Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 2, February 2024
DOC 103 Offenders
Commissaries
I.
AUTHORITY:
The Board of Correction and Community Punishment is vested with
the authority to promulgate Administrative Regulations by Act 50 of 1968,
Extraordinary Session, as amended; Acts 548 and 549 of 1993, regular Session
(Ark. Code Ann. §
16-93-1203
and
12-27-105
of 1993).
II.
PURPOSE:
To describe the fiscal operation of the offender commissaries and
to require pricing policies and procedures.
III.
APPLICABILITY:
To the Board of Correction and Community Punishment,
wardens/center supervisors/administrators, and all employees involved in the
authorization and operation of facility commissaries.
IV.
POLICY:
It shall be the policy of the Department of Correction/Community
Punishment to provide facility commissary operations.
V.
DEFINITIONS:
A. Commissary - A store established within a
facility where food and supplies are sold.
B. Offender Assistance/Welfare Fund - a
self-supporting enterprise financed and operated through sales to offenders and
employees; residual equity of the fund being used to provide benefits to
offenders not ordinarily provided by tax revenues.
C.
Offenders:
Persons sentenced to the Department of Correction or to the Department of
Correction for judicial transfer to the Department of Community Punishment or
confined in a community punishment center as a condition of probation,
suspended imposition of sentence or post prison transfer.
VI.
PROCEDURES:
A. Establishment
Each facility shall establish a commissary for offender
use.
1. Items sold in the facility
commissaries must be indicated on the Standardized Commissary Items listing and
be approved by the warden/center supervisor.
B. Fiscal Operations
1. Commissary pricing policies shall be
established by the Board of Correction and Community Punishment.
a. Upon approval, a copy of the appropriate
administrative directive(s) shall be forwarded to each facility for
posting.
2. The net
profit from items sold in the facility commissaries is to be placed in the
Offender Assistance/Welfare Fund and expended for the benefit of the offender
population under guidelines established by the Board of Correction and
Community Punishment.
3. No goods
can be sold on credit or consignment.
4. A monthly inventory will be taken within
guidelines of the Administrative Services Division.
Facility commissaries are to be kept clean and orderly.
The warden/center supervisor of each facility shall publish
procedures relative to commissary operations and privileges.
VII.
REFERENCES:
ACA Standard 3-4042; 3-4159
Board Approval Date: 2/17/94
Reference: AD 91:28
Effective Date: 3/10/94
Supersedes: DCP 2.3
Dated: 1/19/94 12/04/91
