Nevada Revised Statutes 212.1895 – Applicability of certain provisions to custodian and prisoner assigned to private facility or institution; training to perform duties of correctional officer at private facility or institution; reimbursement to Stat…
1. The provisions of this section and NRS 212.030 to 212.130, inclusive, and 212.160 to 212.189, inclusive, apply to:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 212.1895
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
(a) A person who has custody of a prisoner assigned to a private facility or institution in this State; and
(b) A prisoner assigned to a private facility or institution in this State, to the same extent that those provisions would apply if the prisoner had been assigned to a facility or institution operated by the Department of Corrections.
2. A private organization that operates a private facility or institution must provide training to any person employed by the private facility or institution to perform the duties of a correctional officer described in subsection 5 of NRS 209.131. The training must be equivalent to the training provided to a correctional officer in this State.
3. The private organization that operates a private facility or institution must reimburse the State for any expenses charged against the State or paid by the State pursuant to NRS 212.040, 212.050 or 212.070 concerning a prisoner who escapes from the private facility or institution.
4. As used in this section:
(a) ’Prisoner’ means any person who is:
(1) Convicted of a crime under the laws of this State and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison; or
(2) Convicted of a crime under the laws of another jurisdiction and sentenced to imprisonment by that jurisdiction.
(b) ’Private facility or institution’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 209.083.