Title 7, Criminal Procedure

Establishment of county boards; membership; terms of office; compensation; meetings; officers. (a) A county may establish, or two (2) or more counties may agree to establish jointly, a community corrections board in accordance with this act. (b) A corrections board shall consist …

Powers and duties of boards. (a) Subject to this act, a corrections board may: (i) Contract with the department to accept offenders, parolees and inmates for placement in an adult community correctional facility or program operating under a contract for services with the correcti…

Required guidelines in contracts; review by local government. (a) Every contract for services entered into pursuant to this act between a corrections board and a local unit of government or a nongovernmental agency shall provide guidelines for the operation of the adult community…

Placement of offender in program by court; placement by department as administrative sanction. (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, following an eligible adult offender's conviction or his plea of guilty, the sentencing court may, as a condition of probation, order that…

Transfer of inmate to facility by department. (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, and upon recommendation of the warden or superintendent of the institution, the department may transfer an adult inmate to a residential adult community correctional facility. (b) A trans…

Authority of department of corrections to contract for services. (a) Subject to legislative appropriation, the department may, by negotiation without competitive bids or by competitive bidding, contract with any community corrections board created under this act, to provide servi…

Duties of department of corrections. (a) The department shall: (i) Establish minimum facility standards for residential adult community correctional facilities operated by any entity receiving funds under this act; (ii) Establish minimum standards for adult community correctional…

Escape. (a) An offender, parolee or an inmate is deemed guilty of escape from official detention and shall be punished as provided by W.S. 6-5-206(a)(i) if, without proper authorization, he: (i) Fails to remain within the extended limits of his confinement or to return within the…

Confinement of violators. If the administrator of an adult community correctional facility or any other appropriate supervising authority has cause to believe that an offender, parolee or inmate placed in an adult community correctional facility has violated any rule or condition…

Record and disbursement of wages; exemption from process; confidentiality of amount. (a) Wages earned by an inmate, parolee or offender while in an adult community corrections program shall be retained and accounted for by the program operator and shall be disbursed for the purpo…

Assignment of parolee to program by state board of parole; placement by department as administrative sanction. (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the state board of parole may, as a condition of parole, require a parolee to participate in a residential or nonresidenti…