Title 16

NRS 209.248 Account for disbursements to offenders: Establishment; use; reimbursement. 1. The Department shall establish in any insured bank, credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank doing business in this state an account for disbursements to offenders. The bal…

NRS 209.249 Package program for offenders: Establishment; prohibition on participation. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, the Director shall establish and maintain a package program for offenders. 2. The Director may prohibit an offender from participating i…

NRS 209.251 Books and papers kept by Board or Director: Inspection; delivery to successors. All books and papers kept by or under the direction of the Secretary of the Board or the Director shall: 1. At all times, on all legal days, be open to the inspection of the members of the…

NRS 209.253 Treatment of offenders with human immunodeficiency virus. 1. The Department or the operator of a private facility or institution shall not enter into a contract or other agreement with any person or entity to provide medical services to offenders who are diagnosed wit…

NRS 209.254 Department to provide list of persons eligible for parole. At least 40 days before any scheduled action of the State Board of Parole Commissioners, the Department shall provide to the Executive Secretary of the Board a list of each person who is eligible for parole. T…

NRS 209.261 Transportation of offender to appropriate institution or facility. 1. Upon notification by the county clerk of any county in this State that a person is being held under sentence of imprisonment in the state prison, the Director shall immediately provide for the trans…

NRS 209.273 Unnecessary expense not allowed; offenders transported collectively. The officer in charge shall transport at the same time all persons awaiting transportation, and the Board shall not allow any extra expense incurred by the making of unnecessary trips in transporting…

NRS 209.274 Transportation of offender to appear before court. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, when an offender is required or requested to appear before a court in this state, the Department shall transport the offender to and from court on the day scheduled for…

NRS 209.2745 Payment for transportation of offender to appear as witness in action for small claims. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, if an offender has filed an action for small claims pursuant to chapter 73 of NRS and the offender requests to appear as a witness…

NRS 209.276 Reimbursement for transportation of witness in action by offender concerning civil rights. If an offender has filed an action in federal court alleging a violation of his or her civil rights and the offender requests that any other offender appear as a witness in the …

NRS 209.281 Temporary interstate transportation. An officer of the Department may transport an offender temporarily to or through any state which adjoins the State of Nevada if: 1. The offender will perform general labor in connection with forestry projects and will be directly r…

NRS 209.291 Transfer of offenders: Within Department; to other governmental agencies; between United States and foreign country. 1. The Director may transfer an offender: (a) From one institution or facility to another within the Department; or (b) To other governmental agencies,…

NRS 209.293 Transfer of offender to correctional institution of another state. The Director may transfer to a correctional institution of another state any offender who is sentenced in that state to serve a term of imprisonment which is concurrent with and at least as long as the…

NRS 209.301 Transfer of minors to state facility for detention of children. 1. The Department may transfer a person who is a minor and who is confined in an institution or facility of the Department to a state facility for the detention of children if the superintendent of the fa…

NRS 209.311 Transfer of persons detained in local facility to institution or facility of Department for safekeeping. 1. At the request of a county sheriff or the chief of police of a city, the Director may authorize the transfer of a person detained in a local facility to an inst…

NRS 209.321 Transfer of offender for psychiatric observation or treatment. The Director may arrange for the transfer of an offender to other appropriate governmental agencies for psychiatric observation, evaluation or stabilization pursuant to an agreement with the agency for suc…

NRS 209.331 Medical evaluation or treatment of offender outside institution or facility. An offender may be taken outside an institution or facility under appropriate precautions to prevent the offender’s escape, when necessary for medical evaluation or treatment, as determined b…

NRS 209.341 Director to establish system of initial classification and evaluation for offenders; assignment of offender to appropriate institution or facility of Department; administration of risk and needs assessment; validation study. 1. The Director shall: (a) Establish, with …

NRS 209.345 Director to establish system to track expenses related to housing youthful offenders; report regarding expenses tracked by system. 1. The Director shall establish a system to track expenses that are directly related to housing youthful offenders in the institutions an…

NRS 209.351 Director to establish system of ongoing classification and evaluation for offenders and to maintain records. The Director shall: 1. Establish a system of ongoing classification and evaluation to ensure the individualized custody, care and training of offenders under t…

NRS 209.3515 Director may request or provide medical or mental health records of certain offenders. 1. The Director, through the Medical Director, may request from the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Human Services access to any records in its posses…

NRS 209.3517 Director may apply for determination of eligibility for Medicaid on behalf of offender. The Director of the Department or his or her designee may, after informing an offender, apply for a determination of eligibility for Medicaid on behalf of the offender. (Added to …

NRS 209.352 Director may establish system for offender management. The Director may establish, with the approval of the Board, a system for offender management, to be implemented in each institution and facility of the Department, which consists of structured living programs for …

NRS 209.353 Department to collect and submit information regarding offenders to Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History. The Department shall collect and submit to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History: 1. A record of: (a) The name and fi…

NRS 209.354 Department to monitor each private facility or institution which houses prisoners who are incarcerated pursuant to authority of another state; reimbursement for costs of such monitoring. 1. The Department shall monitor each private facility or institution which houses…

NRS 209.356 Director to establish program of regimental discipline. Repealed. (See chapter 99, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 530.)

