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Official text current through Missouri Revisor of Statutes chapter table of contents, read 2026-10-21. Full chapter. Headings from the chapter table of contents with full headnotes (lhn=y); the effective-date tags the revisor prints after each heading are dropped. Repealed sections are not shown in that table of contents. Where the table lists a current version and a future version of a section (217.362, 217.690, 217.760, future versions effective 1/1/2028), the heading of the version now in effect is used. RSMo ch. 217, official text

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- DEPARTMENT, ORGANIZATION, POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• 217.010 Definitions.
• 217.015 Divisions created — sections authorized — purpose of department — women offender program established, purpose — advisory committee established, membership, purpose.
• 217.020 Department's powers and duties.
• 217.021 Community behavioral health program, purpose — department duties.
• 217.022 Prison impact statements, required, when.
• 217.025 Director of department, appointment, qualifications, bond, duties.
• 217.030 Directors of divisions, appointment — appointment of general personnel.
• 217.035 Director's powers and duties — deputy director, appointment, compensation, powers in absence or incapacity of director.
• 217.040 Rulemaking authority.
• 217.043 United States government, contract powers of department.
• 217.045 Federal funds, authority to receive — applications for funds, procedure.
• 217.050 Department to sue in name of director — interest authorized.
• 217.055 Volunteer program requirements — coverage as unpaid employees by legal expense fund and workers' compensation — use of state vehicles — expenses.
• 217.070 State auditor to have access to all records, confidentiality.
• 217.075 Offender records, public records, exceptions — inspection of, when — medical records, available, when — copies admissible as evidence — violations, penalty.
• 217.080 Department and division to maintain central office in Jefferson City.
• 217.090 Lease of buildings on grounds of correctional centers, when — compatibility with services of department required — procedure — bids required — cost — terms of lease — how executed.
• 217.092 Leased prison space, deposit of payments.
• 217.095 Condemnation powers, when, procedure.
• 217.100 Director may enter into agreement for services to department by other state departments or agencies.
• 217.110 Workers' compensation to cover all employees of the department.
• 217.115 Officers and employees, restrictions on business connections — conversion of department property prohibited, exception — violations, grounds for dismissal.
• 217.120 Bribery or receipt of gifts from prisoners by officers or employees of department, penalty — duty to report, failure, effect — director to investigate and report, when.
• 217.125 Offenders, labor restrictions.
• 217.128 Employee held hostage eligible for paid leave of absence.
• 217.130 Living quarters furnished to employees, fees.
• 217.135 Food furnished in correctional center, employees to purchase, exception.
• 217.137 Prisoner transfers by United States treaty with foreign governments — governor's powers — director's duties.
• 217.138 Construction of correctional centers by private entities for state and political subdivisions — housing of state's offenders in city or county jails, costs.
• 217.139 Sexual offenders of children, pilot treatment program — costs, how paid — department's duties — annual report.
• 217.141 Electrified security fence systems authorized.
• 217.147 Sentencing and corrections oversight commission, members, terms, duties, report, expiration date.
• 217.151 Restraints, use of on pregnant offenders — definitions — extraordinary circumstances — requirements.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR — DIVISION DIRECTORS AND CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS, POWERS AND DUTIES

