Title 16

NRS 212.050 Authority to offer reward in certain cases. 1. If any person who has been sentenced to confinement in the state prison, by any court having competent authority within this State, escapes therefrom, or is charged with murder or the perpetration of any crime punishable …

NRS 212.070 Expenses of prosecuting prisoner and person acting in concert with prisoner who escapes or commits crime while incarcerated. 1. The expenses and costs of prosecuting any person for escaping from, or breaking out of, the state prison, or attempting so to do, or for the…

NRS 212.080 Recapture and imprisonment. Every person in custody, under sentence of imprisonment for any crime, who shall escape from custody, may be recaptured and imprisoned for a term equal to the unexpired portion of the original term. [1911 C&P § 73; RL § 6338; NCL § 10022]

NRS 212.090 Penalties for prisoner who escapes. A prisoner confined in a prison, or being in the lawful custody of an officer or other person, who escapes or attempts to escape from prison or custody, if the prisoner is held on a charge, conviction or sentence of: 1. A felony, sh…

NRS 212.093 Manufacture or possession by prisoner of items adapted, designed or commonly used to escape prohibited; penalty; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a prisoner who is in lawful custody or confinement, other than residential confinement, shall n…

NRS 212.095 Unauthorized absences which constitute escape from prison; punishment; exception. 1. Any unauthorized absence from the place of assignment by an offender who is on temporary furlough, participating in a work or educational release program or otherwise in a classificat…

NRS 212.100 Aiding prisoner to escape. A person who, with the intent to effect or facilitate the escape of a prisoner, whether the escape is effected or attempted or not, conveys or sends to a prisoner any information or aid, or conveys or sends into a prison any disguise, instru…

NRS 212.110 Custodian permitting escape. A person who willfully allows a prisoner lawfully in the custody of the person to escape, or connives at or assists such an escape, or willfully omits any act or duty by reason of which an escape is occasioned, contributed to or assisted, …

NRS 212.120 Ministerial officer permitting escape. An officer who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or promise thereof, to procure, assist, connive at or permit any prisoner in the custody of the officer to escape, whether the escape …

NRS 212.130 Concealing escaped prisoner. A person who knowingly conceals, or harbors for the purpose of concealment, a prisoner who has escaped or is escaping from custody shall be punished, according to the charge or conviction or sentence upon which the prisoner was held: 1. Fo…

NRS 212.135 Definitions. As used in NRS 212.135 to 212.189, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 212.137, 212.138 and 212.139 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2015, 897)

NRS 212.137 “Contractor” defined. “Contractor” means a person who provides services on a recurring basis to a prison pursuant to a contractual agreement with the Department of Corrections or the sheriff, chief of police or other officer responsible for the operation of the prison…

NRS 212.138 “Employee” defined. “Employee” means a person who works directly for a prison. (Added to NRS by 2015, 897)

NRS 212.139 “Volunteer” defined. “Volunteer” means a person who donates his or her time and effort on a recurring basis to a prison to enhance the activities and programs of the prison. (Added to NRS by 2015, 897)

NRS 212.140 Unauthorized communication with prisoner. Every person who, not being authorized by law or by any officer authorized thereby, shall have any verbal communication with any prisoner in any jail, prison or other penal institution, or shall bring into or convey out of the…

NRS 212.150 Communication with person charged or convicted of felony in county jail. 1. A person shall not visit, or in any manner communicate with, any prisoner convicted of or charged with any felony, imprisoned in the county jail, other than the officer having such prisoner in…

NRS 212.160 Furnishing weapon, facsimile, intoxicant or controlled substance to state prisoner; possession of controlled substance, marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia by state prisoner. 1. A person, who is not authorized by law, who knowingly furnishes, attempts to furnish, or …

NRS 212.165 Prohibition on furnishing portable telecommunications device to prisoner and on possession of such devices in jail or institution or facility of Department of Corrections; penalties; petition for modification of sentence. 1. A person shall not, without lawful authoriz…

NRS 212.170 Furnishing intoxicant to person lawfully confined in jail or detention facility. 1. Any person who sells, barters, exchanges or in any manner disposes of any spirituous or malt liquor or beverage to any person confined in any county or city jail or detention facility …

NRS 212.180 Sale of liquor within half mile of institution of Department of Corrections unlawful; restriction on granting of new licenses; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, it is unlawful for any person, unless the person was licensed to sell alcoholic b…

NRS 212.185 Possession or control of dangerous weapon or facsimile by incarcerated person prohibited. 1. A person who is incarcerated in the state prison or any county or city jail or detention facility or other correctional facility in this State, or is transferred for medical o…

NRS 212.187 Voluntary sexual conduct between prisoner and person other than employee of or contractor or volunteer for prison; penalty. 1. A prisoner who is in lawful custody or confinement, other than in the custody of the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Pu…

NRS 212.188 Sexual abuse of prisoner or unauthorized custodial conduct by employee of or contractor or volunteer for prison; penalties. 1. An employee of or a contractor or volunteer for a prison who voluntarily engages in, or attempts to engage in, with a prisoner who is in lawf…

NRS 212.189 Unlawful acts related to human excrement or bodily fluid; penalty; investigation; testing for communicable diseases; plea bargaining prohibited. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 10, a prisoner who is under lawful arrest, in lawful custody or in lawful con…

NRS 212.1895 Applicability of certain provisions to custodian and prisoner assigned to private facility or institution; training to perform duties of correctional officer at private facility or institution; reimbursement to State for expenses relating to prisoner who escapes from…

NRS 212.190 Penalty. If any person shall, willfully and intentionally, break down, pull down, or otherwise destroy or injure, in whole or in part, any public jail or other place of confinement, every person so offending is guilty of a public offense proportionate to the value of …

NRS 212.220 Penalties for absence without authorization or tampering with electronic device; restitution. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 213.400, a person who has been arrested for, charged with or convicted of a felony or a gross misdemeanor, who is being supervised elec…