Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 47-5-1205 - Board to provide for construction and equipping of additional housing and support facilities(1) The State Prison Emergency Construction and Management Board shall provide for the construction and shall equip additional housing and necessary support facilities for one thousand two hundred sixteen (1,216) medium security male offenders and for two hundred (200) male offenders sentenced to evidence-based programs for the benefit of inmates at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution. The department may house offenders not sentenced to such programs in the two hundred (200) beds reserved for the program as it deems appropriate.(2) The State Prison Emergency Construction and Management Board shall provide for the construction and shall equip additional housing and support facilities for seven hundred (700) medium security male offenders at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.(3) The State Prison Emergency Construction and Management Board shall use funds from the "Corrections Facilities Emergency Construction Fund."(4) The Department of Finance and Administration shall use its emergency powers to expedite the construction of these facilities. In the planning, design, procurement and construction of these facilities, the board shall make maximum utilization of plans, specifications and processes used in, completed or on-going construction projects for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.Laws, 1994, 1st Ex Sess, ch. 26, § 3; Laws, 2007, ch. 474, § 1, eff. 3/27/2007.Amended by Laws, 2015, ch. 463, HB 906, 5, eff. 7/1/2015.