POLICIES
Listed below are the Department of Corrections policies. The list of policies includes the policy name and number, which unit or units (Adult, Juvenile or All) that a particular policy impacts and whether the policy is for public distribution. For safety and security reasons, those policies marked as "Non-Public" are not made available to offenders in the care and custody of the Department of Corrections and are also not available online.
The Board of Pardons and Paroles policies are also listed below.
DISCLAIMER: The Department of Corrections makes all reasonable efforts to assure the policies on this website are current. However, users should not rely on this information to be absolute.
While links in the policies will direct you to related statutes and administrative rules available elsewhere on the internet, the links to other related DOC policies or policies developed by other state agencies are not operational in the online version. To access a particular DOC policy, please return to the list of policies and click on the title you wish to read. The online versions of the policy attachments are also not available.
If you have a question on a policy or wish to receive a copy of an attachment or the most recent version of a policy, contact the Policy and Compliance Manager by phone at 605-773-3478.
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Department of Corrections Policies
Administration and Management
Physical Plant
Number |
Name
|
Units | Distribution |
---|---|---|---|
1.2.A.01 | Fire Prevention | All | Public |
1.2.A.03 | Institutional Sanitation and Safety Inspections | All | Public |
1.2.E.01 | Offender Commissary | Adult | Public |
1.2.G.01 | Tool Control | Adult | Public |
Institutional/Agency Operations
Number |
Name
|
Units | Distribution |
---|---|---|---|
1.3.A.02 | Offender Counts | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.03 | Use of Force | Adult | Non-Public |
1.3.A.05 | Searches-Institutions | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.07 | Offender Transport & Escort | Adult | Non-Public |
1.3.A.08 | Offender Drug Testing, Sanctions and Treatment | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.09 | Facility Security Audits | Adult | Non-Public |
1.3.A.11 | Post Orders | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.13 | Staff Use and Control of Firearms | Adult | Non-Public |
1.3.A.14 | Canine Teams | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.17 | Duty Officer | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.18 | Offender Release Procedure | Adult | Public |
1.3.A.19 | Offender Transfers Between Institutions | Adult | Public |
1.3.B.01 | Emergency Response | All | Public |
1.3.B.3 | Mutual Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies | All | Public |
1.3.B.04 | Control Use and Disposal of Hazardous Materials | All | Public |
1.3.B.06 | Critical Message Notification | All | Non-Public |
1.3.B.08 | Capital Punishment Procedures | Adult | Non-Public |
1.3.C.02 | Offender Discipline System | Adult | Public |
1.3.C.04 | Offender Personal Property | Adult | Public |
1.3.C.07 | Tobacco Products and Electronic Cigarettes-Use and Possession | All | Public |
1.3.C.08 | Publications | All | Public |
1.3.C.10 | Offender DNA Collection | All | Public |
1.3.C.12 | Sex Offender Registration | All | Public |
1.3.D.05 | Marriage of an Offender | Adult | Public |
1.3.D.06 | Prison Rape Elimination Act | Adult | Public |
1.3.D.07 | Grievance Procedure | Adult | Public |
1.3.E.1 | Offender Access to the Courts | Adult | Public |
Institutional/Agency Services
Number |
Name
|
Units
|
Distribution |
---|---|---|---|
1.4.A.1 | Inmate Photo Identification | Adult | Public |
1.4.A.03 | Sex Offender Management Program | Adult | Public |
1.4.A.05 | Management of Gender Dysphoria | Adult | Non-Public |
1.4.B.1 | Individual Program Directives (IPD) | Adult | Public |
1.4.B.17 | Offender Earned Discharge Credits | Adult | Public |
1.4.B.18 | Restrictive Housing | Adult | Public |
1.4.E.5 | Inmate Health Records | All | Public |
1.4.E.6 | Death of an Offender or Unresponsive Offender | All | Public |
1.4.E.7 | Offender Suicide Prevention and Intervention | All | Public |
1.4.G.1 | Offender Release Planning and Transition to Parole | Adult | Public |
Offender Programs
Board of Pardons and Paroles Policies
Number |
Name
|
Units | Distribution |
---|---|---|---|
8.1.A.1 | News Media and Cameras at Parole Board Hearings | Board | Public |
8.1.A.2 | Parole and Suspended Sentence Revocation Hearings | Board | Public |
8.1.A.4 | Parole Date Review | Board | Public |
8.1.A.5 | Parole Board Decisions and Setting of Next Review Dates | Board | Public |
8.1.A.6 | Code of Ethics | Board | Public |
8.1.A.7 | Early Discharges | Board | Public |
8.1.A.8 | Witholding Parole, Restitution Hearing, Compassionate Parole | Board | Public |
8.1.A.9 | Execuitve Clemency-Pardons | Board | Public |
8.1.A.10 | Executive Clemency-Commutations | Board | Public |
8.1.A.11 | Withholding of Parole Eligibility | Board | Public |
8.1.A.13 | Rescission of Parole | Board | Public |
8.1.A.14 | Evidence-based Practices Training | Board | Public |
8.1.A.15 | Suspended Sentence Status Report | Board | Public |
8.1.A.16 | Compassionate Parole | Board | Public |