Florida Statutes Title XLVII Chapter 951 - County And Municipal Prisoners
- 951.01 - County Prisoners May Be Put To Labor.
The board of county commissioners of each county may employ all persons in the jail of their respective counties under sentence upon conviction for crime...
- 951.03 - County Commissioners To Provide Food, Etc.
Boards of county commissioners, when working county prisoners on the public works of the counties shall provide, or cause to be provided, substantial food, clothes,...
- 951.032 - Financial Responsibility For Medical Expenses.
(1) A county detention facility or municipal detention facility incurring expenses for providing medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation may seek reimbursement for the expenses incurred...
- 951.033 - Income And Assets; Payment Of Subsistence Costs.
(1) The Legislature finds that there is an urgent need to alleviate the increasing financial burdens on local subdivisions of the state caused by the expenses...
- 951.04 - Furnishing Of Transportation To Discharged Prisoners.
When a prisoner is discharged by reasons of having served his or her sentence, or upon receiving a pardon or parole, he or she shall...
- 951.05 - Working County Prisoners On Roads And Bridges Or Other Public Works Of The County; Hiring Out To Another County.
The board of county commissioners of the several counties may require all county prisoners under sentence confined in the jail of their respective counties for...
- 951.06 - Employment Of Correctional Officers; Duties; Salary.
(1) The county commissioners shall designate a chief correctional officer and such correctional officers as they deem necessary.(2) All chief correctional officers of prisoners shall see that...
- 951.061 - Designation Of Sheriff As Chief Correctional Officer; Duties.
(1) Upon adoption of an ordinance by a majority of the county commission, the sheriff may be designated the chief correctional officer of the county correctional...
- 951.062 - Contractual Arrangements For Operation And Maintenance Of County Detention Facilities.
(1) After consultation with the sheriff and upon adoption of an ordinance by vote of a majority plus one, the governing body of the county may...
- 951.0623 - Application Of Ch. 86-183; Agreement Or Contract As Of July 1, 1986.
Notwithstanding any other provision of chapter 86-183, Laws of Florida, each correctional facility and county detention facility operated and maintained by either the sheriff or...
- 951.063 - Privately Operated County Correctional Facilities.
Each private correctional officer employed by a private entity under contract to a county commission must be certified as a correctional officer under s. 943.1395...
- 951.08 - Prisoner Workday.
No prisoner shall be compelled to labor more than 10 hours per day nor be subject to punishment for any refusal to labor beyond such...
- 951.10 - Leasing Prisoners To Work For Private Interests Prohibited.
County prisoners may not be leased to work for any private interests. This section does not prohibit county inmates from working in nonprofit and private...
- 951.11 - Turning Prisoners Over To Board Of Bond Trustees, Etc.
The board of county commissioners in counties where a board of bond trustees, board of public works, or other duly constituted board, has charge of...
- 951.12 - Working Prisoners On Public Roads And Exchange Of Prisoners Between Counties.
All persons confined in the county jail under sentence of a court may be worked on the roads of the county. In case the number...
- 951.13 - Transferring From One County To Another.
(1) When the county commissioners of any county shall have made provision for the expenses of supporting and guarding, while at work on the public roads,...
- 951.14 - Failure Of Person To Discharge His Or Her Duty; Penalty.
Any person appointed by virtue of the laws of the state relative to working county prisoners on the public road, or to whom duties are...
- 951.15 - Credit On Fines And Costs.
Every working prisoner shall be entitled to receive, together with subsistence, a credit at the rate of 30 cents per diem, on account of fines...
- 951.16 - Prisoners Entitled To Receive Credit On Fine Based On Imprisonment.
Every person who may be imprisoned in the county jail for failure to pay a fine and costs, or either, under sentence imposed upon conviction...
- 951.175 - Provision Of Programs For Women.
(1) This section may be cited as the “County Corrections Equality Act.”(2) All regularly employed assistants, officers, and employees whose duties bring them into contact with the...
- 951.176 - Provision Of Education Programs For Youth.
Minors who have not graduated from high school and eligible students with disabilities under the age of 22 who have not graduated with a standard...
- 951.19 - Interference With County Prisoners.
Whoever shall interfere with county prisoners while at work, at their meals, at rest, or while going to and from their quarters or with the...
- 951.21 - Gain-time For Good Conduct For County Prisoners.
(1) Commutation of time for good conduct of county prisoners shall be granted by the board of county commissioners unless, by a majority vote of the...
- 951.22 - County Detention Facilities; Contraband Articles.
(1) It is unlawful, except through regular channels as duly authorized by the sheriff or officer in charge, to introduce into or possess upon the grounds...
- 951.221 - Sexual Misconduct Between Detention Facility Employees And Inmates; Penalties.
(1) Any employee of a county or municipal detention facility or of a private detention facility under contract with a county commission who engages in sexual...
- 951.23 - County And Municipal Detention Facilities; Definitions; Administration; Standards And Requirements.
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “County detention facility” means a county jail, a county stockade, a county work camp, a county residential probation center,...
- 951.231 - County Residential Probation Program.
(1) Any prisoner who has been sentenced under s. 921.18 to serve a sentence in a county residential probation center as described in s. 951.23 shall:(a) Reside...
- 951.24 - Extend The Limits Of Confinement For County Prisoners.
(1) Any county shall be deemed to have a work-release program upon the motion of that county’s board of county commissioners which shall require the concurrence...
- 951.25 - Sale Of Goods And Services Produced By County Prisoners.
(1) Any service or item manufactured, processed, grown, or produced, in whole or in part, by county prisoners in a county operating under a home rule...
- 951.26 - Public Safety Coordinating Councils.
(1) Each board of county commissioners shall establish a county public safety coordinating council for the county or shall join with a consortium of one or...
- 951.27 - Blood Tests Of Inmates.
(1) Each county and each municipal detention facility shall have a written procedure developed, in consultation with the facility medical provider, establishing conditions under which an...
- 951.28 - Transmitting Prisoner Information To Reduce Public Assistance Fraud.
Upon consultation with the Department of Law Enforcement and the Social Security Administration, the county sheriff or chief correctional officer or his or her designee...
- 951.29 - Procedure For Requesting Restoration Of Civil Rights Of County Prisoners Convicted Of Felonies.
(1) With respect to a person who has been convicted of a felony and is serving a sentence in a county detention facility, the administrator of...
Last modified: September 23, 2016