Title 4, State Government

The initial transfer of any career service employee pursuant to the transfer of probation and parole field services and the administration of the community corrections program from the board of parole to the department of correction shall not result in any impairment, interruptio…

The commissioner of correction shall formulate and implement a compensation plan for correctional officers by which such officers are paid at least the average compensation of correctional officers in the southeastern United States with similar qualifications and years of service…

(a) The commissioner shall make rules for the prosecution of the commissioner's powers and may require the performance of additional duties by the officers of the penitentiaries named in § 4-6-102, so as to fully meet the requirements, intents and purposes of this chapter, and pa…

(a) The matron of the state penitentiary shall be appointed by the commissioner of correction, and shall receive a salary, payable monthly upon the warrant of the commissioner of finance and administration. (b) It is the matron's duty to look after the moral conduct and general w…

Whenever, in the judgment of the physician or physicians in charge of any of the charitable or penal institutions of the state, it becomes necessary to perform an operation or give special treatment or care to any inmate of any such institution, if the institution is not equipped…

The commissioner of the department having control of the state prisons shall appoint a dentist, or may appoint dentists, whose duty it is to do the necessary dental work for the inmates of such of these institutions as may be under the commissioner's administration. Such dentist …

The superintendent of each of the institutions specified in § 4-6-110 shall provide a suitable room for the dentist, with all necessary equipment, with the approval of the commissioner, and the same shall be paid for out of the funds appropriated for the maintenance of the instit…

(a) It is the duty of dentists appointed pursuant to § 4-6-110 to inspect at regular intervals the teeth of each inmate of the institutions specified in § 4-6-110, and to keep a record of the work necessary to be done on the teeth of each inmate for the protection and preservatio…

Each dentist appointed pursuant to § 4-6-110 shall receive compensation as fixed by the commissioner, subject to the approval of the department of revenue, payable monthly, and shall receive necessary traveling expenses, when required to make a trip by the commissioner, and shall…

The commissioner vested with the administration of the institutions named in § 4-6-102 may employ an architect or architects skilled in methods of sanitation and the preparations of plans, specifications, estimates and details for buildings, betterments and such items of equipmen…

The commissioner of correction has the authority to detail any engineer or skilled worker connected with the main prison or other penitentiaries under the commissioner's control for special service at the other penitentiaries named in § 4-6-102. Services thus rendered and the exp…

(a) The commissioner of correction shall keep in the commissioner's office a proper and complete set of books and accounts with each penitentiary named in § 4-6-102, which shall clearly show the nature and amount of every expenditure authorized and made at such penitentiary, the …

It is the duty of each warden and superintendent to make to the commissioner of correction a monthly statement showing the entire amount received by such warden or superintendent from all sources, and all expenditures during the month for which the report is made, such report to …

For the purpose of proper regulation, recording and auditing the various expenditures of the penitentiaries named in § 4-6-102, the managing officers thereof shall prepare, and present to the commissioner of correction in triplicate, not less than fifteen (15) days before the fir…

The commissioner of correction shall review the estimates required by § 4-6-118, and in writing advise changes, if any, giving the commissioner's reasons therefor. The officer making the estimate may appeal to the commissioner on any change so advised, due notice of which shall b…

Estimates for periods longer than one (1) month may be made in the same manner specified in § 4-6-118 by the managing officer for staple articles designated by the commissioner of correction, or for other supplies.

Each estimate under §§ 4-6-118 — 4-6-123 may include a contingent fund, not to exceed three percent (3%) of the total amount for maintenance for the period of the estimate, for which no detailed account need be given in the estimate, but such funds shall be drawn upon only in due…

The commissioner of correction shall return to the managing officer one (1) copy of every estimate with the commissioner's approval or alterations in writing, furnishing one (1) copy to the commissioner of finance and administration and filing the third in the office of the commi…

The commissioner of finance and administration shall ascertain that the estimates so received do not exceed the respective appropriations and shall draw warrants on the state treasurer monthly for the salary and contingent funds for each institution, which shall be placed in the …

Itemized payrolls or vouchers for penitentiaries named in § 4-6-102 shall be drawn in triplicate. One (1) copy shall be kept on file by the managing officer, two (2) sent to the commissioner of correction, who upon approval shall send one (1) copy to the commissioner of finance a…

(1) Each voucher shall contain a statement of the managing officer certifying that:(1) The supplies and materials purchased conformed to the contract and samples, and the improvements or repairs made or special services rendered were fully satisfactory;(2) The approving officer w…

