Title 800, PRISONS

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Correctional industries products" means all services provided, goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured or produced, wholly or in part, by inmates in any state correctional institution, but does not include either of the following: (i) Products…

Sec. 3. The authority and duties contained in this act are vested in the commission of corrections.

Sec. 4. (1) The department of corrections may do any of the following: (a) Construct, use, equip, and maintain buildings, machinery, boilers, and equipment that may be necessary to provide for the employment of inmate labor in the state correctional institutions for the manufactu…

Sec. 5. Except as provided in section 7a, all money collected from the sale or disposition of goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured by inmate labor, or received for services provided by labor in the correctional institutions pursuant to this act, shall be turned over to the …

Sec. 6. (1) Correctional industries products may be sold, exchanged, or purchased by any of the following: (a) An institution of this or any other state or political subdivision of this or any other state, the federal government or agencies of the federal government, a foreign go…

Sec. 7. The department of corrections shall provide as fully as practicable for the employment of inmates in tasks consistent with the penal and rehabilitative purposes of their imprisonment and with the public economy. The types of employment shall be as follows: (a) Routine mai…

Sec. 7a. (1) Inmates may be assigned to work in a private manufacturing or service enterprise that meets all of the following requirements: (a) The enterprise is suitably designed for the utilization of inmate labor. Prisoners shall not be granted access to any employee, customer…

Sec. 8. The director of the department of management and budget shall prescribe specifications, standards, quality tests, methods, and conditions of packaging and conditions and times of delivery for correctional industries products purchased by this state, and may inspect, accep…

Sec. 9. Correctional industries, with the approval of the department of management and budget, may purchase finished goods, materials, or equipment of the same type as ordinarily produced by correctional industries. The industries may then sell the items to those entities for who…

Sec. 10. A correctional institution now maintained by a political subdivision of this state may sell or otherwise dispose of its correctional institution products to the institutions or departments of the county or political subdivision in which the institution is located. The pr…

Sec. 11. (1) It is the intent of this act to do all of the following: (a) Provide adequate, regular, diversified, and suitable employment for inmates of the state for the purpose of enhancing job skills consistent with proper penal purposes. (b) Utilize the labor of inmates for s…

Sec. 12. The department of corrections may adopt a schedule of payments or allowances to inmates or to their dependents from the funds as may be provided for the payment. This section does not apply to the payment of wages to inmates assigned to work in private manufacturing or s…

Sec. 13. Wilful violations of any of the provisions of this act by an officer of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, or by any officer of any institution of either, shall be sufficient cause for removal from office, and subject such officer to prosecution as provid…

Sec. 14. Any person, firm or corporation who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 1. As used in this act, "state correctional facility" means a facility or institution which houses an inmate population under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections. State correctional facility includes a correctional camp, community correction center, state priso…

Sec. 2. (1) The state shall reimburse each county in which a state correctional facility is located for the reasonable and actual costs incurred by the county for juror's fees, witness fees, fees of attorneys appointed by the court for the defendant, transcript fees, and for a pr…

Sec. 3. (1) The state shall reimburse each county for the reasonable and actual costs incurred by that county for implementing additional jurisdictional duties in the circuit court imposed upon that county by law because that county is specifically named in the law as having juri…

Sec. 4. (1) When a state committed prisoner who was incarcerated in a state correctional facility has escaped, not returned pursuant to agreement, or violated the terms of his or her parole and has been apprehended pursuant to an order of the department of corrections and is held…

Sec. 5. (1) The state shall reimburse each county in which a state correctional facility is located for the reasonable and actual costs of the following expenses incurred by that county for implementing jurisdictional duties in the probate court imposed upon that county by chapte…

Sec. 1. (1) Except as provided in section 2, a person shall not sell, give, or furnish, either directly or indirectly, any alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance to a prisoner who is in or on a correctional facility or dispose of that liquor, drug, p…

Sec. 1a. As used in this act: (a) "Alcoholic liquor" means any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, liquid, or compound whether or not medicated, containing 1/2 of 1% or more of alcohol by volume and which is or readily can be made suitable for beverage purposes. (b) "C…

Sec. 2. (1) A person is not in violation of section 1 if all of the following occur: (a) A licensed physician certifies in writing that the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance is necessary for the health of the prisoner or employee. (b) The certificate co…

Sec. 3. (1) Unless authorized by the chief administrator of the correctional facility, a weapon or other implement which may be used to injure a prisoner or other person, or in assisting a prisoner to escape from imprisonment, shall not be sold, given, or furnished, either direct…

