Title LX, Correction and Punishment

A minor erroneously committed to the center may be discharged by a justice of the superior court, upon petition of the county attorney or a selectman of the town or mayor of the city in which the minor resides, when continued commitment is unnecessary. Upon petition to the superi…

I. If a minor committed or detained at the center shall be found by the department to be incorrigible and dangerous to the discipline of the center, the department may order the minor to be transferred and committed to another institution with facilities for minors for a time not…

The terms and condition of transfer and commitment of a child pursuant to RSA 621:27 may be modified at the discretion of the department, as with released children.

A written order of the commissioner shall authorize the keeper of any state, county, city, or town facility to receive and keep, or to discharge into the keeping of an employee of the center, any child transferred pursuant to RSA 621:27.

In this chapter: I. "Administrative release to parole" means an administrative procedure to provide a period of community adjustment before parole status is granted. I-a. "Board" means the juvenile parole board established in RSA 170-H:3. II. "Child," "minor," or "juvenile" means…

Accounts shall be established to administer the following funds: I. The children's benefit fund, a budgetary line item, shall be used for allowances to residents, payment to residents for their services, funding for resident projects, and other expenditures directly benefiting th…

I. If it appears that the parent or estate of a child who is subject to the provisions of this chapter is able to contribute to the support of the child, the court may enter an order requiring the parent, guardian, or executor of the child's estate to pay a reasonable sum toward …

No person shall have in his or her possession, with the intent to deliver or otherwise convey to any child committed to or detained at the center, any article contrary to the rules of the center. No person shall deposit or conceal any such item in or about the center, in any buil…

Certain employees of the department who satisfactorily complete a prescribed course of instruction and are certified by the commissioner shall be designated as ex officio constables to possess general police powers, including the power of arrest, but limited as follows: I. These …

When a child who is committed to the center escapes or is in violation of the parole agreement by being absent from placement, and is apprehended at a distance from the center requiring expenditure of funds for transportation to the center, the commissioner may petition a court h…

Notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the contrary, the department may accept any youthful offender who is transferred to the youth development center pursuant to RSA 651:17-a for service of his or her adult sentence of incarceration until the youth reaches the age of 1…

I. The commissioner shall maintain the youth services center for such purposes as the commissioner shall determine, which may include, but are not limited to, the purposes described in RSA 621-A:5. II. The commissioner shall adopt rules under RSA 541-a relative to: (a) The discha…

With the approval of the fiscal committee, the department shall be authorized to take, hold, and manage, in trust for the state, lands, money, or other property granted, devised, or bequeathed for the use of the center, and to sell and convey the lands, money, or other property a…

The youth services center may be used for the following purposes: I. Receiving facility for the temporary detention of children who are awaiting disposition of the court pursuant to RSA 169-B:14. II. Receiving facility for children determined educationally disabled pursuant to RS…

I. Children, subject to proceedings in juvenile court, may be admitted to the youth services center for temporary detention while awaiting disposition of the court pursuant to RSA 169-B:14, for educational services pursuant to RSA 186-C, RSA 169-B, RSA 169-C, or RSA 169-D, only u…

All books of account and documents relating to the center shall be open to examination by the bank commissioner, the governor and council, or either legislative branch.

I. Full and complete records shall be kept by the commissioner of the care and study of each child admitted to the youth services center. The records shall not be open to the inspection of any persons not on the staff of the commissioner except that such records shall be availabl…

The commissioner shall adopt and may amend bylaws for the governance of the center and for the management of its concerns, and shall prescribe in the bylaws the powers and duties of the persons connected with the center, in conformity with the rules of the department of personnel…

The state fire marshal, with the assistance of the department of health and human services and the commissioner of the department of youth center development services, shall inspect all youth development facilities once every 6 months. In order to insure compliance with the fire …

The department shall ensure that children sent to the center are properly accounted for and are provided with those services to which they are entitled by statute, the bylaws of the center, and other directives.

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a minor over whom the court has exercised jurisdiction pursuant to RSA 169-B:4, I or retained jurisdiction pursuant to RSA 169-B:4, V(c), may be committed or continue to be committed at the center pursuant to RSA 169-B:19, I(j…

Whenever a treaty is in force between the United States and a foreign country providing for the transfer or exchange of convicted offenders to the country of which they are citizens or nationals, the governor may, on behalf of the state and subject to the terms of the treaty, aut…

This chapter may be cited as the New England interstate corrections compact.

