31-121. Duty of sheriff to receive and provide for prisoners; contracts for furnishing food; city or town prisoners; employment; canteens; special services fund; insurance; education programs A. The sheriff shall receive all persons who are committed to jail by competent authority and provide them with necessary food, clothing and bedding, the cost of which shall […]
31-122. Receiving and keeping federal prisoners A. The sheriff may receive and keep in the county jail any prisoner committed thereto by process or order issued under the authority of the United States until the prisoner is discharged according to law as if he had been committed under process issued under the authority of the […]
31-123. Confinement of person committed to jail A prisoner committed to the county jail for trial or for examination, or upon conviction for a public offense, shall be actually confined in the jail until he is legally discharged. If the prisoner is permitted to go at large, except by lawful order or process, or pursuant […]
31-124. Segregation of prisoners; males and females; minors and adults A. Male and female prisoners shall not be kept or placed in the same room. B. A person under the age of eighteen years shall not be confined in the same section of any jail or prison in which adult prisoners are confined.
31-125. Duty of sheriff to deliver judicial papers to prisoner When a paper in a judicial proceeding is directed to a prisoner in the custody of a sheriff and is served upon the sheriff, he shall forthwith deliver it to the prisoner with a notation thereon of the time of service. If the sheriff neglects […]
31-126. Examination of certain prisoners for mental disorder When a person confined in the county jail upon arrest for or conviction of a misdemeanor manifests symptoms of a mental disorder, the sheriff shall notify a licensed physician who shall examine the person. If in the judgment of a licensed physician the person is suffering from […]
31-127. Abuse of prisoner; classification A public officer who with criminal negligence is guilty of inhumanity or oppression toward a prisoner under his care or in his custody is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
31-128. Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification A person not authorized by law who, without permission of the officer in charge of a jail, communicates with a person imprisoned or detained therein, or who takes any letter, writing, literature or reading matter to or from a person imprisoned or detained therein, is guilty of a class […]
31-129. Taking prohibited articles into jail; violation; classification; definitions A. A person not authorized by law who knowingly takes into a jail or the grounds belonging to the jail any marijuana, narcotic drug or dangerous drug, or intoxicating liquor of any kind, or firearms, weapons or explosives of any kind is guilty of a class […]
31-130. Destruction of or injury to public jail; classification A person who intentionally and without lawful authority breaks, pulls down or otherwise destroys or injures a public jail or other place of confinement is guilty of a class 5 felony.
31-131. Operation of inmate industry program; special services fund; application of earnings A. On approval of the county board of supervisors, the sheriff may operate an inmate industry program and for that purpose may employ personnel, purchase equipment and incur other necessary expenses for the operation and management of the program, making payment therefor through […]
31-132. Duty to deliver medical records Prior to or at the same time a prisoner is transferred from a county jail facility to a state department of corrections facility by a county, a copy of the prisoner’s county jail medical record file, including the prisoner’s mental health file, or a standardized medical record summary shall […]
31-221. Master record file; information from other agencies; confidentiality of file; access; definition A. The state department of corrections shall maintain a master record file on each person who is committed to the department that contains the following: 1. All information from the committing court. 2. The reports of the reception-diagnostic centers. 3. Evaluation and […]
31-222. Research and evaluation programs A. The department shall establish programs of research, statistics and planning, including the study of its own performance concerning the treatment of adult offenders. B. The department may conduct and supervise research into the causes of detention and treatment of crime and disseminate such information to the public and governmental […]
31-223. Use of force by correctional officers A correctional officer as defined in section 41-1661 may use all reasonable and necessary means including deadly force to prevent the attempt of a prisoner sentenced to the custody of the state department of corrections to: 1. Escape from custody or from a correctional facility. 2. Take another […]
31-224. Duty to deliver medical records Prior to or at the same time a prisoner is transferred from a state department of corrections facility by the department to a county jail facility, a copy of the prisoner’s state department of corrections medical record file, including the prisoner’s mental health file, or a standardized medical record […]
31-225. Attendance of prisoner in court When it is necessary that a person imprisoned by the department be brought before any court, or that a person imprisoned in a county jail be brought before a court in another county, an order may be made for that purpose by the court and executed by the sheriff […]
31-226. Mentally disordered prisoner; procedure for voluntary or involuntary hospitalization; notice; hearing; transfer; reports; return to incarceration or release; costs; definition A. If a prisoner confined in any facility operated by the state department of corrections displays symptoms of mental disorder to such a degree that transfer to the state hospital or a licensed behavioral […]
31-226.01. Emergency transfer procedures A. If the written report made pursuant to section 31-226, subsection A indicates reasonable cause to believe that, as a result of mental disorder, the prisoner is a danger to self or others and that without immediate treatment in a mental health inpatient treatment facility or the state hospital the prisoner […]
31-227. Expenses of prosecution; reimbursement of counties If a person is arrested within this state for any crime committed in or adjacent and related to a correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the state department of corrections or committed while escaped from a correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the department or from the custody […]
