791.261 Bureau of prisons; establishment, direction and supervision. Sec. 61. There is hereby established within the department, a bureau of prisons. This bureau shall be under the direction and supervision of the assistant director in charge of the bureau of penal institutions. History: 1953, Act 232, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953 Popular Name: Department of Corrections […]
791.262 Definitions; administration of state correctional facilities; supervision and inspection of jails and lockups; rules and standards; variance; advice and services; enforcement of orders; residence of sheriff as part of county jail; visitation and inspection by member of commission or designee; records; forms; violation as misdemeanor. Sec. 62. (1) As used in this section: (a) […]
791.262a Local lockup advisory board; creation; appointment, term, and expenses of members; first meeting; election of chairperson; quorum; model policy; review. Sec. 62a. (1) A local lockup advisory board is created within the bureau of prisons. The board shall consist of 7 members appointed for a period of 4 years. The director of each of […]
791.262b Housing inmates in county jail cell designed and constructed for single occupancy; conditions; classification system; doors; visual supervision; indemnification for expense or damages. Sec. 62b. (1) The rules and standards promulgated under section 62(3) do not prohibit the housing of 2 inmates in a county jail cell that is designed and constructed for single […]
791.262c Housing inmates in county jail cell; conditions; classification system; doors; visual supervision. Sec. 62c. (1) The rules and standards promulgated under section 62(3) shall not prohibit the housing of 2 or more inmates in a county jail cell which is designed and constructed for housing 2 or more inmates, and which meets all of […]
791.262d Prisoners who are 18 to 22 years of age; development of rehabilitation plans; programming; report; “correctional facility” defined. Sec. 62d. (1) The department shall develop rehabilitation plans for prisoners in the custody of the department who are approximately 18 to 22 years of age that specifically take the prisoner’s age into consideration. (2) The […]
791.263 Wardens; appointment; personnel; “correctional facility” defined. Sec. 63. (1) The wardens of the correctional facilities of this state shall be appointed by the director of corrections and shall be within the state civil service. The assistant director in charge of the bureau of correctional facilities shall, subject to the approval of the director, appoint […]
791.263a Compensation of correctional or youth correctional facility employees injured by inmate assault or injured during riot; exception; “correctional facility” defined. Sec. 63a. (1) A person employed by the department of corrections in a correctional facility who is injured as a result of an assault by a prisoner housed in the correctional facility or injured […]
791.264 Classification of prisoners; classification committee; information; filing; investigation; computation of sentence; recomputation based on amended judgment. Sec. 64. (1) The assistant director in charge of the bureau of correctional facilities shall classify the prisoners in correctional facilities. The assistant director shall appoint a classification committee from the staff of each correctional facility, which committee […]
791.265 Transfer or re-transfer of prisoner; confinement in secure correctional facility; “offender” defined; transfer of offenders to country of citizenship; notification to judge and prosecutor; objections; “secure correctional facility” defined. Sec. 65. (1) Under rules promulgated by the director of the department, the assistant director in charge of the bureau of correctional facilities, except as […]
791.265a Extending limits of confinement; rules; escape from custody; eligibility for extensions of limits of confinement; placement in community residential home; definitions. Sec. 65a. (1) Under prescribed conditions, the director may extend the limits of confinement of a prisoner when there is reasonable assurance, after consideration of all facts and circumstances, that the prisoner will […]
791.265b Definitions; transfer of mentally or physically disabled prisoner to medical institution; duration; determination of mental or physical disability; financial responsibility of department; regulations. Sec. 65b. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Medical institution” means that term as defined in section 106(2) of Act No. 280 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, […]
791.265c Work camp; construction, maintenance, and operation; purpose; assignment of prisoners; displacement of employed persons or workers on strike or locked out; agreement of bargaining unit; citizens advisory committee; escape; reimbursement of department; collecting and dispersing wages; amount of wages; rules. Sec. 65c. (1) As used in this section, “work camp” means a correctional facility […]
791.265d Occurrences requiring entry in law enforcement information network; occurrences requiring certain information to be made available on line; time limitation; scope of entry; “state correctional facility” defined. Sec. 65d. (1) If 1 or more of the following occur, the department shall make an entry in the law enforcement information network: (a) A prisoner escapes […]
791.265e Transfer of prisoner to community placement facility; notice. Sec. 65e. When a prisoner is transferred into a community placement facility of any kind, including a community corrections center, halfway house, or resident home, the department shall send notice of the transfer from the corrections management information system via the law enforcement information network to […]
791.265f Housing prisoners; prohibitions. Sec. 65f. (1) Beginning September 30, 1990, a prisoner who is serving a sentence for conviction of an assaultive crime shall not be placed in a privately owned, noncommercial residential dwelling used for housing prisoners. (2) Beginning on the effective date of this section, for the purpose of housing prisoners, the […]
791.265g Definitions. Sec. 65g. As used in this section and sections 65h and 65i: (a) “Community corrections center” means that term as defined in section 65a. (b) “Community residential home” means that term as defined in section 65a. (c) “Community status criteria” means the criteria for determining which prisoners are eligible to be placed in […]
791.265h Placement in community corrections center or community residential home; community status criteria; location of center; prisoner population; curfew; random checks. Sec. 65h. (1) A prisoner who does not meet the community status criteria shall not be placed in a community corrections center or community residential home. The community status criteria include all of the […]
791.265i Citizens’ council. Sec. 65i. (1) The legislative body of a city, village, or township in which a community corrections center is located may form a 5-member citizens’ council by sending written notice of its intention to form a citizens’ council to the board of commissioners of the county in which the city, village, or […]
791.266 Commitment by courts; purpose of classification. Sec. 66. For the purpose of classification, all convicted prisoners shall be committed by courts of criminal jurisdiction of the state, to the commission, at a place to be designated by the commission. History: 1953, Act 232, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953 Popular Name: Department of Corrections Act
