Title 791, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Sec. 58f. (1) The department may do either of the following if an individual violates a condition of parole sanction certainty supervision: (a) Modify the conditions of parole sanction certainty supervision for the limited purpose of imposing graduated sanctions. (b) Place the in…

Sec. 58g. (1) The department shall review the use of confinement sanctions by supervising agents in the counties where the parole sanction certainty program is implemented on a biannual basis to assess any disparities that may exist among the supervising agents' use of confinemen…

Sec. 61. There is hereby established within the department, a bureau of prisons. This bureau shall be under the direction and supervision of the assistant director in charge of the bureau of penal institutions.

Sec. 62. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Holding cell" means a cell or room in a facility of a local unit of government that is used for the detention of 1 or more persons awaiting processing, booking, court appearances, transportation to a jail or lockup, or discharge for not …

Sec. 62a. (1) A local lockup advisory board is created within the bureau of prisons. The board shall consist of 7 members appointed for a period of 4 years. The director of each of the following shall appoint 1 member: (a) The department of state police. (b) The Michigan associat…

Sec. 62b. (1) The rules and standards promulgated under section 62(3) do not prohibit the housing of 2 inmates in a county jail cell that is designed and constructed for single occupancy and that meets either of the following conditions: (a) The cell is at least 65 square feet in…

Sec. 62c. (1) The rules and standards promulgated under section 62(3) shall not prohibit the housing of 2 or more inmates in a county jail cell which is designed and constructed for housing 2 or more inmates, and which meets all of the following conditions: (a) The basic cell has…

Sec. 62d. (1) The department shall develop rehabilitation plans for prisoners in the custody of the department who are approximately 18 to 22 years of age that specifically take the prisoner's age into consideration. (2) The department shall provide, to the extent it is able to d…

Sec. 63. (1) The wardens of the correctional facilities of this state shall be appointed by the director of corrections and shall be within the state civil service. The assistant director in charge of the bureau of correctional facilities shall, subject to the approval of the dir…

Sec. 63a. (1) A person employed by the department of corrections in a correctional facility who is injured as a result of an assault by a prisoner housed in the correctional facility or injured during a riot shall receive his or her full wages by the department of corrections unt…

Sec. 64. (1) The assistant director in charge of the bureau of correctional facilities shall classify the prisoners in correctional facilities. The assistant director shall appoint a classification committee from the staff of each correctional facility, which committee shall perf…

Sec. 65. (1) Under rules promulgated by the director of the department, the assistant director in charge of the bureau of correctional facilities, except as otherwise provided in this section, may cause the transfer or re-transfer of a prisoner from a correctional facility to whi…

Sec. 65a. (1) Under prescribed conditions, the director may extend the limits of confinement of a prisoner when there is reasonable assurance, after consideration of all facts and circumstances, that the prisoner will not become a menace to society or to the public safety, by aut…

Sec. 65b. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Medical institution" means that term as defined in section 106(2) of Act No. 280 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, being section 400.106 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. (b) "Mentally or physically disabled prisoner" means a prisone…

Sec. 65c. (1) As used in this section, "work camp" means a correctional facility that houses prisoners who are made available for work as provided in subsection (3). (2) The department may construct, maintain, and operate work camps for the purpose of housing prisoners who are un…

Sec. 65d. (1) If 1 or more of the following occur, the department shall make an entry in the law enforcement information network: (a) A prisoner escapes from a state correctional facility. (b) A parole violation warrant is issued. (2) If 1 or more of the following occur, the depa…

Sec. 65e. When a prisoner is transferred into a community placement facility of any kind, including a community corrections center, halfway house, or resident home, the department shall send notice of the transfer from the corrections management information system via the law enf…

Sec. 65f. (1) Beginning September 30, 1990, a prisoner who is serving a sentence for conviction of an assaultive crime shall not be placed in a privately owned, noncommercial residential dwelling used for housing prisoners. (2) Beginning on the effective date of this section, for…

Sec. 65g. As used in this section and sections 65h and 65i: (a) "Community corrections center" means that term as defined in section 65a. (b) "Community residential home" means that term as defined in section 65a. (c) "Community status criteria" means the criteria for determining…

Sec. 65h. (1) A prisoner who does not meet the community status criteria shall not be placed in a community corrections center or community residential home. The community status criteria include all of the following requirements: (a) The prisoner has been given a level I securit…

Sec. 65i. (1) The legislative body of a city, village, or township in which a community corrections center is located may form a 5-member citizens' council by sending written notice of its intention to form a citizens' council to the board of commissioners of the county in which …

Sec. 66. For the purpose of classification, all convicted prisoners shall be committed by courts of criminal jurisdiction of the state, to the commission, at a place to be designated by the commission.