This chapter may be cited as the national interstate corrections compact.

The commissioner of corrections shall receive all convicts sentenced to confinement to hard labor by any court of the United States within this state who may be delivered to him by the marshal of the district or his deputy, and shall safely keep such convicts until discharged by …

A person employed in the prisons is guilty of a misdemeanor if he negligently suffers a prisoner to be at large, or to be visited, comforted, or relieved contrary to the regulations of the prisons or the terms of the sentence of the prisoner, and is guilty of a class B felony if …

The commissioner of corrections may offer suitable encouragement and indulgences to those convicts who distinguish themselves by obedience, industry, and faithfulness, and may punish any convict guilty of insolence or ill language to any officer of the prisons or guilty of obstin…

Whenever a prisoner desires to communicate with the governor and council, the commissioner of corrections, or the attorney general, he shall be permitted to do so in a direct manner, without any supervision being exercised over his letters by the prison officials or other persons…

The commissioner of corrections may furnish, at the expense of the state, to each convict discharged from the prisons a suit of clothes, decent and suitable for the season in which he is discharged, and a sum of money, not more than $ 100.

If any convict sentenced to confinement to hard labor or solitary imprisonment shall, at the time of his sentence, be in custody of the sheriff on civil process, mesne or final, the sheriff shall, on the delivery of such convict to the commissioner of corrections, leave with the …

The commissioner of corrections shall detain a convict committed under the circumstances provided for in RSA 622:17 by virtue of the civil process as well as of his sentence, and, if, at the expiration of the sentence, the civil process is not withdrawn, discharged, satisfied, or…

If judgment shall be rendered against a person holding the office of commissioner of corrections, for a sum of money, the execution thereon shall be against his goods, chattels, and lands, but not against his body; and, if the execution is returned unsatisfied, the creditor may f…

The New England interstate corrections compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with any other of the hereinafter mentioned states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: New England Interstate Corrections Compact Article I Purpose a…

The state prisons shall be under the superintendence and general management of the commissioner of corrections.

The national interstate corrections compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with any other states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: Interstate Corrections Compact Article I Purpose and Policy The party states, desiring by comm…

The wardens of the New Hampshire state prisons shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner and shall be unclassified employees qualified by education and experience.

The secretary shall immediately notify the commissioner of corrections thereof, in writing, with the day on which the copy was filed. If the execution shall remain unsatisfied for the space of 90 days after such notification, the commissioner of corrections shall be removed from …

The rules and regulations established for the government of any prison, county correctional facility, or public charitable or reformatory institution shall provide for suitable religious instruction and ministration to the inmates.

The inmates shall have freedom of religious belief and freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences, but this shall not permit anything inconsistent with proper discipline and management or any expense beyond that made under RSA 622:22.

No person shall deliver or procure to be delivered or have in his or her possession with intent to deliver to a prisoner confined in the state prisons, or deposit or conceal in or about the prisons, or in any building or upon any land appurtenant thereto, or in any vehicle enteri…

Any person who violates any provision of RSA 622:24 shall be guilty of a class B felony.

I. The commissioner of corrections may contract for the sale or lease of goods and products which are produced at the state prisons on the open market at competitive prices, when, in his opinion, such sale or lease is in the best interests of the inmates and of the prisons and do…

No goods, wares, or merchandise, manufactured, or mined wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners of other states, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation, shall be sold on the open market, or be sold to, or exchanged with, an institution of this state or with any of…

No articles or supplies, except printing, such as are manufactured at the state prisons or for the state prisons in accordance with arrangements with other prison systems shall be purchased from any other source for the state or its departments or institutions if the division of …

I. An industries inventory account shall be maintained to enable the state prisons to implement RSA 622:26-28. All permanent personnel, operating expenses, materials, supplies, overtime and purchase and repair of equipment determined to be necessary for the growing or manufacture…

The commissioner of corrections may provide for the payment to prisoners confined in the state prisons of such pecuniary earnings, and render to their families such pecuniary assistance, as the commissioner of corrections may deem proper, under such rules as he may prescribe.