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• Repealed. 1972, Act 179, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Record of Major Misconduct Charges as Part of Parole Eligibility Report; Reduction From Sentence; Good Time, Disciplinary Credits, or Special Disciplinary Credits; Forfeiture; Disciplinary Credit Committee; Rules; Good Time Committee; Powers of Warden and Parole Board; Prisoner Subject to Disciplinary Time; Reduction of Credits by Court Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.33
  (1) A record of all major misconduct charges for which a prisoner has been found guilty shall be maintained and given to the parole...
• Disciplinary Time; Receipt for Each Major Misconduct; Accumulation; Consideration for Concurrent or Consecutive Sentences; Reduction; "prisoner Subject to Disciplinary Time" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.34
  (1) A prisoner subject to disciplinary time shall receive disciplinary time for each major misconduct for which he or she is found guilty as...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.35
  The department shall promulgate rules prescribing the amount of disciplinary time to be submitted to the parole board for the parole board's consideration for...
• Repealed. 1972, Act 179, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Enforcement of Discipline; Attempted Escapes; "correctional Facility" and "Corrections Officer" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.41
  (1) If a prisoner assaults or batters a corrections officer or any other person, damages or attempts to damage any part of a correctional...
• Prisoner in Correctional Facility Having Security Classification of I, Ii, Iii, Iv, V, or Vi; Personal Property; Disposal; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.42
  (1) A prisoner in a correctional facility assigned to a housing unit having a security classification of IV, V, or VI shall not have...
• Receipt or Possession of Certain Material; Prohibition; List; Notice; Appeal; Limits on Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.43
  (1) The department may prohibit a prisoner from receiving or possessing any material that the department determines under this section is detrimental to the...
• Uniform; Color - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.44
  A prisoner in a correctional facility assigned to a housing unit having a security classification of I to VI shall wear a uniform provided...
• Repealed. 1972, Act 179, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Conveyance of Convict to Prison; Duty of Sheriff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.48
  It shall be the duty of the sheriff of every county in which any criminal is sentenced to confinement in a prison, to cause...
• Conveyance of Convict to Prison; Fees and Expenses; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.49
  The fees and actual expenses of sheriffs in conveying convicts to a prison shall be made out in a bill containing the fees or...
• Conveyance of Convict to Prison; Certified Copy of Sentence; Delivery to Warden, Use as Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.50
  When any convict shall be delivered to the warden of either prison, the officer having such convict in his charge shall deliver to such...
• Repealed. 1972, Act 179, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Escaped Convicts; Measures for Apprehension; Reward; Sentence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.61
  Whenever any convict shall escape from a prison, the warden shall take all proper measures for the apprehension of the convict, and for that...
• Repealed. 1972, Act 179, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act (800.71 - 800.79) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Michigan Reformatory (800.91 - 800.91) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Convicts; Work on Public Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.101
  Upon the written request of a majority of the board of commissioners, the department of corrections may detail such able bodied convicts as in...
• Convicts; Employment on State Highways; Control, Compensation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.101a
  Any convicts mentioned in section 1 of this act may be employed by the state highway department in this state in construction work upon...
• Convicts; Class of Labor Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.102
  Said convicts when employed under the provisions of section 1 of this act shall not be used for the purpose of building any bridge...
• Repealed. 1986, Act 322, Eff. Apr. 1, 1987. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Restriction on Commitment to State House of Correction and Reformatory At Ionia (800.151 - 800.151) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Prosecuting Attorney of Ionia County (800.167 - 800.167) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Bertillon System (800.201 - 800.203) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Bureau of Criminal Records (800.231 - 800.234) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Alcoholic Liquor, Prescription Drug, Poison, or Controlled Substance; Prohibitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.281
  (1) Except as provided in section 2, a person shall not sell, give, or furnish, either directly or indirectly, any alcoholic liquor, prescription drug,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.281a
  As used in this act: (a) "Alcoholic liquor" means any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, liquid, or compound whether or not medicated, containing...
