ND HB1112

Department of corrections and rehabilitation may refuse to admit sentenced inmates when doing so would exceed maximum operational capacity of the penitentiary and affiliated facilities and authorized legislative appropriation for contracting housing in other correctional facilities.

Maximum operational capacity means the total number of inmates that may be imprisoned simultaneously in the penitentiary and its affiliated facilities.

Department must develop a prison population management plan to prioritize admissions based on sentences and available space, with negotiated agreements for local jails or correctional facilities that include a minimum daily rate per inmate covering medical costs.

Department must pay the governing body of local jails or correctional facilities a minimum daily rate per inmate beginning the day after receiving notice from district court of an order placing an individual in the department's care and custody.

Department shall report annually to legislative management on the prison population management plan, inmate admissions, and the number of inmates not admitted after sentencing.