Title XIII, CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS

217.270. Parole board to have access to offenders and records, when. — All correctional employees shall: (1) Grant to members of the state parole board or its properly accredited representatives access at all reasonable times to any offender; (2) Furnish to the board the reports …

217.275. Carrying letters or writings without authorization prohibited, penalty. — 1. Only those persons designated to do so by the chief administrative officer of a correctional center shall bring into or carry out of any correctional center under the control of the department a…

217.280. Firearms may be carried by designated employees — powers of arrest and apprehension. — 1. Under the rules and regulations of the department, designated employees may carry firearms when necessary for the proper discharge of their duties in this state or any state. 2. Tho…

217.285. Clothing, money, transportation, return of personal property to discharged or paroled prisoners — exception. — Each offender paroled or discharged from the department may, depending on need, be furnished appropriate civilian clothing and up to two hundred dollars. Any ot…

217.300. Reception and diagnostic centers for classification of prisoners to be established. — 1. The department shall establish reception and diagnostic centers for persons committed to the department. 2. All commitments shall be made to the department. Offenders shall be delive…

217.305. Delivery of prisoners to correctional centers with certain required information. — 1. The sheriff or other officer charged with the delivery of persons committed to the department for confinement in a correctional center shall deliver the person to the reception and diag…

217.310. Examination of new prisoners — identification data recorded. — 1. On delivery of the offender to the reception and diagnostic center, he shall be examined by a licensed physician. 2. The offender's committed name, race, height, apparent and alleged age, place of nativity…

217.315. System of identification, department to establish. — Any person convicted of a felony, which shall not be set aside or reversed, may be subjected to an identification procedure adopted by the department. Such force may be used as necessary to the effectual carrying out a…

217.320. Identification systems, officers not liable for acts done in enforcing law. — No one having the custody of any offender, and no one acting in his aid or under his direction, and no one concerned in such publication shall incur any liability, civil or criminal, for anythi…

217.325. Identification system mandatory. — The enforcement of the provisions of section 217.315 by the authorities in charge of state correctional centers, police departments and others having the custody of those convicted of a felony which shall not be set aside or reversed is…

217.330. Department to conduct tests — assignment of offender. — 1. The department shall conduct such testing and other diagnostic examinations as may by rule be established by the director and shall assign the offender to the appropriate correctional center. 2. The reception and…

217.335. Classification teams, established — appointment, qualifications, duties. — 1. There shall be established at each correctional facility classification teams to be composed of the offender, along with a minimum of three members and a maximum of five members appointed as pe…

217.337. Schedule of activities, work, and program, adherence to, exemption. — 1. All general population offenders shall be expected to adhere to a schedule of activities of work and rehabilitative programs as prescribed for the offender by the department. This schedule of activi…

217.343. Emancipation of certain juvenile offenders for certain purposes. — Offenders who are younger than seventeen years of age and have been adjudicated as an adult shall be emancipated for the purpose of decision making and participation in all department programs and service…

217.345. First offenders and offenders eighteen or younger — mandatory program — physical separation of offenders less than eighteen years of age — rules — contract for provision of services — evaluation process. — 1. Correctional treatment programs for first offenders and offend…

217.350. Transfer of offender, when. — An offender may be transferred from one correctional center to another by the director. ­­-------- (L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 53, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424)

217.355. Education programs established, what included, enrollment required, when. — 1. The department shall develop and implement a plan of instruction for the education of offenders. 2. The educational plan shall include: (1) The accepted curricula for the first to twelfth grad…

217.361. Risk and need assessment tools — department procedures, duties. — 1. The department shall adopt streamlined, validated risk and need assessment tools for men and women, and review the tools and scoring cutoffs every five years for predictive validity across gender and ra…

217.362. Program for offenders with substance abuse addiction — eligibility, disposition, placement — completion, effect. — 1. The department of corrections shall design and implement an intensive long-term program for the treatment of chronic nonviolent offenders with serious su…

217.364. Offenders under treatment program, placement, rules — eligibility — use, purpose, availability — failure to complete. — 1. The department of corrections shall establish by regulation the "Offenders Under Treatment Program". The program shall include institutional placeme…

217.365. Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband. — No offender while confined in any correctional center of the department, except those offenders so authorized by the chief administrative officer of a particular center, shall be permitted to …

217.370. Discipline and grievance procedures established — chief administrative officer to abide by. — The director shall establish rules and regulations pertaining to offender disciplinary procedure and shall establish an offender grievance procedure. The chief administrative of…

217.375. Administrative segregation, grounds for — review hearing required — records to be kept — access to medical personnel. — 1. When an offender is an immediate security risk, or an offender is violent, struggling and creating sufficient disturbance to indicate he is not in c…

