217.010. Definitions. - Missouri Statutes

Definitions.

217.010. As used in this chapter and chapter 558, RSMo, unless thecontext clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall mean:

(1) "Administrative segregation unit", a cell for the segregation ofoffenders from the general population of a facility for relativelyextensive periods of time;

(2) "Board", the board of probation and parole;

(3) "Chief administrative officer", the institutional head of anycorrectional facility or his designee;

(4) "Correctional center", any premises or institution whereincarceration, evaluation, care, treatment, or rehabilitation is providedto persons who are under the department's authority;

(5) "Department", the department of corrections of the state ofMissouri;

(6) "Director", the director of the department of corrections or hisdesignee;

(7) "Disciplinary segregation", a cell for the segregation ofoffenders from the general population of a correctional center because theoffender has been found to have committed a violation of a division orfacility rule and other available means are inadequate to regulate theoffender's behavior;

(8) "Division", a statutorily created agency within the department oran agency created by the departmental organizational plan;

(9) "Division director", the director of a division of the departmentor his designee;

(10) "Local volunteer community board", a board of qualified localcommunity volunteers selected by the court for the purpose of working inpartnership with the court and the department of corrections in areparative probation program;

(11) "Nonviolent offender", any offender who is convicted of a crimeother than murder in the first or second degree, involuntary manslaughter,kidnapping, forcible rape, forcible sodomy, robbery in the first degree orassault in the first degree;

(12) "Offender", a person under supervision or an inmate in thecustody of the department;

(13) "Probation", a procedure under which a defendant found guilty ofa crime upon verdict or plea is released by the court without imprisonment,subject to conditions imposed by the court and subject to the supervisionof the board;

(14) "Volunteer", any person who, of his own free will, performs anyassigned duties for the department or its divisions with no monetary ormaterial compensation.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 2, A.L. 1984 S.B. 611, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1994 S.B. 763, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424, A.L. 1997 H.B. 823 merged with S.B. 430)

Effective 7-14-97 (H.B. 823) 8-28-97 (S.B. 430)