Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
Chapter titles, centered headings, section catchlines, and explanatory notes are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any part of the law. For general laws governing construction of statutes, see KRS Chapter 446.
The KRS database was last updated on 11/22/2024
.010 Definitions for chapter.
.020 Repealed, 1974.
.025 Repealed, 1974.
.026 Organizational units of Department of Corrections.
.030 Functions of Department of Corrections.
.031 Employment of personnel -- Annual report.
.032 Department's objectives.
.035 Powers and duties of secretary.
.037 Department personnel to have powers of peace officers.
.040 Repealed, 1974.
.042 Criminal justice reinvestment fund -- Annual funds appropriations -- Dedicated use of funds.
.044 Annual calculations of cost savings resulting from 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 158 -- Deposit in criminal justice reinvestment fund.
.045 Administrative regulations for restoration of civil rights to eligible felony offenders.
.050 Repealed, 1950.
.060 Repealed, 1950.
.065 . Forensic psychiatric facility -- Initiation of mental hospitalization proceedings against inmate.
.070 Duties of commissioner of Department of Corrections -- Training programs.
.073 Governor's authority to authorize commissioner to consent to transfer of convicted offenders under federal treaty.
.075 Probation and parole functions.
.076 Probation and parole officer salary improvement program.
.080 Repealed, 1952.
.081 Renumbered as KRS 196.701.
.090 Repealed, 1962.
.091 Online system based on state statistics of offenders for use in plea negotiations and sentencing.
.093 Duties of Department of Corrections in regard to centralized criminal history record information system.
.097 Department of Corrections to update database within thirty days of receipt of information from certain levels.
.099 Photographic record of inmates.
.100 Repealed, 1962.
.110 Department to study crime prevention methods -- Encourage employment of inmates.
.111 Evidence-based practices to be used in treatment and intervention programs -- Standards -- Funding restrictions.
.120 Department may acquire farm lands.
.130 University to investigate lands that department wishes to acquire.
.135 Compliance with KRS 100.361(2) required, when.
.140 Condemnation by department.
.150 Department may use money received from federal government.
.160 Appointment of personnel for each institution -- Dress and grooming requirements -- Contributions to hazardous duty retirement program -- Career retention program.
.165 Purchase of liability insurance for department's health care professionals.
.167 Transfer of employees, property, and records associated with inmate education from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to the department -- Employee benefits.
.170 Repealed, 1962.
.171 Corrections personnel to take educational course on AIDS.
.173 Pregnant inmates housed in jail, penitentiary, local or state correctional or detention facility, residential center, or reentry center -- Permissible and impermissible restraints.
.174 Housing of inmate known to be pregnant or in immediate post-partum period -- Definition.
.175 Pregnant inmate -- Access to community-based programs -- Social worker to discuss options for care, feeding, and placement of infant -- Inmate's access to telephone -- Facility to provide nutrition and hygiene-related products for care of infant free of charge to indigent inmate.
.176 Annual report on restricted housing of inmates to Legislative Research Commission and Judiciary Committee -- Report to be published on Legislative Research Commission's Web site.
.180 Duties of warden -- Removal -- Expungement of dismissed or voided disciplinary reports.
.190 Duties of receiver.
.200 Repealed, 1962.
.210 Members of board not to recommend employees -- Officers to be selected for merit.
.220 Employees in institutions exempt from attendance as witnesses.
.230 Officers not to sell to institutions -- Additional compensation and gifts forbidden.
.240 Repealed, 1994
.245 Commissioner may permit or prohibit smoking by inmates.
.250 Repealed, 1978.
.260 Repealed, 1978.
.270 Centralized canteen operation -- Management -- Use of proceeds.
.280 Notification of release of person from penitentiary, facility for youthful offenders, regional jail, or county jail -- Escape.
.281 Documentation provided to prisoners upon release -- Issuance of certificate of employability -- Eligibility, contents, and revocation.
.282 Resumé writing
.285 Intensive secured substance abuse recovery program.
.286 Measurement and documentation of cost savings from 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 2, secs. 5 to 22 -- Average cost of incarceration -- Savings to benefit treatment programs -- Budget requests and enactments.
.287 Portion of savings identified in KRS 196.286 to be used to expand treatment programs in existing state penal institutions.
.288 Measurement and documentation of cost savings resulting from 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 2 -- Reinvestment or distribution of savings -- Determination of average cost of services -- Budget allocations.
.350 Repealed, 1952.
.360 Repealed, 1952.
.370 Repealed, 1952.
.380 Repealed, 1952.
.390 Repealed, 1952.
.400 Repealed, 1952.
.410 Repealed, 1952.
.420 Repealed, 1952.
.430 Repealed, 1952.
.440 Repealed, 1950 and 1952.
.450 Repealed, 1952.
.460 Repealed, 1978.
.470 Repealed, 1978.
.480 Repealed, 1962.
.490 Repealed, 1978.
.510 Repealed, 1962.
.520 Repealed, 1962.
.530 Repealed, 1962.
.540 Repealed, 1962.
.550 Repealed, 1962.
.610 Interstate Corrections Compact.
.620 Commissioner's powers as to compact.
.700 Definitions for KRS 196.700 to 196.735.
.701 Kentucky State Corrections Commission -- Membership.
.702 Functions of the commission.
.703 Inspection powers of commission.
.704 Commission's duties relating to Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program.
.705 Administration of programs by Kentucky State Corrections Commission -- Purposes of programs.
.710 Awarding of grants -- Criteria.
.715 Services for targeted offenders -- Assessment of victims' needs.
.720 Plan requirements.
.725 Community corrections boards -- Membership -- Meetings -- Duties.
.730 Restriction on use of funds.
.731 Pilot projects to grant performance incentive funding to community corrections programs -- Annual calculations of cost savings of state funds.
.732 Community corrections funds -- Deposit of state funds saved via pilot projects -- Purposes of appropriated funds.
.735 Annual evaluation -- Renewal or continuation of programs.
.736 Annual report on implementation of pilot projects instituted pursuant to KRS 196.731.
.990 Penalties.