217.380. Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required — disciplinary segregation, hearing, time period. — 1. When an offender is found guilty of a violation of a correctional facility rule or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, a record of such viola…

217.385. Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty. — 1. No offender shall knowingly commit violence to an employee of the department or to another offender housed in a department correctional center. Violation of this subsection shall be a class B felony. 2. …

217.390. Escape, defined — penalty. — An offender absenting himself without leave from any person in charge of his supervision, or from any work assignment, educational release program or job outside of the correctional center, or from any halfway house or correctional facility o…

217.395. Escapee's apprehension — reward may be offered, limitations. — Whenever an offender escapes, the division director shall take all proper measures for the apprehension of the offender and may pay a reward for his apprehension and delivery. The reward shall not exceed five…

217.400. Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of furnishing unfit food to offenders if he does any of the following: (1) Knowingly furnishes or delivers any diseased, putrid or otherwise unwholesome meat from any animal or fowl that was d…

217.405. Offender abuse, penalty — employees not to use physical force, exception. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, a person commits the offense of offender abuse if he or she knowingly injures the physical well-being of any offender under the jurisdiction…

217.410. Abuse of offender, duty to report, penalty — confidentiality of report, immunity from liability — harassment prohibited. — 1. When any employee of the department has reasonable cause to believe that an offender in a correctional center operated or funded by the departmen…

217.412. Autopsy required, when — reports to be maintained by department. — It shall be the duty of the department of corrections to ensure that an autopsy is performed upon all offenders within the custody of the department who die under violent or suspicious circumstances or ap…

217.415. Disqualification from holding position in correctional facility, when. — A person convicted of any crime under section 217.400, 217.405, or 217.410 shall be disqualified from holding any position in the department. ­­-------- (L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 28, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408)…

217.420. Surgery, general anesthetic not authorized for offender without consent or court order, exceptions, emergencies — treatment against religious beliefs, when allowed. — 1. Except in case of an emergency, the department shall not authorize or permit any major surgery to be …

217.425. Furlough of prisoners, when — time limitations, exceptions — waiver required, when — notice requirements. — 1. The director may extend the limits of the place of confinement of an offender who, he has reasonable cause to believe, will honor his trust, by authorizing the …

217.430. Residential treatment centers and community based sanctions — assignment of offenders — contracts to establish, provisions, locations — payments, how made — inmates fund established, use — regulation of inmates. — 1. The director may contract with private or public organ…

217.435. Work or educational release program. — 1. The director may establish, at those correctional facilities he so designates, a program of work and educational release for those offenders who meet the standards established by department rules and regulations. 2. Each offender…

217.437. Work by offenders, not employment, when — benefitting entity immune from suit, exceptions. — Performance of free work or work compensated at less than minimum wage for a public or charitable purpose, by any person under the supervision of the department of corrections, s…

217.439. Photograph of offender to be taken prior to release, when — provided to victim upon request. — Upon the victim's request, a photograph shall be taken of the incarcerated individual prior to release from incarceration and a copy of the photograph shall be provided to the …

217.440. Program of restorative justice, requirements. — The director is authorized to establish a program of restorative justice within the department's correctional centers and to require that offenders offer acts and expressions of sincere remorse for the offense committed and…

217.441. Domestic phone calls, limit on total amount of costs charged to an offender. — No correctional center or other party shall charge an offender in a correctional center a total amount for a domestic phone call, including fees and any per-minute rate, that exceeds the equiv…

217.450. Offender may request final disposition of pending indictment, information or complaint, how requested — director to notify offender of pending actions, failure to notify, effect. — 1. Any person confined in a department correctional facility may request a final dispositi…

217.455. Director of division of adult institutions to transmit information and request. — The request provided for in section 217.450 shall be delivered to the director, who shall forthwith: (1) Certify the term of commitment under which the offender is being held, the time alre…

217.460. Trial to be held, when — failure, effect. — Within one hundred eighty days after the receipt of the request and certificate, pursuant to sections 217.450 and 217.455, by the court and the prosecuting attorney or within such additional necessary or reasonable time as the …

217.465. Escape by offender, effect of. — Escape from custody by any offender subsequent to his execution of a request for final disposition of an untried indictment, information or complaint shall void the request. ­­-------- (L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 81, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408)

217.470. Transportation expenses, how paid. — The expense of transporting any offender between the place of his confinement and the county wherein an untried indictment, information or complaint is pending shall be paid by the county. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to transp…

217.475. Director of division of adult institutions to inform prisoner of the law in writing. — The director shall arrange for all offenders to be informed in writing of the provisions of sections 217.450 to 217.485 and for a record of such writing to be placed in the offender's …