Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 507 - State Jail Division

SUBCHAPTER A STATE JAIL FELONY FACILITIES

• Texas Section 507.001 - Authority To Operate Or Contract For State Jail Felony Facilities
  (a) The state jail division may operate, maintain, and manage state jail felony facilities to confine inmates described by Section 507.002, and the department may...
• Texas Section 507.002 - Eligible Defendants
  The state jail division may confine in a state jail felony facility authorized by this subchapter defendants required by a judge to serve a term...
• Texas Section 507.003 - Regions
  The board shall designate not fewer than nine regions in the state for the purpose of providing regional state jail felony facilities. The board shall...
• Texas Section 507.004 - Allocation Policies
  The board shall adopt and enforce: (1) a regional allocation policy to allocate the number of facilities and beds to each region established under Section...

SUBCHAPTER B MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 507.006 - Use Of Facility For Other Inmates
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the state jail division, with the approval of the board, may designate one or more state jail...
• Texas Section 507.022 - Employees' Salaries, Room And Board, And Medical Care
  (a) Salaries of employees of the state jail division and the provision of board, lodging, uniforms, and other provisions to employees are as provided by...
• Texas Section 507.023 - Aids And Hiv Education; Testing
  (a) The state jail division shall establish and provide education programs to educate state jail division employees and defendants in state jail felony facilities about...
• Texas Section 507.024 - Transportation Of Defendants
  The board shall adopt rules to provide for the safe transfer of defendants from counties to state jail felony facilities. A sheriff may transport defendants...
• Texas Section 507.025 - Medical Care
  The state jail division, with the approval of the board, may contract with the institutional division, a private vendor, or any public health care provider...
• Texas Section 507.026 - Change In Designation Of Facility
  The board may designate any facility under its control as a state jail felony facility and confine state jail felons in that facility. Added by...
• Texas Section 507.027 - Inspections
  The board shall adopt rules relating to inspections by the department of state jail felony facility construction projects. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 507.028 - Screening For And Education Concerning Fetal Alcohol Exposure During Pregnancy
  (a) The department shall establish and use a screening program in state jail felony facilities that is substantially similar to the program established and used...
• Texas Section 507.029 - Use Of Inmate Labor
  The department may use the labor of inmates of the institutional division in any work or community service program or project performed by the state...
• Texas Section 507.030 - Visitation
  (a) In this section: (1) "Guardian" has the meaning assigned by Section 1002.012, Estates Code. (2) "Letters of guardianship" means a certificate issued under Section...
• Texas Section 507.031 - Furlough Program
  (a) The director of a state jail felony facility may grant a furlough to a defendant so that the defendant may: (1) obtain a medical...
• Texas Section 507.032 - Identification Of Defendants Subject To Arrest Warrant
  Before a defendant is released from confinement in a state jail felony facility, the department shall conduct a criminal history record check to determine whether...
• Texas Section 507.033 - Rehabilitation Programs
  (a) The state jail division may allow a defendant who is capable of serving as a tutor to tutor functionally illiterate defendants and shall actively...

Last modified: September 28, 2016