47-5-933 - Contracts for incarceration of state offenders in county facilities; medical care. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 47-5-933. Contracts for incarceration of state offenders in county facilities; medical care.
 

The Department of Corrections may contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-931 for a period of not more than twenty (20) years. The contract may provide that the Department of Corrections pay a fee of up to Twenty-nine Dollars and Seventy-four Cents ($29.74) per day for each offender that is housed in the facility. The Department of Corrections may include in the contract, as an inflation factor, a three percent (3%) annual increase in the contract price. The state shall retain responsibility for medical care for state offenders to the extent that is required by law. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1995, ch. 585, § 2; Laws, 2007, ch. 539, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2007.