47-5-183 - Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 47-5-183. Department of Corrections may create a  postconviction DNA database.
 

The Mississippi Department of Corrections is authorized, subject to the availability of funds, to secure a biological sample for purposes of DNA identification analysis from every individual convicted of a felony or in its custody before release from or transfer to a state correctional facility or county jail or other detention facility. 
 

Sources: Laws, 2003, ch. 459, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2003.