The Mississippi Department of Corrections is authorized, subject to the availability of funds, to secure a biological sample for purposes of DNA identification analysis from every individual convicted of a felony or in its custody before release from or transfer to a state correctional facility or county jail or other detention facility.
Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database
Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-183, under Correctional System.
Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-183