Sec. 67. (1) Quarters for temporary confinement apart from those of regular inmates shall be provided for convicted prisoners upon commitment at each of the state correctional facilities, which the director shall designate as a reception center. Within 60 days after the arrival o…

Sec. 67a. (1) A prisoner who receives nonemergency medical, dental, or optometric services at his or her request is responsible for a copayment fee to the department for those services, as determined by the department. If the prisoner is a minor, the prisoner's parent or guardian…

Sec. 67b. (1) If an employee of the department sustains a percutaneous, mucous membrane, or open wound exposure to the blood or body fluids of a prisoner, the employee may request that the prisoner be tested for HIV infection or HBV infection, or both, pursuant to this section. (…

Sec. 68. If a prisoner is ordered by a court to make monthly payments for the purpose of paying the balance of filing fees or costs under section 2963 of the revised judicature act of 1961, Act No. 236 of the Public Acts of 1961, being section 600.2963 of the Michigan Compiled La…

Sec. 68a. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a prisoner may be permitted to receive visits from a minor brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister if that minor is on the prisoner's approved visitor list. (2) Notwithstanding subsection…

Sec. 69. (1) Upon the request of a victim or a victim's representative, the department shall confiscate and dispose of any of the following that are in the possession of a prisoner: (a) Any item belonging to that victim or that formerly belonged to that victim. (b) A photograph, …

Sec. 69a. (1) A visitor to a state correctional facility shall not be subjected to a pat down search unless every person performing or assisting in performing the pat down search is of the same sex as the person being searched. If the necessary personnel are not readily available…

Sec. 69b. (1) Subject to the policies and procedures adopted under subsection (2) for screening and approving applicants, the department shall allow representatives from all nonprofit faith-based, business and professional, civic, and community organizations to apply to be regist…

Sec. 70. (1) A correctional facility may monitor telephone communications over telephones available for use by prisoners in the correctional facility if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The director promulgates rules under which the monitoring is to be conducted, and …

Sec. 71. The assistant director of the bureau of prison industries is hereby vested with the control, management, coordination and supervision of the industrial plants connected with the several penal institutions, and subject to the approval of the director shall appoint all bur…

Sec. 81. The powers and duties vested by law in the state department of corrections created under the provisions of Act No. 4 of the Public Acts of the Second Extra Session of 1947, as amended, being sections 791.1 to 791.123, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, are hereby t…

Sec. 82. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, the commission may, with the approval of the state administrative board, make such transfers of appropriations as are necessary to carry out the intent of this act.

Sec. 83. (1) The department shall provide all of the following to a prisoner who is discharged from custody prior to his or her maximum discharge date without being granted parole because his or her conviction or sentence has been reversed, vacated, or overturned: (a) Reentry ser…

Sec. 84. (1) On a quarterly basis, the department shall provide to the department of health and human services a list of supervised individuals who have absconded from supervision and whom a law enforcement agency or the department is actively seeking. (2) As used in this section…

Sec. 85. (1) The lifetime electronic monitoring program is established in the department. The lifetime electronic monitoring program must implement a system of monitoring individuals released from parole, prison, or both parole and prison who are sentenced by the court to lifetim…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "correctional officers' training act of 1982".

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Central training academy" means the central training academy established pursuant to section 15. (b) "Correctional facility" means a facility or institution which houses an inmate population under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections…

Sec. 3. The correctional officer's training council is created within the department and shall establish standards regarding training and education as prescribed in this act. The council shall consist of 8 members appointed by the governor. The members shall be appointed as follo…

Sec. 4. (1) All members of the council shall hold office for a term of 3 years. Successors shall be appointed in the same manner as the original appointment. (2) A person appointed as a member to fill a vacancy created other than by expiration of a term shall be appointed in the …

Sec. 5. (1) The council shall designate from among its members a chairperson and a vice-chairperson who shall serve for 1-year terms and who may be reelected. (2) The council shall meet at least 4 times in each year at Lansing. The council shall hold special meetings when called …

Sec. 6. A member of the council shall not be disqualified from holding any public office or employment by reason of his or her appointment or membership on the council, nor shall he or she forfeit any such office or employment, by reason of his or her appointment under this act, …

Sec. 7. There shall be an executive secretary of the council who shall be appointed by the council upon recommendations from the director of the department. The executive secretary shall be an employee of the department and shall perform such functions and duties as may be assign…

Sec. 8. Administrative support services for the council and executive secretary shall be provided by the department as provided by separate appropriation for the council.

Sec. 9. Beginning 6 months after the effective date of this act, a person shall not be a state correctional officer unless he or she is certified or recertified by the Michigan commission of corrections as provided in section 10, 11, or 12. The Michigan commission of corrections …