Title 64, Title 64: State Institutions

64-13-10.7. Release of inmates who are not lawfully present in the United States -- Notification to and coordination with federal authorities. (1) As soon as practicable before the day of release, but at least five business days before the day of release, the department shall not…

64-13-12. Assistance to sheriffs. Where resources permit, the department may assist county sheriffs in the development of jail standards, in the review of jail facilities, and shall provide other services as requested by the sheriffs.

64-13-13. Administrators. The executive director shall appoint deputy directors, wardens, regional administrators, and other administrators as necessary to administer correctional programs. Deputy directors, wardens, and regional administrators shall have experience in correction…

64-13-14. Secure correctional facilities. (1) The department shall maintain and operate secure correctional facilities for the incarceration of offenders. (2) For each compound of secure correctional facilities, as established by the executive director, wardens shall be appointed…

64-13-14.5. Limits of confinement place -- Release status -- Work release. (1) The department may extend the limits of the place of confinement of an inmate when, as established by department policies and procedures, there is cause to believe the inmate will honor the trust, by a…

64-13-14.7. Victim notification of offender's release. (1) As used in this section: "Offender" means an individual who committed an act of criminally injurious conduct against the victim and has been sentenced to incarceration in the custody of the department. "Victim" means an i…

64-13-15. Property of offender -- Storage and disposal. (1) Offenders may retain personal property at correctional facilities only as authorized by the department. An offender's property which is retained by the department shall be inventoried and placed in storage by the departm…

64-13-16. Inmate employment. (1) The department may employ inmates, unless incapable of employment because of sickness or other infirmity or for security reasons, to the degree that funding and available resources allow. An offender may not be employed on work which benefits any …

64-13-17. Visitors to correctional facilities -- Correspondence. (1) The following persons may visit correctional facilities without the consent of the department: the governor; the attorney general; a justice or judge of the courts of record; members of the Board of Pardons and …

64-13-18. Copy of sentence of incarceration. The officer delivering any offender for incarceration shall deliver to the department a certified copy of the sentence received by the officer from the clerk of the court. The department shall give the officer a certificate of delivery…

64-13-19. Labor at correctional facilities. (1) The department shall determine the types of labor to be pursued, and what kind, quality, and quantity of goods, materials, and supplies shall be produced, manufactured, or repaired at correctional facilities. Contracts may be made f…

64-13-2. Creation of department. There is created a Department of Corrections, under the general supervision of the executive director of the department. The department is the state authority for corrections.

64-13-20. Investigative services -- Presentence investigation reports. (1) The department shall: provide investigative services and prepare reports to: assist the courts in sentencing; assist the Board of Pardons and Parole in its decision-making responsibilities regarding offend…

64-13-21.5. Powers of correctional officers and POST certified correctional enforcement or investigation officers. (1) Employees of the department who are designated by the executive director as correctional officers may exercise the powers and authority of a correctional officer…

64-13-23. Offender's income, debt, and finances -- Department responsibilities concerning offender debt and financial information. (1) The department may require each offender, while in the custody of the department or while on probation or parole, to place funds received or earn…

64-13-24. Standards for staff training. (1) To assure the safe and professional operation of correctional programs, the department shall establish policies setting minimum standards for the basic training of all staff upon employment, and the subsequent regular training of staff,…

64-13-25. Standards for programs. (1) To promote accountability and to ensure safe and professional operation of correctional programs, the department shall establish minimum standards for the organization and operation of the department's programs, including collaborating with t…

64-13-25.1. Medication assisted treatment plan. (1) As used in this section, "medication assisted treatment plan" means a prescription plan to use a medication, such as buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone, to treat substance use withdrawal symptoms or an opioid use disorder. …

64-13-26. Private providers of services. (1) Subject to Subsection, the department may contract with a private provider or another agency for the provision of care, treatment, and supervision of an offender committed to the care and custody of the department. 64-14-204(1)(b) (2) …

64-13-27. Records -- Access. (1) The Criminal Investigations and Technical Services Division of the Department of Public Safety, established in Section, county attorneys' offices, and state and local law enforcement agencies shall furnish to the department upon request a copy of …

64-13-3. Executive director. (1) The executive director shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. (2) The executive director shall be experienced and knowledgeable in the field of corrections and shall have training in criminology and penology.…

64-13-30. Expenses incurred by offenders -- Payment to department or county jail -- Medical care expenses and copayments. (1) The department or county jail may require an inmate to make a copayment for medical and dental services provided by the department or county jail. For ser…

64-13-30.5. Payment by inmate for postsecondary educational tuition. (1) An inmate participating in a postsecondary education program through the department shall pay to the department at the time of enrollment 50% of the costs of the postsecondary education tuition. If an inmate…

