator to perform essentially the same services as the person performed …

(a) An inmate confined in the CTF shall be deemed to be at all times in the legal custody of the Department of Corrections. Only the Department of Corrections shall have authority to transfer or assign inmates into or out of the CTF. All laws and regulations governing conduct of …

(a) The private operator shall protect, defend, indemnify, save, and hold harmless the District, its officers, agents, servants, employees, and volunteers from and against any and all claims, demands, expenses, and liability arising out of or relating to acts or omissions of the …

(a) Notwithstanding § 1-301.110a, and § 10-801, the Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to sell and leaseback, in his discretion, for the best interests of the District of Columbia, the Correctional Treatment Facility, situated on Lot 800 of Square 1112, with a street…

(a) Notwithstanding any other District of Columbia law, no telephone service provider shall charge a customer a rate for operator-assisted calls made from a penal or correctional institution in the District of Columbia in excess of the maximum rate determined by the Public Servic…

In any contract to which the District of Columbia is a party that is for the holding or incarceration of persons charged or convicted in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, such contract shall prohibit surcharges, commissions, or other financial impositions that are i…

(a) The Department of Corrections (“Department”) shall survey the communications plans used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and all state prison systems. The Department shall explore additional alternative communication plans with telecommunications companies. The explored alte…

The Public Service Commission shall determine the maximum rate for operator-assisted calls made from phones utilized by inmates of a penal or correctional institution in the District of Columbia.

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Administrator” means the warden of the penal institution, the director of a facility under the control of the Department of Corrections, or any designees thereof, including medical and correctional staff. (2) “Confined” means ho…

(a) In any instance that restraints are used on a confined woman who is known to be pregnant, the restraints used must be the least restrictive available and the most reasonable under the circumstances. (b) In any instance that the restraints used on a confined woman who is known…

(a)(1) Within 10 days after the Administrator authorizes the use of restraints pursuant to § 24-276.02(b), § 24-276.02(c), or § 24-276.02(d), the Administrator shall submit a written statement to the Director of the Department of Corrections in the case of confined women explaini…

The Administrator shall provide notice of the requirements of this subchapter to: (1) The relevant staff at the place of confinement, including: (A) All medical staff; (B) Staff and contractors who are involved in the transport of confined women of child-bearing age; and (C) Othe…

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Commissary” means a system through which inmates in District correctional facilities are able to purchase permitted commodities. (2) “Committee” means the Inmate Welfare Fund Committee established by section 3005 [§ 24-284]. (3)…

(a) There is established a nonlapsing fund to be known as the Inmate Welfare Fund and to be used for the purposes set forth in § 24-283. (b) The Fund shall consist of: (1) An initial appropriation in fiscal year 2007; and (2) Monies derived from the sale of goods through the comm…

The Fund shall be used for the following purposes, in order of priority: (1) To stock the commissaries of District correctional facilities; (2) To repay the initial appropriation used to finance the Fund; and (3) To provide goods and services that benefit the general inmate popul…

(a) The Inmate Welfare Fund Committee is established for the purpose of administering and supervising the operations of and the expenditures from the Inmate Welfare Fund. (b) The Committee shall be composed of the following 5 members: (1) The Director of the Department of Correct…