47-5-1119 - Monitoring of contracts and facilities by commissioner and medical director. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 47-5-1119. Monitoring of contracts and facilities by commissioner and medical director.
 

(1)  The commissioner shall monitor any contracts with prison contractors providing correctional services and shall report at least annually, or as requested, to the Senate Committee on Corrections and the House Penitentiary Committee on the performance of the contractor. 

(2)  The medical director of the department shall be responsible for monitoring all aspects of the facility. The medical director may designate a person to assist in monitoring at the facility, as the medical director determines to be necessary. The medical director shall be provided an on-site work area, shall be on-site on a daily basis, and shall have access to all areas of the facility and to inmates and staff at all times. The contractor shall provide any and all data, reports and other materials that the medical director determines are necessary to carry out monitoring responsibilities under this section. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1994, ch. 450, § 10, eff from and after July 1, 1994; reenacted without change, Laws, 1999, ch. 540, § 10; reenacted without change, Laws, 2001, ch. 480, § 10; reenacted without change, Laws, 2002, ch. 617, § 10; reenacted without change, Laws, 2003, ch. 372, § 10; reenacted without change, Laws, 2004, ch. 471, § 10; reenacted without change, Laws, 2006, ch. 385, § 10, eff from and after July 1, 2006.