The statement provided for in § 4-6-125 shall be made according to forms provided by the commissioner of correction; provided, that payrolls for temporary employees in cases of emergency may be made at any time after the services are performed, but all such payrolls shall be cert…

(a) The state treasurer has charge of all funds under the jurisdiction of the department having control of the penitentiaries named in § 4-6-102, and shall pay out the same only in accordance with this chapter. (b) The moneys designated and approved by the commissioners of correc…

(a) The appropriations for state penal, reformatory or charitable institutions shall be of three (3) classes:(1) Maintenance;(2) Ordinary repairs and improvements; and(3) Specific purposes. (1) Maintenance; (2) Ordinary repairs and improvements; and (3) Specific purposes. (b) App…

Each superintendent and warden of an institution named in § 4-6-102 shall, before each session of the general assembly, present to the department of correction an itemized list of appropriations desired for maintenance, repairs, and improvements and special purposes as such super…

The commissioner having control of such institution shall tabulate such statements with the commissioner's recommendations. It shall then be the duty of the commissioner to present the needs of the institutions to the general assembly.

For the purpose of requesting appropriations from the general assembly, a per capita allowance for the inmates, patients and pupils of each of the institutions shall be arrived at and a total allowance for maintenance asked for on the basis of actual number and estimated increase…

Every special need shall be itemized and the appropriation asked for that specific purpose.

The commissioner of correction shall furnish to the governor and to the general assembly such information as may be required regarding appropriations requested.

It is the intent that all requests for appropriations for penitentiaries named in § 4-6-102 shall be placed under sole control of the commissioner having control of such penitentiary, and that appropriations for the maintenance and for ordinary repairs and improvements thereof sh…

(a) All contracts covering the sale or disposal of the output of the state mines, or any factories or industries operated by the state, must be submitted to the commissioner of correction for the commissioner's approval. (b) All such contracts shall, before the same become effect…

(a) The commissioner of correction, with the approval of the commissioner of general services, is hereby authorized to make such disposition by way of sale of slate and other waste products of the coal mines owned and operated by the state as the commissioner of correction may de…

The commissioner of correction, by and with the consent and approval of the governor, is authorized to enter into such contracts for the sale of all coal mined at the state mines, situated at Petros, as are permitted by § 41-22-106, the contracts to be made at such prices and cov…

It is unlawful for any person having supervision or control of inmates of the department of correction to use, or allow to be used, such inmates for personal gain or to allow such inmates to work on private property, except as provided by law.

A violation of § 4-6-138 is a Class E felony.

(a) The commissioner of correction shall keep in the commissioner's own office, accessible only to the commissioner's secretary, and proper clerks, except by the commissioner's consent, or the orders of the judge of a court of record, a record showing the name, residence, sex, ag…

The governor, in the governor's discretion, may at any time order an investigation by the department having control of the management of any penal, reformatory or charitable institution of the state, and, in making such investigation, the commissioner has the power to send for pe…

No expenditures for traveling expenses to other states, or for attending an interstate or national convention or association, shall be made by any member or employee of the department of correction or by any officer of an institution under its control, unless authority is granted…

(a) The penal and reformatory institutions under the control of the commissioner of correction shall be a special school district, which shall be given the same funding consideration for federal funds that special schools within the state are given. (b) The schools within such in…

(a) There is created a library region to be composed of the penal and reformatory institutions under the control of the department of correction. (b) The library shall have a branch library at each of the penal and reformatory institutions. (c) A librarian shall be appointed who …

The clerks of all trial courts exercising criminal jurisdiction, the superintendents of all local workhouses, and all jailers shall, upon the request of the department of correction, furnish to the department pertinent information relating to felony offenders committed to local w…

(a) The commissioner of correction is authorized to permanently confiscate weapons, alcohol, controlled substances, controlled substance analogues, cash and other items that could be detrimental to institutional security or adversely affect an inmate's rehabilitation, if such ite…

(a) There is established a separate department of correction confiscated cash fund. (b) All moneys collected as contraband from the inmate population at any of the facilities operated by or under the authority of the department of correction shall be paid over to the department o…

Whenever a correctional officer or youth service worker is injured in the line of duty and such injury disables such person from performing such person's regular duties, whether such disability is temporary or permanent, it is lawful for the commissioner of correction, or the com…

(a) Persons who receive certified occupational, career, or technical training in schools or correctional institutions pursuant to this chapter are eligible to receive equivalent credit towards the receipt of an occupational license relating to the training received. (b) (1) The o…

(a) When a canine that was utilized in the service of the department of correction is retired due to age, service-related injury, or any other reason, and the canine is retired to the care and custody of a department of correction employee, whether active or retired, the departme…