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MS SB2877
Bill
AI Summary
- Removes the requirement that an inmate be terminally ill to qualify for conditional medical release under Mississippi Code Section 47-7-4
- Allows eligible nonviolent offenders to be placed on conditional medical release regardless of time served, while other offenders must have served at least one year of their sentence
- Maintains existing exclusion for offenders convicted of sex crimes from conditional medical release eligibility
- Requires the medical director to certify that the offender has a significant permanent physical medical condition that is incapacitating or totally disabling before release can be granted
- Specifies that the state is not responsible for medical costs incurred after an offender is released on conditional medical release
Legislative Description
Corrections; revise conditions for medical release of inmates.
Last Action
Died In Committee
3/1/2011
Full Bill Text
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