• 217.160 Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel — qualifications — to be full-time employee.
• 217.165 Chief administrative officers of each correctional center, appointment.
• 217.170 Chief administrative officers, duties.
• 217.175 Rules and regulations, division director's authority to promulgate.
• 217.180 Annual report of division, contents.
• 217.185 Reports by chief administrative officers, monthly, to division director, contents.
• 217.195 Canteen to be established — inmate canteen fund established, purpose, moneys, how spent.
• 217.197 Offender personal property, allowed when — unauthorized property, disposition of.
• 217.199 Feminine hygiene products, available at no cost to female offenders.
• 217.210 Capacity of correctional centers, how determined — emergency assignment.
• 217.220 Death sentence commutation, admittance to correctional center.
• 217.225 Federal prisoners, admittance — escapees, how punished — neglect of federal prisoners, liability.
• 217.230 Health care services for correctional centers.
• 217.235 Chaplain, appointment or arrangement for religious services.
• 217.240 Food and clothing of offenders — food deprivation not to be used as punishment.
• 217.245 Medical excuse from participation in required activities, procedure.
• 217.250 Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement will endanger or shorten life — certification to parole board, report to governor, procedure.
• 217.255 Compensation of offenders for labor, academic or vocational classes — hours of work, exceptions — payment to state or crime victims' compensation fund, when.
• 217.260 Earnings of offender, paid when — how used, payment to families, when — department powers.
• 217.262 Frivolous lawsuits, false testimony, abuse of judicial system by offender — sanctions.
• 217.265 Visitors, regulation of — clergymen's privileges.
• 217.270 Parole board to have access to offenders and records, when.
• 217.275 Carrying letters or writings without authorization prohibited, penalty.
• 217.280 Firearms may be carried by designated employees — powers of arrest and apprehension.
• 217.285 Clothing, money, transportation, return of personal property to discharged or paroled prisoners — exception.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- OFFENDER CLASSIFICATION, TREATMENT, RESTRICTIONS

• 217.300 Reception and diagnostic centers for classification of prisoners to be established.
• 217.305 Delivery of prisoners to correctional centers with certain required information.
• 217.310 Examination of new prisoners — identification data recorded.
• 217.315 System of identification, department to establish.
• 217.320 Identification systems, officers not liable for acts done in enforcing law.
• 217.325 Identification system mandatory.
• 217.330 Department to conduct tests — assignment of offender.
• 217.335 Classification teams, established — appointment, qualifications, duties.
• 217.337 Schedule of activities, work, and program, adherence to, exemption.
• 217.343 Emancipation of certain juvenile offenders for certain purposes.
• 217.345 First offenders and offenders eighteen or younger — mandatory program — physical separation of offenders less than eighteen years of age — rules — contract for provision of services — evaluation process.
• 217.350 Transfer of offender, when.
• 217.355 Education programs established, what included, enrollment required, when.
• 217.361 Risk and need assessment tools — department procedures, duties.
• 217.362 Program for offenders with substance abuse addiction — eligibility, disposition, placement — completion, effect.
• 217.364 Offenders under treatment program, placement, rules — eligibility — use, purpose, availability — failure to complete.
• 217.365 Offenders not to carry money, exceptions, violations, treated as contraband.
• 217.370 Discipline and grievance procedures established — chief administrative officer to abide by.
• 217.375 Administrative segregation, grounds for — review hearing required — records to be kept — access to medical personnel.
• 217.380 Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required — disciplinary segregation, hearing, time period.
• 217.385 Violence or injury to others or property by offender, penalty.
• 217.390 Escape, defined — penalty.
• 217.395 Escapee's apprehension — reward may be offered, limitations.
• 217.400 Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty.
• 217.405 Offender abuse, penalty — employees not to use physical force, exception.
• 217.410 Abuse of offender, duty to report, penalty — confidentiality of report, immunity from liability — harassment prohibited.
• 217.412 Autopsy required, when — reports to be maintained by department.
• 217.415 Disqualification from holding position in correctional facility, when.
• 217.420 Surgery, general anesthetic not authorized for offender without consent or court order, exceptions, emergencies — treatment against religious beliefs, when allowed.
• 217.425 Furlough of prisoners, when — time limitations, exceptions — waiver required, when — notice requirements.
• 217.430 Residential treatment centers and community based sanctions — assignment of offenders — contracts to establish, provisions, locations — payments, how made — inmates fund established, use — regulation of inmates.
• 217.435 Work or educational release program.
• 217.437 Work by offenders, not employment, when — benefitting entity immune from suit, exceptions.
• 217.439 Photograph of offender to be taken prior to release, when — provided to victim upon request.
• 217.440 Program of restorative justice, requirements.
• 217.441 Domestic phone calls, limit on total amount of costs charged to an offender.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- UNIFORM MANDATORY DISPOSITION OF DETAINERS