• Persons Not in Violation of Mcl 800.281; Limitation on Wine for Use of Clergy; Applicability of Mcl 800.281(3) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.282
  (1) A person is not in violation of section 1 if all of the following occur: (a) A licensed physician certifies in writing that...
• Weapons; Prohibitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.283
  (1) Unless authorized by the chief administrator of the correctional facility, a weapon or other implement which may be used to injure a prisoner...
• Cellular Telephone or Wireless Communication Device to Prisoner Prohibited; Confiscation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.283a
  (1) A person shall not sell, give, or furnish, or aid in the selling, giving, or furnishing of, a cellular telephone or other wireless...
• Search of Persons Coming to Correctional Facility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.284
  The chief administrator of a correctional facility may search, or have searched, any person coming to the correctional facility as a visitor, or in...
• Violation as Felony; Penalty; Prosecution for Delivery or Possession of Controlled Substance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.285
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person violating this act is guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine of not more...
• Admission of Clergymen - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.291
  That it shall be the duty of the keeper, or other persons having the control of any prison, jail, alms-house, house of correction, hospital...
• Duty of Keeper - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.292
  It shall be the duty of such keeper or other person in control, during the time fixed, in pursuance of the first section of...
• Repealed - the Prison Industries Act (800.301 - 800.319) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Correctional Industries Act; Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.321
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "correctional industries act".
• "correctional Industries Products" and "correctional Institution" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.322
  As used in this act: (a) "Correctional industries products" means all services provided, goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured or produced, wholly or in part,...
• Commission of Corrections; Authority and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.323
  The authority and duties contained in this act are vested in the commission of corrections. History: 1968, Act 15, Imd. Eff. Apr. 5, 1968...
• Commission of Corrections; Powers; Participation in Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.324
  (1) The department of corrections may do any of the following: (a) Construct, use, equip, and maintain buildings, machinery, boilers, and equipment that may...
• Correctional Industries Revolving Fund; Crediting Money Collected From Inmate Labor; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.325
  Except as provided in section 7a, all money collected from the sale or disposition of goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured by inmate labor, or...
• Sale, Exchange, or Purchase of Correctional Industries Products; Use of Agricultural Product Produced on Correctional Farm; Use of Inmate Labor; Assignment of Prison Labor to Private Contractor; Determination by Department; Participation by Member of Legislature; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.326
  (1) Correctional industries products may be sold, exchanged, or purchased by any of the following: (a) An institution of this or any other state...
• Employment of Inmates; Types of Employment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.327
  The department of corrections shall provide as fully as practicable for the employment of inmates in tasks consistent with the penal and rehabilitative purposes...
• Assignment of Inmates to Work in Private Manufacturing or Service Enterprise - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.327a
  (1) Inmates may be assigned to work in a private manufacturing or service enterprise that meets all of the following requirements: (a) The enterprise...
• Correctional Industries Products; Duties of Director of Department of Management and Budget - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.328
  The director of the department of management and budget shall prescribe specifications, standards, quality tests, methods, and conditions of packaging and conditions and times...
• Purchase and Sale of Similar Finished Goods, Materials, or Equipment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.329
  Correctional industries, with the approval of the department of management and budget, may purchase finished goods, materials, or equipment of the same type as...
• Correctional Institution Maintained by Political Subdivision; Sale or Disposal of Products; Mcl 800.328 and 800.329 Inapplicable - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.330
  A correctional institution now maintained by a political subdivision of this state may sell or otherwise dispose of its correctional institution products to the...
• Intent of Act; Correctional Industries as Total Self - Supporting System; Methods of Purchasing and Accounting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.331
  (1) It is the intent of this act to do all of the following: (a) Provide adequate, regular, diversified, and suitable employment for inmates...
• Schedule of Payments or Allowances to Inmates or Dependents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.332
  The department of corrections may adopt a schedule of payments or allowances to inmates or to their dependents from the funds as may be...
• Violation of Act by Public Officer; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.333
  Wilful violations of any of the provisions of this act by an officer of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, or by...
