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2011 SESSION
Herring (Chairman), Wagner, Barker, Northam, Stanley
Clerk: Maryann Horch, Nick Galvin
Staff: Sarah Stanton, Wenzel Cummings
Date of Meeting: January 26, 2011
Time and Place: 9:30 a.m. / 4th Floor East Conference Room
Patron: Locke
Rehabilitative programming; earned sentence credits. Allows prisoners to earn 10 additional sentence credits for each 30 days of incarceration for participation in programs aimed at earning a GED, college credit, or a certification through an accredited vocational training program or other accredited continuing education program, or interventional rehabilitation programs including mental health and sex offender treatment.
Patron: McDougle
Department of Corrections; inmate savings accounts. Requires the Department of Corrections to establish for each inmate a personal savings account consisting of 10 percent of any funds received by an inmate from any source until the account has a balance of $1,000. Funds in an inmate%92s personal savings account shall be paid to the inmate upon parole or final discharge.
Patron: Miller, Y.B.
Juvenile work programs. Adds additional members to the committee that reviews agreements with a public or private entity for the operation of a work program for juveniles committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. In addition, the bill requires the committee to develop and submit to the Department a plan for the establishment of a network of businesses willing to employ juveniles released from the Department's commitment.
Patron: Hanger
Corrections; use of inmate labor. Authorizes the use of inmate labor at rest areas along the Interstate Highway System.
Patron: Howell
Jails; electronic visitation and messaging. Allows sheriffs who operate correctional facilities to charge a fee for the use of an electronic visitation system or electronic messaging system. The fee may not exceed the actual costs of establishing and operating the system and the proceeds are to be used only to offset those costs.
Patron: McWaters
Jails; localities’ responsibility to pay jail expenses. Clarifies that localities are responsible for the payment of expenses of operating and maintaining local correctional facilities, including board, clothing, and medical attention for prisoners.
Patron: McEachin
Rate at which sentence credits may be earned. Allows a maximum of seven and one-half sentence credits, as opposed to the current four and one-half, for each 30 days served.
Patron: Quayle
Local correctional facilities; collection of fees and costs. Allows sheriffs and jail superintendents to enter into installment payment agreements with prisoners for the payment, after release, of costs and fees owed for the prisoner’s keep. The bill also allows the enforcement of such payment agreements through driver’s license suspension. The bill allows the sheriffs and jail superintendents to use private attorneys and collection agencies to collect fees and costs due them.
Patron: Miller, J.C.
Prison printing shops. Provides that state institutions of higher education may, but are not required to, purchase the products of print shops in state correctional facilities.