64-13-31. Emergencies. In the case of riots, disturbances, or other emergencies at correctional facilities, the Department of Corrections has authority to direct the resolution of the emergencies. The department may request and coordinate the assistance of other state and local a…

64-13-32. Discipline of offenders -- Use of force. (1) If an offender offers violence to an officer or other employee of the Department of Corrections, or to another offender, or to any other person; attempts to damage or damages any corrections property; attempts to escape; or r…

64-13-33. Fines for violation of department rules -- Debt collection. (1) Following an administrative hearing, the department is authorized to: assess a reasonable fine against the offender for expenses incurred by the department as a result of the offender's violation of departm…

64-13-34. Safety of offenders. In case of disaster or acts of God that threaten the safety of inmates or the security of a secure correctional facility, inmates may be moved to a suitable place of security. Inmates shall be returned to a correctional facility as soon as it is pra…

64-13-36. Testing of prisoners for AIDS and HIV infection -- Medical care -- Department authority. (1) As used in this section: "Prisoner" means a person who has been adjudicated and found guilty of a criminal offense and who is in the custody of and under the jurisdiction of the…

64-13-37. Department authorized to test offenders for communicable disease. (1) As used in this section, "communicable disease" means: an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products, which arises through transmission of that agent or its products from a reser…

64-13-38. Emergency release due to overcrowding. (1) Definitions: "Maximum capacity" means every physical and funded prison bed is occupied by an inmate. "Operational capacity" means 96.5% of every physical and funded bed is occupied by an inmate. "Emergency release capacity" mea…

64-13-39. Standards for health care facilities. All health care facilities, as defined in Section, owned or operated by the department shall apply for and meet the requirements for accreditation by the National Commission for Correctional Health Care. The department shall begin t…

64-13-39.5. Definitions -- Health care for chronically or terminally ill offenders -- Notice to health care facility. (1) As used in this section: "Department or agency" means the Utah Department of Corrections or a department of corrections or government entity responsible for p…

64-13-39.6. Penalty. Any person who willfully violates Subsectionis guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

64-13-40. Worship for native American inmates. (1) As used in this section: "Items used in religious ceremonies" includes cedar, corn husks, corn pollen, corn meal, eagle and other feathers, sage, sweet grass, tobacco, pipes, willow, drums, gourds, lava rock, medicine bundles, ba…

64-13-41. Limitations on offender access to sexually explicit material. (1) As used in this section: "Commercially published information or material" means any book, booklet, pamphlet, magazine, periodical, newsletter, or similar document, including stationery and greeting cards,…

64-13-42. Prison Telephone Surcharge Account -- Funding inmate and offender education and training programs. (1) There is created within the General Fund a restricted account known as the Prison Telephone Surcharge Account. The Prison Telephone Surcharge Account consists of: reve…

64-13-43. Use of state vehicles by department personnel. The executive director may authorize the use of a state vehicle for: (1) official and commute purposes for a department employee who: supervises probationers or parolees; or investigates the criminal activity of inmates, pr…

64-13-44. Posthumous organ donations by inmates. (1) As used in this section: "Document of gift" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 26B-8-301 "Sign" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 26B-8-301 (2) The Utah Department of Corrections shall make avai…

64-13-45. Department reporting requirements. (1) As used in this section: "Biological sex at birth" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 26B-8-101 "In-custody death" means an inmate death that occurs while the inmate is in the custody of the department. "In-custody …

64-13-46. Pregnant inmates. (1) As used in this section: "Postpartum recovery" means the period of 12 weeks after the day on which a pregnant inmate gives birth. "Restraints" means any physical restraint or mechanical device used to control the movement of an inmate's body or lim…

64-13-46.1. Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board -- Duties -- Rulemaking. (1) As used in this part: "Advisory board" means the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board. "Correctional facility" means a facility operated by the department or a …

64-13-47. Prison Sexual Assault Prevention Program. (1) The department shall, in accordance with, make rules establishing policies and procedures regarding sexual assaults that occur in correctional facilities. Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act (2) The rule…

64-13-48. Educational and career-readiness programs. (1) The department shall, in accordance with Subsection, ensure that appropriate evidence-based and evidence-informed educational or career-readiness programs are made available to an inmate as soon as practicable after the cre…

64-13-49. Inmate medical notification. (1) As used in this section, "health care facility" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 26B-2-201 (2) Upon intake of an inmate, a correctional facility shall provide the inmate with a form that allows the inmate to designate a…

64-13-50. Inmate program requirements -- Records -- Reporting. (1) As used in this section: "Board" means the Board of Pardons and Parole. "Board hearing" means a hearing established under Subsection, which is the earliest possible point at which the board may consider an inmate'…

64-13-51. Drug abuse and trafficking unit. (1) The department shall create a drug abuse and trafficking unit within the department. (2) The drug abuse and trafficking unit created in Subsectionshall: (1) develop and implement strategies to combat drug abuse and trafficking by: of…