• Violation of Act; Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.334
  Any person, firm or corporation who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• Repealed. 1980, Act 245, Eff. Oct. 1, 1980. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of the Michigan State Industries Advisory Council to the Michigan State Industries Advisory Board by a Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.341
  800.341 Transfer of powers and duties of the Michigan state industries advisory council to the Michigan state industries advisory board by a type III...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Michigan State Industries Advisory Board to Director of Michigan Department of Corrections by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.351
  800.351 Transfer of powers and duties of Michigan state industries advisory board to director of Michigan department of corrections by Type III transfer. WHEREAS,...
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.401
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "the state correctional facility reimbursement act." History: 1935, Act 253, Imd. Eff. June 8,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.401a
  As used in this act: (a) "Assets" means property, tangible or intangible, real or personal, belonging to or due a prisoner or former prisoner...
• Assets of Prisoners; Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.401b
  (1) The department shall develop a form which shall be used by the department to obtain information from all prisoners regarding assets of the...
• Forwarding Information to Attorney General - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.402
  The director shall forward to the attorney general a report on each prisoner containing a completed form under section 1b together with all other...
• Investigation by Attorney General; Securing Reimbursement for Cost of Care; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.403
  (1) The attorney general shall investigate or cause to be investigated all reports furnished under section 2. (2) If the attorney general upon completing...
• Cooperation of Prisoner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.403a
  (1) A prisoner shall fully cooperate with the state by providing complete financial information for purposes under this act. (2) The failure of a...
• Exclusive Jurisdiction of Circuit Court; Complaint; Order to Show Cause; Hearing; Order Requiring Reimbursement; Amount; Obligation of Defendant to Support Dependents; Neglect or Refusal to Comply With Order; Contempt; Liability of Assets; Time Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.404
  (1) The circuit court shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all proceedings under this act. The attorney general may file a complaint in the circuit...
• Remedy, Interim Order, or Enforcement Procedure; Receiver; Execution Against Homestead Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.404a
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), in seeking to secure reimbursement under this act, the attorney general may use any remedy, interim order,...
• Enforcement of Act; Investigation or Assistance of Prosecuting Attorney; Prisoners in Work Camps - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.404b
  (1) The attorney general of this state shall enforce the provisions of this act except that the attorney general may request the prosecuting attorney...
• Information and Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.405
  The sentencing judge, the sheriff of the county, the chief administrator of the state correctional facility, and the department of treasury shall furnish to...
• Disposition of Reimbursements; Determination of Amount Due; Statements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.406
  (1) The costs of any investigations under this act shall be paid from the reimbursements secured under this act, and the balance of the...
• Repealed. 1984, Act 282, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 1984. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• "state Correctional Facility" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.451
  As used in this act, "state correctional facility" means a facility or institution which houses an inmate population under the jurisdiction of the department...
• Reimbursement for Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.452
  (1) The state shall reimburse each county in which a state correctional facility is located for the reasonable and actual costs incurred by the...
• Implementing Additional Jurisdictional Duties; Reimbursement of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.453
  (1) The state shall reimburse each county for the reasonable and actual costs incurred by that county for implementing additional jurisdictional duties in the...
• Prisoners Escaping, Not Returning, or Violating Parole; Apprehension; Reimbursing Costs of Holding in County Jail; Exception; Monthly Submission of Itemized Costs; Determination of Reasonableness; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.454
  (1) When a state committed prisoner who was incarcerated in a state correctional facility has escaped, not returned pursuant to agreement, or violated the...
• Implementing Jurisdictional Duties in Probate Court; Reimbursement of Costs; Quarterly Submission of Itemized Costs; Determination of Reasonableness; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.455
  (1) The state shall reimburse each county in which a state correctional facility is located for the reasonable and actual costs of the following...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of the County Escaped Prisoner Prosecution Program From the Department of Management and Budget to the Department of Corrections by a Type II Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 800.461
  800.461 Transfer of powers and duties of the county escaped prisoner prosecution program from the department of management and budget to the department of...

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