622:39 Authority. –
All security officers of the prison security force shall be ex officio constables and shall possess general police powers including the power of arrest, but such powers shall extend only to the confines of the grounds of the prisons and only to the period during which such officers are on official active duty. The only 2 instances where the authority of members of the prison security force shall extend beyond the prisons' grounds are:
I. Where a member of the security force is in hot pursuit of a person or persons who have committed a crime or violation while on prison grounds or who have committed the crime of escape from the prisons; and
II. Where a member of the prison security force is transporting a court committed inmate.
Source. 1977, 599:2. 1998, 386:14, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.