Sec. 3a. (1) A person shall not sell, give, or furnish, or aid in the selling, giving, or furnishing of, a cellular telephone or other wireless communication device to a prisoner in a correctional facility, or dispose of a cellular telephone or other wireless communication device…

Sec. 4. The chief administrator of a correctional facility may search, or have searched, any person coming to the correctional facility as a visitor, or in any other capacity, who is suspected of having any weapon or other implement which may be used to injure a prisoner or other…

Sec. 5. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person violating this act is guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both. (2) If the delivery of a controlled substance is a felony punishable by impris…

Sec. 33. (1) A record of all major misconduct charges for which a prisoner has been found guilty shall be maintained and given to the parole board as part of the parole eligibility report prepared for each prisoner pursuant to section 35 of 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.235. (2) Except as…

Sec. 34. (1) A prisoner subject to disciplinary time shall receive disciplinary time for each major misconduct for which he or she is found guilty as prescribed by rule pursuant to section 35. (2) Accumulated disciplinary time shall be submitted to the parole board for the parole…

Sec. 35. The department shall promulgate rules prescribing the amount of disciplinary time to be submitted to the parole board for the parole board's consideration for each type of major misconduct for which a prisoner subject to disciplinary time is found guilty. The rules shall…

Sec. 41. (1) If a prisoner assaults or batters a corrections officer or any other person, damages or attempts to damage any part of a correctional facility, attempts to escape, or resists or disobeys a lawful command, the corrections officers of the correctional facility shall us…

Sec. 42. (1) A prisoner in a correctional facility assigned to a housing unit having a security classification of IV, V, or VI shall not have in his or her living area any personal clothing, except that a prisoner in a correctional facility assigned to a housing unit having a sec…

Sec. 43. (1) The department may prohibit a prisoner from receiving or possessing any material that the department determines under this section is detrimental to the security, good order, or discipline of the institution, or that may facilitate or encourage criminal activity, or …

Sec. 44. A prisoner in a correctional facility assigned to a housing unit having a security classification of I to VI shall wear a uniform provided by the department at all times except when personal clothing may be worn as provided in section 42. The color of a prisoner's unifor…

Sec. 48. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of every county in which any criminal is sentenced to confinement in a prison, to cause the convict to be removed from the county jail without needless delay after sentence, and conveyed to the proper prison and delivered to the warden…

Sec. 49. The fees and actual expenses of sheriffs in conveying convicts to a prison shall be made out in a bill containing the fees or expenses, and shall be presented to the warden when the prisoner is delivered at the prison. The warden shall certify on it that the prisoner has…

Sec. 50. When any convict shall be delivered to the warden of either prison, the officer having such convict in his charge shall deliver to such warden the certified copy of the sentence, received by such officer from the clerk of the court, and shall take from such warden a cert…

Sec. 61. Whenever any convict shall escape from a prison, the warden shall take all proper measures for the apprehension of the convict, and for that purpose he or she may offer a reward not exceeding $50.00 for the apprehension and delivery of that convict; but with the consent …

Sec. 1. Upon the written request of a majority of the board of commissioners, the department of corrections may detail such able bodied convicts as in its discretion shall seem proper, not exceeding the number specified in the written request, to work upon public projects of a co…

Sec. 1-a. Any convicts mentioned in section 1 of this act may be employed by the state highway department in this state in construction work upon the public highways of this state. The state highway commissioner shall make requisition for convicts desired for employment and in su…

Sec. 2. Said convicts when employed under the provisions of section 1 of this act shall not be used for the purpose of building any bridge or structure of like character which requires the employment of skilled labor.

Sec. 1. That it shall be the duty of the keeper, or other persons having the control of any prison, jail, alms-house, house of correction, hospital or poor-house in the state of Michigan, to fix and appoint some suitable and convenient time, in each week, during which clergymen o…

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of such keeper or other person in control, during the time fixed, in pursuance of the first section of this act, to give free access to any clergyman of any religious denomination, and to furnish such clergyman all reasonable facilities for interviews…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "the state correctional facility reimbursement act."

Sec. 1a. As used in this act: (a) "Assets" means property, tangible or intangible, real or personal, belonging to or due a prisoner or former prisoner including income or payments to such prisoner from social security, worker's compensation, veteran's compensation, pension benefi…

Sec. 1b. (1) The department shall develop a form which shall be used by the department to obtain information from all prisoners regarding assets of the prisoners. (2) Upon being developed, the form shall be submitted to each person who is a prisoner as of the date the form is dev…

Sec. 2. The director shall forward to the attorney general a report on each prisoner containing a completed form under section 1b together with all other information available on the assets of the prisoner and an estimate of the total cost of care for that prisoner.