Bill > SB2026

This bill appropriates a total of $468,953,599 for the support and maintenance of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026. * **General Fund Appropriation:** $438,203,210 from the State General Fund for the overall support and maintenance of the Department of Corrections. * **Special Fund Appropriation:** $30,750,389 from special funds in the State Treasury collected by or available to the Department of Corrections for defraying expenses. * **Central Office Operations:** $33,636,746 ($28,070,824 General Fund, $5,565,922 Special Funds) authorized for 174 permanent and 8 time-limited positions. * **Farming Operations:** $4,010,355 ($0 General Fund, $4,010,355 Special Funds) authorized for 4 permanent positions. * **Parole Board:** $759,228 ($759,228 General Fund, $0 Special Funds) authorized for 8 permanent positions. * **Private Prisons:** $69,464,004 ($69,464,004 General Fund, $0 Special Funds) with no authorized headcount. * **Medical Services:** $122,022,661 ($121,647,214 General Fund, $375,447 Special Funds) authorized for 1 permanent and 2 time-limited positions. * **Regional Facilities:** $54,806,825 ($54,806,825 General Fund, $0 Special Funds) with no authorized headcount. * **Community Corrections:** $40,726,617 ($27,493,893 General Fund, $13,232,724 Special Funds) authorized for 486 permanent and 83 time-limited positions. * **Local Confinement:** $10,064,537 ($10,064,537 General Fund, $0 Special Funds) with no authorized headcount. * **Central Mississippi Correctional:** $38,608,261 ($37,014,481 General Fund, $1,593,780 Special Funds) authorized for 606 permanent and 5 time-limited positions. * **Parchman:** $38,936,504 ($36,613,206 General Fund, $2,323,298 Special Funds) authorized for 617 permanent and 9 time-limited positions. * **South Mississippi Correctional:** $27,203,787 ($25,805,505 General Fund, $1,398,282 Special Funds) authorized for 473 permanent and 4 time-limited positions. * **Marshall County Correctional:** $9,810,900 ($9,060,720 General Fund, $750,180 Special Funds) authorized for 140 permanent positions. * **Walnut Grove Correctional:** $10,718,713 ($9,968,509 General Fund, $750,204 Special Funds) authorized for 161 permanent positions. * **Delta Correctional:** $8,184,461 ($7,434,264 General Fund, $750,197 Special Funds) authorized for 114 permanent positions. * **Personal Services:** $143,999,745 ($124,920,664 General Fund, $19,079,081 Special Funds) for salaries, wages, and fringe benefits, with a total authorized headcount of 2,784 permanent and 111 time-limited positions. * **Victim's Notification Programs:** $510,261 from the General Fund. * **Monitoring Technology for Probation and Parole Officers:** $2,400,000 from the General Fund. * **Inmate Welfare Fund:** Up to $9,250,000 from Special Funds, with $500,000 specifically for transitional housing and post-release reentry programs. * **Inmate Incentive to Work Program Fund:** Up to $1,000,000 from Special Funds to pay inmates participating in the program. * **Medical Services Contract Monitoring:** $690,000, primarily from clawed-back funds, for monitoring and review of the medical services contract. * **Municipal Reimbursement for Housing Offenders:** Up to $125,000 for reimbursement to municipalities for housing inmates convicted of larceny, shoplifting, or related offenses where the property value is between $500 and $1,000. * **Clothing for Sworn Nonuniform Law Enforcement Officers:** Up to $1,000 annually per officer from Special Funds. The bill also includes provisions regarding the Commissioner's authority to transfer spending authority, reporting requirements for performance measures, restrictions on personnel housing utilities, payment for court-ordered attorney fees, prohibition of payments to certain individuals, inmate work requirements at Parchman, per diem rates for regional facilities, limitations on medical service payments, reporting of clawed-back funds, preference for Mississippi Industries for the Blind in purchasing, and the maintenance of accounting and personnel records.