NRS 209.358 Director to adopt regulations regarding offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender non-binary and intersex. The Director shall, with the approval of the Board, adopt regulations prescribing standards in each institution and facility of the Department…

NRS 209.361 Director to adopt regulations and penalties for violations. The Director shall: 1. Adopt with the approval of the Board such regulations as are necessary to: (a) Maintain proper custody of an offender in accordance with the offender’s current classification. (b) Preve…

NRS 209.362 Adoption of policy for interactions between male correctional staff member and woman who is incarcerated; requirements of policy. 1. Subject to the approval of the Director, the warden of each institution and the manager of each facility shall adopt a policy setting f…

NRS 209.365 Director to establish program to prevent offenders from possessing or receiving certain publications. 1. 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,…

NRS 209.367 Director to establish program for testing of offenders for use of alcohol and controlled substances. 1. The Director shall establish a program, to be carried out within each facility and institution, that provides for periodic testing of offenders for use of alcohol a…

NRS 209.368 Solitary confinement: Regulations. The Director shall adopt, with the approval of the Board, such regulations as are necessary to ensure that solitary confinement may only be used: 1. As a last resort, when the offender must be separated from the general population in…

NRS 209.3683 Solitary confinement: Limitation on placement of offender in solitary confinement; removal of offender from solitary confinement; rights and privileges of offender placed in solitary confinement. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 209.3685 or 209.369, the Departm…

NRS 209.3685 Solitary confinement: Continuation of placement of offender in solitary confinement; limitations; review of and individualized treatment plan for offender; removal of offender from solitary confinement upon request; report; recording of review; retention of certain d…

NRS 209.369 Limitation on imposition of disciplinary segregation; placement in solitary confinement for safety of offender; procedure for imposition of disciplinary segregation; requirement for psychological evaluation; request for release; conditions of disciplinary segregation.…

NRS 209.371 Corporal punishment and inhumane treatment prohibited. Corporal punishment and inhumane treatment of offenders are prohibited. (Added to NRS by 1977, 850)

NRS 209.375 Care of offender who is pregnant: Access to certain services required; adoption of certain policies concerning care of offenders who are pregnant required; regulations. 1. The Department shall provide an offender who is pregnant and in the custody of the Department ac…

NRS 209.376 Care of offender who is pregnant: Limitations on use of restraints on offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or in the postpartum period; report. 1. No restraints of any kind may be used on an offender who is in labor, delivering her baby or in the postpartum p…

NRS 209.381 Diet, housing and hygiene of offenders; medical and dental services of institutions and facilities. 1. Each offender in an institution or facility of the Department must be provided a healthful diet and appropriate, sanitary housing. 2. The Director with the approval …

NRS 209.3813 Access to prescription medication. If an offender in the custody of the Department requires prescription medication for any physical or mental illness, the Department shall ensure that: 1. If the prescription is new, the prescription is transmitted to a licensed phar…

NRS 209.3814 Completion of medical release of information form by offender; notification of certain persons if offender is hospitalized for or diagnosed with critical medical condition. 1. The Department shall ensure that each offender: (a) Completes a medical release of informat…

NRS 209.3815 Autopsy of offenders. The Director, in consultation with the Medical Director and the Inspector General of the Department, shall request the coroner, or any other person so authorized, to conduct an autopsy of any offender who dies while in the custody of the Departm…

NRS 209.3817 Care of women in custody: Completion of form at intake; access to certain services; provision of feminine hygiene products; regulations. 1. The Department shall ensure that each woman who is assigned to an institution or facility completes a form at the time of intak…

NRS 209.382 Chief Medical Officer to examine and report on medical and dental services, diet of offenders, sanitation and safety in institutions and facilities. 1. The Chief Medical Officer shall periodically examine and shall report to the Board semiannually upon the following o…

NRS 209.3825 Order by court affecting conditions of confinement of prisoner; Director entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a court issuing an order at the request of a prisoner in a state prison that affects t…

NRS 209.387 Legislative findings and declarations regarding programs for education of offenders. The Legislature finds and declares that the program for general education of offenders and the program of education of offenders in English as a second language are acts of grace of t…