MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1998 Regular Session

To: Penitentiary; Appropriations

By: Representative Banks

House Bill 1647

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH LAW LIBRARIES IN ALL STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND IN ANY PRIVATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY THAT HOUSES STATE OFFENDERS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. (1) The Commissioner of Corrections shall establish at each state correctional facility and shall require each private correctional facility that houses state offenders to establish a law library. State offenders shall be given reasonable access to a law library established under this subsection.

(2) The law libraries required to be established under subsection (1) of this act shall be funded by funds appropriated by the Legislature to the Department of Corrections.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1998.