Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 3, Chapter 29, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 12-29-101 - Custody Classifications and Treatment Programs.
  (a) (1) The Director of the Department of Correction shall formulate and establish a system by which all prisoners delivered to and in the...
• § 12-29-102 - Inmates Denied Participation in Furlough Programs.
  A person who is convicted of any of the following offenses shall be ineligible to participate in any meritorious furlough program conducted by or...
• § 12-29-103 - Discipline.
  (a) The Director of the Department of Correction or the Director of the Department of Community Correction shall prescribe, with the approval of the...
• § 12-29-104 - Contacts With Persons Outside the Institution.
  Under rules prescribed by the Department of Correction, heads of the institutions of the department may authorize: (1) Visits and correspondence, under reasonable conditions,...
• § 12-29-105 - Clergy.
  (a) All clergy of every denomination shall be admitted free to a Department of Correction prison or may visit any inmate confined therein, subject...
• § 12-29-106 - Mail to or From Inmates.
  (a) (1) A person without the consent of the Director of the Department of Correction shall not bring into or carry out of a...
• § 12-29-107 - Inmate Welfare Funds.
  Amounts held as inmate welfare funds or received as inmate welfare funds through contributions, profit from sale of products to inmates, or otherwise, shall...
• § 12-29-108 - Cash in Possession of Inmate -- Confiscation.
  (a) The Board of Corrections is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations concerning the maximum amount of cash that inmates of the Department of...
• § 12-29-109 - Board Action Upon Violations of § 5-54-119.
  If the Board of Corrections has good reason for believing that any violation of § 5-54-119 has occurred, it shall investigate the matter and...
• § 12-29-110 - Selling or Trading Position, Working Condition, or Promotion -- Penalty.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any inmate or employee of the Department of Correction or any other person to sell, barter, or trade,...
• § 12-29-111 - Transport of Inmate Required for Legal Proceeding.
  (a) If an inmate in the care and custody of the Department of Correction or the Department of Community Correction is required to be...
• § 12-29-112 - Discharge or Release.
  (a) At least one hundred twenty (120) days before an inmate's anticipated release date, the Department of Correction, in collaboration with the inmate and...
• § 12-29-113 - Notice of Escape to Law Enforcement Officers -- Penalty.
  (a) (1) Whenever any inmate of the Department of Correction shall escape from its custody, it shall be the duty of the Director of...
• § 12-29-114 - Notice of Escape to Victim or Victim's Next of Kin.
  (a) (1) Whenever an inmate serving a sentence for the commission of a crime escapes from the custody of the Department of Correction, it...
• § 12-29-115 - Combination to Escape -- Authority of Guards.
  (a) The officers and guards of the Department of Correction shall use all lawful and suitable means to defend themselves, secure the persons of...
• § 12-29-116 - Authority of Director in Case of Alarm or Danger.
  The Director of the Department of Correction shall have the authority of a county sheriff over the power of the county in which a...

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