Chapter 168
2011 -- S 0677
Enacted 06/30/11
A N A C T
RELATING TO
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT
Introduced By: Senator Michael J. McCaffrey
Date Introduced: March 10, 2011
It is enacted by the
General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 42-56-29 of the General Laws in Chapter
42-56 entitled
"Corrections
Department" is hereby amended to read as follows:
42-56-29.
Receiving and orientation unit -- Study of incoming prisoners. -- To
establish security standards which will safeguard society and
which will provide for the most
efficient possible rehabilitation of individual prisoners,
there shall be established within the
department of corrections a receiving and orientation unit which
shall receive all persons
sentenced to the adult correctional institutions for a term of
imprisonment of more than one year.
Every person so sentenced shall be segregated for a
period not to exceed thirty (30) days during
which period the person shall be studied and evaluated to
determine whether the person shall be a
maximum, medium, or minimum security risk and to develop a
program of rehabilitation,
education, and medical and other care as shall be deemed
necessary and appropriate to prepare
the person to become a useful member of society. During
the period, a medical assessment,
psychometric, and psychological examination and an assessment of rehabilitative needs
shall be
made of the person and the results, together with the
nature of the offense for which the person
has been committed, the previous criminal history, if
any, the recommendations of the department
of the attorney general and of the sentencing court and
the social history of the person shall be
studied and evaluated in determining the degree of custodial
care of the person, the rehabilitation
program for the person, the medical or other care that may be
necessary and the spiritual and
religious guidance that shall be indicated by the preference of
the person.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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LC01263
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