Missouri Laws 217.380 – Records of violations and convictions of offenders, information required — ..
1. When an offender is found guilty of a violation of a correctional facility rule or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, a record of such violation or conviction shall be recorded in the offender’s file and in a central record. The record shall clearly state the offense, the reporting officer’s name, when and where the violation or offense was committed and the action taken by any disciplinary body or other personnel of the department.
2. An offender who has violated any published rule or regulation of the division or correctional facility relating to the conduct of offenders may, after proper hearing and upon order of the chief administrative officer or his or her designee of the correctional facility, be confined in a disciplinary segregation unit for a period not to exceed thirty days. Disciplinary segregation of more than ten days may only be given for serious conduct violations as defined by rule or regulation of the division.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 217.380
- Chief administrative officer: the institutional head of any correctional facility or his or her designee. See Missouri Laws 217.010
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Department: the department of corrections of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 217.010
- Disciplinary segregation: a cell for the segregation of offenders from the general population of a correctional center because the offender has been found to have committed a violation of a division or facility rule and other available means are inadequate to regulate the offender's behavior. See Missouri Laws 217.010
- Division: a statutorily created agency within the department or an agency created by the departmental organizational plan. See Missouri Laws 217.010
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Offender: a person under supervision or an inmate in the custody of the department. See Missouri Laws 217.010
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
3. Violation hearings under the provision of subsection 2 of this section are not contested cases under the provisions of chapter 536. Violation hearings under the provisions of subsection 2 of this section are not subject to the rules of evidence. The department may promulgate rules for violation hearings under the authority of subsection 2 of section 217.040. The conduct of and order from a violation hearing under the provisions of subsection 2 are final and unappealable.