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1997 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 944
STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
    
    STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER 944
                STATE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM
            
                        944.01
                        
                    Short title. 
                    
                        944.012
                        
                    Legislative intent. 
                    
                        944.02
                        
                    Definitions. 
                    
                        944.023
                        
                    Comprehensive correctional master plan. 
                    
                        944.0231
                        
                    Reduction of capacity. 
                    
                        944.024
                        
                    Adult intake and evaluation. 
                    
                        944.026
                        
                    Community-based facilities and programs. 
                    
                        944.033
                        
                    Community correctional centers; existence; location; purpose; restriction. 
                    
                        944.053
                        
                    Forestry Work Camps; establishment; purpose; restrictions on inmate placement. 
                    
                        944.0611
                        
                    Department employees; personal vehicle damage claims. 
                    
                        944.08
                        
                    Commitment to custody of department; venue of institutions. 
                    
                        944.09
                        
                    Rules of the department; offenders, probationers, and parolees. 
                    
                        944.091
                        
                    United States prisoners, board authorized. 
                    
                        944.095
                        
                    Siting of additional correctional facilities; procedure. 
                    
                        944.096
                        
                    Budget requests for residential facility construction; estimates; appropriations; population in excess of capacity. 
                    
                        944.10
                        
                    Department of Corrections to provide buildings; sale and purchase of land; contracts to provide services and inmate labor. 
                    
                        944.105
                        
                    Contractual arrangements with private entities for operation and maintenance of correctional facilities and supervision of inmates. 
                    
                        944.1053
                        
                    Application of ch. 86-183; agreement or contract as of July 1, 1986. 
                    
                        944.11
                        
                    Department to regulate admission of books. 
                    
                        944.14
                        
                    Supervision of correctional institutions; enforcement of orders and regulations. 
                    
                        944.151
                        
                    Security of correctional institutions; legislative intent; periodic physical inspection of facilities; security audits; reports of security audits; procedures in the event of escapes; annual budget request. 
                    
                        944.17
                        
                    Commitments and classification; transfers. 
                    
                        944.1905
                        
                    Initial inmate classification; inmate reclassification. 
                    
                        944.23
                        
                    Persons authorized to visit state prisons. 
                    
                        944.24
                        
                    Administration of correctional institutions for women. 
                    
                        944.275
                        
                    Gain-time. 
                    
                        944.278
                        
                    Cancellation of administrative gain-time and provisional credits. 
                    
                        944.279
                        
                    Disciplinary procedures applicable to prisoner for filing frivolous or malicious actions or bringing false information before court. 
                    
                        944.28
                        
                    Forfeiture of gain-time and the right to earn gain-time in the future. 
                    
                        944.281
                        
                    Ineligibility to earn gain-time due to disciplinary action. 
                    
                        944.282
                        
                    Rules governing inmate use of weight training equipment. 
                    
                        944.291
                        
                    Prisoner released by reason of gain-time allowances or attainment of provisional release date. 
                    
                        944.292
                        
                    Suspension of civil rights. 
                    
                        944.293
                        
                    Initiation of restoration of civil rights. 
                    
                        944.31
                        
                    Inspector general; inspectors; power and duties. 
                    
                        944.32
                        
                    Reports of prison inspectors; recordation; inspection. 
                    
                        944.33
                        
                    Failure of inspector to make report; false report; penalty. 
                    
                        944.331
                        
                    Inmate grievance procedure. 
                    
                        944.35
                        
                    Authorized use of force; malicious battery and sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties. 
                    
                        944.36
                        
                    Permitting inmates to escape. 
                    
                        944.37
                        
                    Acceptance of unauthorized compensation; penalty. 
                    
                        944.38
                        
                    Acceptance of remuneration from contractor; dealing or barter with prisoners; interest in contract; penalty. 
                    
                        944.39
                        
                    Interference with prisoners; penalty. 
                    
                        944.40
                        
                    Escapes; penalty. 
                    
                        944.401
                        
                    Escapes from secure detention or residential commitment facility. 
                    
                        944.402
                        
                    Reward for capture of escapee from correctional institution. 
                    
                        944.405
                        
                    Warrant for retaking offender who has escaped from custody or absconded from rehabilitative community reentry program, or who is ineligible for release. 
                    
                        944.44
                        
                    Holding persons as hostages; penalty. 
                    
                        944.45
                        
                    Mutiny, riot, strike; penalty. 
                    
                        944.46
                        
                    Harboring, concealing, aiding escaped prisoners; penalty. 
                    
                        944.47
                        
                    Introduction, removal, or possession of certain articles unlawful; penalty. 
                    
                        944.471
                        
                    Short title. 
                    
                        944.472
                        
                    Drug-free corrections; legislative findings and purposes. 
                    
                        944.473
                        
                    Inmate substance abuse testing program. 
                    
                        944.474
                        
                    Legislative intent; employee wellness program; drug and alcohol testing. 
                    
                        944.48
                        
                    Service of sentence. 
                    
                        944.485
                        
                    Subsistence fees with respect to certain prisoners; time of adoption; requirements. 
                    
                        944.512
                        
                    State lien on proceeds from literary or other type of account of crime for which convicted. 
                    
                        944.516
                        
                    Money or other property received for personal use or benefit of inmate; deposit; disposition of unclaimed trust funds. 
                    
                        944.52
                        
                    Legal adviser. 
                    
                        944.596
                        
                    Transfer of convicted foreign citizens or nationals under treaty. 
                    
                        944.597
                        
                    Transportation and return of prisoners by private transport company. 
                    
                        944.602
                        
                    Notification of Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services before release of mentally retarded inmates. 
                    
                        944.605
                        
                    Inmate release; notice by Department of Corrections, Control Release Authority, or Parole Commission. 
                    
                        944.606
                        
                    Sexual offenders; notification upon release. 
                    
                        944.607
                        
                    Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of information on sex offenders. 
                    
                        944.611
                        
                    Legislative intent. 
                    
                        944.612
                        
                    Definitions for s. 944.613. 
                    
                        944.613
                        
                    Methods of transportation. 
                    
                        944.701
                        
                    Short title. 
                    
                        944.702
                        
                    Legislative intent. 
                    
                        944.703
                        
                    Eligible inmates. 
                    
                        944.704
                        
                    Staff who provide transition assistance; duties. 
                    
                        944.705
                        
                    Release orientation program. 
                    
                        944.706
                        
                    Basic release assistance. 
                    
                        944.707
                        
                    Postrelease special services; job placement services. 
                    
                        944.708
                        
                    Rules. 
                    
                        944.710
                        
                    Definitions. 
                    
                        944.711
                        
                    Requests for proposals. 
                    
                        944.712
                        
                    Bidder and private vendor qualifications. 
                    
                        944.713
                        
                    Insurance against liability. 
                    
                        944.714
                        
                    Quality assurance and standards of operation. 
                    
                        944.715
                        
                    Delegation of authority. 
                    
                        944.716
                        
                    Contract termination and control of a correctional facility by the department. 
                    
                        944.717
                        
                    Conflicts of interest. 
                    
                        944.718
                        
                    Withdrawal of request for proposals. 
                    
                        944.719
                        
                    Adoption of rules, monitoring, and reporting. 
                    
                        944.801
                        
                    Education for state prisoners. 
                    
                        944.802
                        
                    Direct-support organization; definition; use of property; board of directors; audit. 
                    
                        944.803
                        
            Faith-based programs for inmates.