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NRS 209.3925 Residential confinement or other appropriate supervision of offenders who are physically incapacitated or in ill health: Eligibility; request for medical release; duration; notice; notification to victim; effect of violation of terms or conditions; status; restitutio…

NRS 209.393 Regulations regarding literacy of offenders. The Board may adopt regulations which: 1. Designate a level of literacy in reading and writing which is consistent with that required by the State Board of Education for its pupils in the eighth grade. 2. Provide for the te…

NRS 209.396 Limitations on assignment of offender to industrial or vocational school; educational requirements for offender with developmental, learning or other disability. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, an offender who is illiterate may not be assigned to an i…

NRS 209.399 Department to provide information and programming regarding financial planning and aid; assistance with Free Application for Federal Student Aid; report. 1. On or before September 30 of each year, programming staff at each institution or facility of the Department sha…

NRS 209.401 Director may establish facilities for offenders to live in community. The Director may, with the approval of the Board, establish facilities which enable offenders to live in a community while obtaining regular employment, enrolling in academic courses, participating …

NRS 209.403 Establishment of transitional housing program; coordination with Division of Forestry of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; eligibility to participate in program. The Director may establish, in coordination with the Division of Forestry of the Sta…

NRS 209.417 Use of authorized telecommunications devices by offenders; regulations. 1. The warden or manager of an institution or facility shall: (a) Determine which telecommunications devices, if any, are authorized for use by an offender in accordance with the regulations adopt…

NRS 209.419 Interception of offender’s communications by telecommunications devices: Notice; exceptions. 1. Communications made by an offender on any telephone or other telecommunications device in an institution or facility to any person outside the institution or facility may b…

NRS 209.422 Visitation of offenders: Regulations. The Director shall adopt, with the approval of the Board, regulations establishing and governing a program, to be carried out within each facility and institution, for the visitation of offenders. The regulations must prescribe: 1…

NRS 209.423 Visits and correspondence between offenders and others: Rights of offenders; warden or manager required to provide certain notice relating to denial of prospective visitor or cancellation of visit; regulations. 1. The Director shall, with approval of the Board, adopt …

NRS 209.42303 Institution or facility required to provide offender with access to certain mail; procedure for exemption from requirement. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, an institution or facility shall provide an offender with the original, physical copy of any …

NRS 209.42305 Prisoner contact with child of prisoner; use of equipment for videoconference. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, by order of the court or by regulations of the Department, the Director shall allow a prisoner to maintain contact with a child of the prisoner who…

NRS 209.4231 Definitions. As used in NRS 209.4231 to 209.4244, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 209.42315 to 209.4234, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2652; A 2021, 208)

NRS 209.42315 “Co-occurring disorder” defined. “Co-occurring disorder” means the presence of at least one mental disorder and at least one substance use disorder, as defined in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Added to NRS by …

NRS 209.4232 “Division” defined. “Division” means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Human Services. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2652; A 1999, 1881; 2001, 433)

NRS 209.4233 “Program of aftercare” defined. “Program of aftercare” means a program that is established pursuant to NRS 209.4238 to provide continuing treatment to those offenders who successfully complete treatment in a program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co…

NRS 209.42335 “Program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders” defined. “Program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders” means a program: 1. Established pursuant to NRS 209.4236 to provide treatment to certain offe…

NRS 209.4234 “Substance use disorder” defined. “Substance use disorder” means a cluster of cognitive, behavioral and physiological symptoms indicating that a person continues using a substance despite significant substance-related problems. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2652; A 2021, 20…

NRS 209.4236 Director to establish programs of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders. 1. The Director shall, in conjunction with the Division and with the approval of the Board, establish one or more programs of treatment for offenders with substanc…

NRS 209.4237 Program to evaluate offenders for participation in program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders; assignment to participate in program of treatment. 1. The Director shall, in conjunction with the Division and with the approval of the…

NRS 209.4238 Programs of aftercare. 1. The Director shall, in conjunction with the Division and with the approval of the Board, establish one or more programs of aftercare to provide continuing treatment to those offenders who successfully complete treatment in a program of treat…

NRS 209.4239 Removal from program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders or program of aftercare; Director may establish conditions, sanctions and incentives regarding participation; immunity. 1. The Director or a person designated by the Director…

NRS 209.424 Offenders excluded from participation. An offender may not participate in a program of treatment for offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders if the offender: 1. Was sentenced to death or a term of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole;…

NRS 209.4242 Director may contract with qualified persons. To carry out the provisions of NRS 209.4231 to 209.4244, inclusive, the Director may contract with persons or private entities that are qualified to evaluate offenders with substance use or co-occurring disorders or quali…

NRS 209.4244 Report by Director to Legislature. The Director shall provide the following information to the Interim Finance Committee on or before January 31 of each even-numbered year and to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and the Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and…

