Bill Text: MS HB1044 | 2015 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Department of Corrections; authorize to contract with Lee County and Leflore County for regional correctional facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: (Failed) 2015-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB1044 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-HB1044-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Corrections; County Affairs
By: Representatives Turner, Aldridge, Boyd, Holland, Huddleston (15th), Massengill, Steverson, Sullivan, Taylor
House Bill 1044
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-931, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO CONTRACT WITH THE BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS OF LEE COUNTY AND LEFLORE COUNTY TO HOUSE STATE INMATES IN A REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; TO AMEND SECTION 47-57-933, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE DAILY FEE FROM $29.74 TO $31.50 THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS PAYS TO REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE HOUSING OF STATE OFFENDERS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 47-5-931, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-931. (1) The Department of Corrections, in its discretion, may contract with the board of supervisors of one or more counties and/or with a regional facility operated by one or more counties, to provide for housing, care and control of offenders who are in the custody of the State of Mississippi. Any facility owned or leased by a county or counties for this purpose shall be designed, constructed, operated and maintained in accordance with American Correctional Association standards, and shall comply with all constitutional standards of the United States and the State of Mississippi, and with all court orders that may now or hereinafter be applicable to the facility. If the Department of Corrections contracts with more than one (1) county to house state offenders in county correctional facilities, excluding a regional facility, then the first of such facilities shall be constructed in Sharkey County and the second of such facilities shall be constructed in Jefferson County.
(2) The Department of
Corrections shall contract with the board of supervisors of the following
counties to house state inmates in regional facilities: (a) Marion and Walthall
Counties; (b) Carroll and Montgomery Counties; (c) Stone and Pearl River
Counties; (d) Winston and Choctaw Counties; (e) Kemper and Neshoba Counties;
(f) Holmes County and any contiguous county in which there is located an
unapproved jail; and (g) Bolivar County and any contiguous county in which
there is located an unapproved jail. The Department of Corrections may
contract with the board of supervisors of the following counties to house state
inmates in regional facilities: (a) Yazoo County, (b) Chickasaw County, (c)
George and Greene Counties, (d) Washington County, (e) Hinds County, * * * (f) Alcorn County, (g) Lee County, and
(h) Leflore County. The Department of Corrections shall decide the order
of priority of the counties listed in this subsection with which it will
contract for the housing of state inmates. For the purposes of this
subsection, the term "unapproved jail" means any jail that the local
grand jury determines should be condemned or has found to be of substandard
condition or in need of substantial repair or reconstruction.
(3) In addition to the offenders authorized to be housed under subsection (1) of this section, the Department of Corrections may contract with the Kemper and Neshoba regional facility to provide for housing, care and control of not more than seventy-five (75) additional offenders who are in the custody of the State of Mississippi.
SECTION 2. Section 47-5-933, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-933. The Department of
Corrections may contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-931 for a
period of not more than twenty (20) years. The contract may provide that the
Department of Corrections pay a fee of up to * * * Thirty-one Dollars and Fifty Cents ($31.50) per day
for each offender that is housed in the facility. The Department of
Corrections * * * shall
include in the contract, as an inflation factor, a three percent (3%) annual
increase in the contract price if funds are available. The state shall
retain responsibility for medical care for state offenders to the extent that
is required by law.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.
