The Mississippi Department of Corrections is authorized, subject to the availability of funds, to secure a biological sample for purposes of DNA identification analysis from every individual convicted of a felony or in its custody before release from or transfer to a state correctional facility or county jail or other detention facility.
Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-183
Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Polston v. State (2005)
Most recently applied in Polston v. State (January 2005)
Laws, 2003, ch. 459, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2003.
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