• 217.450 Offender may request final disposition of pending indictment, information or complaint, how requested — director to notify offender of pending actions, failure to notify, effect.
• 217.455 Director of division of adult institutions to transmit information and request.
• 217.460 Trial to be held, when — failure, effect.
• 217.465 Escape by offender, effect of.
• 217.470 Transportation expenses, how paid.
• 217.475 Director of division of adult institutions to inform prisoner of the law in writing.
• 217.480 Uniformity of construction.
• 217.485 Title of the law.
• 217.490 Agreement on detainers adopted — compact text.
• 217.495 Appropriate court defined.
• 217.500 Enforcement and cooperation required of whom.
• 217.505 Compact not to require application of habitual offender law.
• 217.510 Escape by offender, effect on.
• 217.515 Chief administrative officer to deliver offender, when.
• 217.520 Governor to designate administrator.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- INTERSTATE CORRECTIONS COMPACT

• 217.525 Director authorized to contract with United States for stated purposes.
• 217.530 Convicted offender not to be transferred to state where wanted for crime.
• 217.535 Compact adopted — text — contract must comply.
• 217.540 Powers and duties of director, delegation authorized.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- HOUSE ARREST PROGRAM

• 217.541 House arrest program, department to establish and regulate — limited release, when — arrest warrant may be issued by probation or parole officer, when — offenders to fund program.
• 217.542 Failure to return to house arrest, felony.
• 217.543 House arrest authorized for certain prisoners — jailer to establish program — remote electronic surveillance allowed — percentage of prisoner's wage to pay cost — violation penalty — (St. Louis City).

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- PRISON INDUSTRIES AND SERVICES

• 217.550 Prison industries and services program created — director to administer — approval required — report submitted to director, contents.
• 217.555 Advisory board, created, members, appointment, qualifications — duties — compensation.
• 217.560 Enterprise program diversification and purpose.
• 217.565 Director to provide plants, machinery and materials — distribution of products.
• 217.567 Director may contract with private entities for employment of inmates — leasing of correctional facility property — wages, director to set policies.
• 217.570 Sales of prison industry goods and services, procedure — open market sales, when.
• 217.575 Sales of goods or services to state or political subdivisions — promotion — price — certification of nonavailability required for state purchases, when.
• 217.580 Catalog of products furnished public officers — institutions to report estimates of needs.
• 217.590 Violations of sections 217.575 and 217.580, penalty.
• 217.592 Plasmapheresis program may be established as private enterprise on institution grounds — inmate employment, wages.
• 217.595 Working capital revolving fund created — source, uses — accounting, audit — transfer to general revenue prohibited.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- PROBATION AND PAROLE DIVISION AND PAROLE BOARD, POWERS AND DUTIES

• 217.650 Definitions.
• 217.655 Parole board, general duties — division duties.
• 217.665 Board members, appointment, qualifications — terms, vacancies — designation of chair and vice chair — compensation, expenses.
• 217.670 Decisions to be by majority vote — hearing panel, membership, duties — jurisdiction removal or appeal to board, when — decision to be final — closed meetings authorized — video conferencing.
• 217.675 Handbook of rules governing conduct of parolees furnished to whom, duties of board.
• 217.680 Offices, where located — space in correctional centers to be provided for hearings and interviews.
• 217.682 Secretary to be appointed, duties.
• 217.690 Board may order release or parole — assessment, personal hearing — fee — rules — eligibility for parole, how calculated — murder, eligibility for hearing — hearing procedure — notice — special conditions — education requirements, exceptions — rulemaking authority.
• 217.692 Eligibility for parole, offenders with life sentence, when — criteria — perjury, penalty.
• 217.695 Release from custody under supervision of division of probation and parole, registration with law enforcement officials required.
• 217.703 Earned compliance credits awarded, when.
• 217.705 Probation, parole, institutional parole, officers — appointment — duties.
• 217.710 Firearms, authority to carry, department's duties, training — rulemaking procedure.
• 217.718 Alternative to revocation proceedings, period of detention, requirements.
• 217.720 Arrest of person paroled or on conditional release — report — procedure — revocation of parole or release — effect of sentence — arrest of parolee from another state.
• 217.722 Probation officers, power to arrest, when — preliminary hearing allowed, when — notice to sentencing court.
• 217.725 Board may parole prisoner held on warrant.
• 217.730 Parole time as time of imprisonment, exception — final discharge — procedure to register to vote.
• 217.735 Lifetime supervision required for certain offenders — electronic monitoring — termination at age sixty-five permitted, when — rulemaking authority.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- CIRCUIT COURTS, PROBATION AND PAROLE