NRS 209.4247 Establishment of program; collaboration with Department of Human Services; eligibility to participate in program; participants not subject to discipline on certain bases. 1. To the extent that money is available and subject to subsection 2, the Director shall, with t…

NRS 209.425 Establishment of program; program to include rehabilitation, education and counseling; assignment of wages. 1. The Director shall, with the approval of the Board, establish a program for the treatment of a person with an alcohol or substance use disorder who is impris…

NRS 209.427 Assignment of offender to program; withdrawal of offender from program. 1. If the results of an evaluation conducted pursuant to NRS 484C.300 or 488.430 indicate that an offender has an alcohol or other substance use disorder and that the offender can be treated succe…

NRS 209.429 Director to assign offender to serve term of residential confinement under certain circumstances; notice to victim; effect of violating terms or conditions of residential confinement; status; restitution. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 7 and 8, the Dir…

NRS 209.4291 Establishment of program; duties of Department; condition of participation in program. 1. The Department of Corrections shall establish a diversion program within the correctional institutions or other facilities maintained by the Department. 2. The Department of Cor…

NRS 209.4293 Court authorized to remand probation violator to program for supervision and to receive treatment for an alcohol or other substance use disorder or for a mental illness; eligibility for treatment. 1. A district court may remand a probationer who is returned to the di…

NRS 209.4295 Payment of cost of supervision and treatment; performance of community service as contribution toward cost; issuance of judgment for unpaid costs. 1. A probation violator who is placed in the diversion program for supervision and, if appropriate, to receive treatment…

NRS 209.4297 Release of probationer from supervision; completion of remaining or additional period of probation; revocation of probation. 1. When the court determines that a probation violator who was remanded to the diversion program has satisfied the applicable terms and condit…

NRS 209.4299 Submission of report concerning probationers participating in program. The Department of Corrections and the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety shall jointly submit a report at least twice annually to the Director of the Legislative C…

NRS 209.432 Definitions. As used in NRS 209.432 to 209.453, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Offender” includes: (a) A person who is convicted of a felony under the laws of this State and sentenced, ordered or otherwise assigned to serve a term of residential…

NRS 209.433 Credits for offender sentenced on or before June 30, 1969. 1. Every offender who was sentenced to prison on or before June 30, 1969, who has no serious infraction of the regulations of the Department, the terms and conditions of his or her residential confinement, or …

NRS 209.443 Credits for offender sentenced after June 30, 1969, for crime committed before July 1, 1985. 1. Every offender who is sentenced to prison after June 30, 1969, for a crime committed before July 1, 1985, who has no serious infraction of the regulations of the Department…

NRS 209.446 Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 1, 1985, but before July 17, 1997. 1. Every offender who is sentenced to prison for a crime committed on or after July 1, 1985, but before July 17, 1997, who has no serious infraction of the regulatio…

NRS 209.4465 Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 17, 1997. [Effective through June 30, 2027.] 1. An offender who is sentenced to prison for a crime committed on or after July 17, 1997, who has no serious infraction of the regulations of the Departm…

NRS 209.4467 Credits for offender sentenced for crime committed on or after July 1, 2027, or offender sentenced for crime committed before July 1, 2027, who elects to be subject to credit calculation; consideration for early release on parole or from custody; Department to provid…

NRS 209.447 Credits for offender sentenced after June 30, 1991, for crime committed before July 1, 1985, and released on parole. 1. An offender who is sentenced after June 30, 1991, for a crime committed before July 1, 1985, and who is released on parole for a term less than life…

NRS 209.4475 Credits for offender on parole as of January 1, 2004, or released on parole on or after January 1, 2004. [Effective through June 30, 2027.] 1. In addition to any credits earned pursuant to NRS 209.447, an offender who is on parole as of January 1, 2004, or who is rel…

NRS 209.4477 Credits for offender incarcerated during state of emergency due to communicable or infectious disease. [Effective through June 30, 2027.] 1. An offender who is actually incarcerated in an institution or facility of the Department pursuant to his or her sentence durin…

NRS 209.448 Credits for completion of program of treatment for an alcohol or other substance use disorder. [Effective through June 30, 2027.] 1. An offender who has no serious infraction of the regulations of the Department or the laws of the State recorded against the offender m…

NRS 209.449 Credits for completion of vocational education and training or other program. [Effective through June 30, 2027.] 1. An offender who has no serious infraction of the regulations of the Department, the terms and conditions of his or her residential confinement or the la…

NRS 209.4495 Limitation on amount of credit offender may earn. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of NRS 209.432 to 209.453, inclusive, which entitles an offender to receive credit or which authorizes the Director to allow credit for an offender, an offender may not earn more than …