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MS SB2606

Bill

Status

Failed

4/4/2012

Primary Sponsor

Sampson Jackson

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Removes the requirement that all male death row inmates be housed specifically at the State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi.

  • Allows male inmates convicted of capital offenses with death sentences to be housed at any appropriate maximum security facility designated by the Commissioner of Corrections.

  • Maintains existing requirement that female death row inmates be housed in an appropriate facility designated by the Commissioner of Corrections.

  • Takes effect July 1, 2012.

Legislative Description

Male death row inmates; may be housed at appropriate maximum security facility instead of State Penitentiary at Parchman.

Last Action

Died In Committee

4/4/2012

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