• 217.750 Probation services provided to circuit courts, when.
• 217.755 Probation services for courts, rules authorized.
• 217.760 Probation and parole officers furnished to circuit courts, when — presentence and preparole investigations — requirements.
• 217.762 Presentence investigation, required, when — victim impact statement, prepared when, contents.
• 217.777 Community corrections program alternative for eligible offenders, purpose — operation — rules — guidelines.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- GOVERNOR'S POWERS

• 217.800 Pardons by governor — conditions and restrictions — notice to central repository.
• 217.805 Governor may remit fine or forfeiture.
• 217.810 Interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- EXONEREE IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS

• 217.820 Exoneree defined — identification documents, department policy and procedures to assist exonerees in obtaining.
• 217.845 CARES Act moneys received by offender for COVID-19 to be used for restitution.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- UNLAWFUL USE OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

• 217.850 Correctional center, unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over, offense of — permissible acts — violation, penalty — signage to be posted.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

• 217.930 Suspension of MO HealthNet medical assistance in lieu of termination, when.

Chapter 217 Department of Corrections -- CORRECTIONAL CENTER NURSERY PROGRAM

• 217.940 Nursery program to be established, purpose — definitions.
• 217.941 Eligibility, placement, and program capacity.
• 217.942 Written agreement, contents — program policy required.
• 217.943 Termination of participation, when.
• 217.944 Child support payments, collected and deposited — monetary donations to program permitted.
• 217.945 Correctional center nursery program fund created, use of moneys.
• 217.946 Regulation and oversight by other agencies subject to department consent.
• 217.947 Sovereign immunity in effect — program not a waiver, not considered a dangerous condition.

Official text current through Missouri Revisor of Statutes chapter table of contents, read 2026-10-21. Full chapter. Headings from the chapter table of contents with full headnotes (lhn=y); the effective-date tags the revisor prints after each heading are dropped. Repealed sections are not shown in that table of contents. RSMo ch. 221, official text

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers

• 221.020 Sheriffs to be jailers, exception, Clay County.
• 221.025 Electronic monitoring permitted, when — credit of time against period of confinement.
• 221.030 Coroner to be jailer, when.
• 221.040 Sheriff and jailer to receive prisoners — penalty for refusal — medical exams required.
• 221.044 Persons under eighteen may not be confined in adult jails, exceptions .
• 221.050 Separation of prisoners.
• 221.060 Prisoners to have certain privileges.
• 221.065 Feminine hygiene products, available at no cost to female persons in custody.
• 221.070 Prisoners liable for cost of imprisonment — certification of outstanding debt.
• 221.080 County commission to bear certain expenses.
• 221.095 Private jails, defined — reports of possible criminal violations required — missing prisoners, requirements.
• 221.097 Private jails — prisoners to be confined separately, when — health care services, adequate care required — limitation on contracts with private jails.
• 221.102 Canteen or commissary in county jail authorized — revenues to be kept in separate account — fund created.
• 221.108 Phone services, reasonable access — limit on charges to inmates.
• 221.111 Delivery or concealment on premises of narcotics, liquor, or prohibited articles, penalties — visitation denied, when — personal items permitted to be posted — expungement, when.
• 221.120 Medicine and medical attention for prisoners, definitions.
• 221.122 Repayment for medical care to be term of probation, parole or conditional release.
• 221.125 Suspension of MO HealthNet medical assistance in lieu of termination, when.
• 221.130 Contagious disease — certification of physician — order for removal.
• 221.150 Shackling of prisoner, how paid.
• 221.160 Criminal costs, how paid.
• 221.170 Prisoners, leave from jail, when — compensation earned on leave, how applied — three-fourths rule (certain cities and counties).
• 221.230 Jail of another county to be used, when.
• 221.240 Sheriff to take prisoners before circuit court.
• 221.250 Failure of sheriff to comply with section 221.240 — penalty.
• 221.260 Commitment from another county, expenses, how paid.
• 221.270 Jailer to receive and keep United States prisoners.
• 221.280 Penalty for failure to receive and keep United States prisoners.
• 221.290 United States to pay for use of jails.
• 221.300 Grand jury to visit jail, when.
• 221.310 Humane treatment of prisoners.
• 221.320 Board of visitors — appointment — terms.
• 221.330 Organization of board.
• 221.340 Duties of board.
• 221.350 Board to make yearly report.
• 221.353 Damage to jail property, class E felony.

