Summary

State correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment and educational programs; reentry planning. Expands the program assignments in which the Director of the Department of Corrections may place a prisoner while such prisoner is confined in a state correctional facility. The bill requires the Director to place a prisoner in an appropriate program assignment within (i) 90 days of the arrival of a prisoner sentenced to a new term of confinement to a state correctional facility or (ii) 60 days of a prisoner already in custody being transferred to a new state correctional facility and provides that participation in such program assignments shall be for an average of 30 hours per week, calculated individually across the calendar year. Finally, the bill expands upon the requirements for a prisoner's reentry plan, including requiring an assessment, if necessary, of a prisoner's readiness to take a high school equivalency test and any modifications needed for the prisoner to take or improve upon such test, and making available peer and group educational programs developed and led by qualified prisoners.

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Bill text

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• IntroducedOfficial document (HTML)
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• Transportation & Public Safety Subcommittee SubstituteOfficial document (PDF)
• Transportation & Public Safety Subcommittee SubstituteOfficial document (HTML)
• Appropriations SubstituteOfficial document (HTML)
• Appropriations SubstituteOfficial document (PDF)
• Appropriations SubstituteOfficial document (HTML)
• Appropriations SubstituteOfficial document (PDF)
• Rehabilitation and Social Services SubstituteOfficial document (PDF)
• Rehabilitation and Social Services SubstituteOfficial document (HTML)

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