47-5-23 - Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 47-5-23. Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections.
 

The department shall be vested with the exclusive responsibility for management and control of the correctional system, and all properties belonging thereto, subject only to the limitations of this chapter, and shall be responsible for the management of affairs of the correctional system and for the proper care, treatment, feeding, clothing and management of the offenders confined therein. The commissioner shall have final authority to employ and discharge all employees of the correctional system, except as otherwise provided by law. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 7930; Laws,  1964, ch. 378, § 10; Laws, 1974, ch. 539, § 2; Laws, 1976, ch. 440, § 22; reenacted, 1981, ch. 465, § 15; reenacted, 1984, ch. 471, § 15; reenacted, 1986, ch. 413, § 15, eff from and after passage (approved March 28, 1986).