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers -- REGIONAL JAIL DISTRICTS

• 221.400 Regional jail districts may be established, procedure, contents, holding of prisoners.
• 221.402 Regional jail districts, powers.
• 221.405 Commission — members, vacancies, budget.
• 221.407 Regional jail district sales tax authorized, ballot language — special trust fund established.
• 221.410 Powers, duties.
• 221.415 Director, duties — salary.
• 221.420 Use of regional jail, purpose — county may keep its own jail.
• 221.425 Regional jail district solely liable for its debts — income exempt from state taxes.
• 221.430 District income, distribution upon dissolution.

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers -- MINIMUM SECURITY FACILITIES

• 221.500 Construction bids for a minimum security facility — commissioner of administration to contract with.

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers -- DANGEROUS FELONS, NOTICE OF ESCAPE

• 221.503 MULES to be notified of escape of a dangerous felon from certain jails and detention facilities, when, information to be included.

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers -- WARRANT CHECKS

• 221.510 Pending outstanding warrants in MULES and NCIC systems, inquiry conducted, when (Jake's Law).

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers -- ARREST WARRANTS SERVED ON INMATES

• 221.515 Jailers authorized to serve arrest warrants on inmates — jailers may carry firearms, when — escaped prisoners, power of jailer to arrest.

Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers -- PREGNANT OFFENDERS

• 221.520 Restraints, prohibited in third trimester of pregnancy — extraordinary circumstances, reuirements for use of restraints.
• 221.523 Intake and care of pregnant offenders, procedures.

Official text current through Missouri Revisor of Statutes chapter table of contents, read 2026-10-21. Only the opening, untitled group of chapter 590 (POST licensing, 590.010 to 590.195) is listed (the Officer Ledger library list of 2026-10-20 plus 590.195, re-checked 2026-10-21); the later named groups of the chapter (school protection officers, racial profiling, use-of-force transparency and others) are not listed. Repealed sections are not shown in the table of contents. RSMo 590.010 to 590.195, official text

Chapter 590 Peace Officers, Selection, Training and Discipline

• 590.010 Definitions.
• 590.020 Peace officer license required, when — classes of officers established — no license required, when.
• 590.030 Basic training, minimum standards established — age, citizenship and education requirements established by director — issuance of a license — federal Rap Back program, agencies to enroll.
• 590.033 Chief of police training course, POST commission to establish minimum standards — exemption, when — failure to complete, loss of funds — compensation.
• 590.040 Minimum hours of basic training required.
• 590.050 Continuing education requirements.
• 590.060 Minimum standards for training instructors and centers — licensure of instructors — background check required, when.
• 590.070 Commissioning and departure of peace officers, director to be notified — immunity from liability, chief executive officer, when.
• 590.075 Candidates for commissioning, chief executive officer to request copy of notifications under 590.070 — certified copy prior to commissioning.
• 590.080 Discipline of peace officers, grounds — complaint filed, hearing.
• 590.090 Suspension of a license, when, procedure.
• 590.100 Denial of an application, when — review process.
• 590.110 Investigation of denial of licensure, procedure.
• 590.118 Peace officer investigations made available to hiring law enforcement agencies.
• 590.120 Peace officer standards and training commission established — members, qualifications, appointment — terms — duties — removal from office — vacancies — chairperson, appointment — rules and regulations, authority.
• 590.145 Highway patrol academy fund created — use of funds therein.
• 590.178 Peace officer standards and training commission fund established.
• 590.180 Licensure status of peace officer inadmissible in determining validity of arrest — open records of peace officers.
• 590.190 Rulemaking authority.
• 590.192 Critical incident stress management program, purpose — services to be provided — requirements — confidentiality of information — fund created, use of moneys.
• 590.195 Violations, penalty.