Classification of penal facilities and programs
Sec. 6. (a) The department shall:
(1) classify all penal facilities and programs to which convicted
persons may be assigned for supervision or custodial care
according to:
(A) maximum, medium, or minimum security function; and
(B) treatment program available; and
(2) furnish the classifications to all judges with general criminal
jurisdiction.
(b) A maximum security assignment constitutes an assignment of
a convicted person to a penal facility and correctional program that
are designed to insure that the person remains within a walled or
fenced facility where entry and exit of any person occurs only
through department supervised gates and where periodic inmate
population accounting and supervision by the department occurs
each day.
(c) A medium security assignment constitutes an assignment of a
convicted person to a penal facility and correctional program that are
designed to insure that if the person is permitted outside the
supervised gates of a walled or fenced facility, the department will
provide continuous staff supervision and the person will be
accounted for throughout the day.
(d) A minimum security assignment constitutes an assignment of
a convicted person to a work release center or program, to
intermittent service of a sentence, or to a program requiring weekly
reporting to a designated official. Assignment to minimum security
need not involve a penal facility.
As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.3.
Last modified: May 24, 2006