98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB1250

 

Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 5/3-2-2  from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2

    Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections, by December 31 of each year, shall issue an annual report on persons committed to Department facilities for drug-related offenses. Provides that the report shall include the class of offense, age, race, ethnicity, and last known zip code of each person committed to a Department facility for a drug-related offense. Provides that the report shall be provided to each member of the General Assembly and shall be made available on the Department's website.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5changing Section 3-2-2 as follows:
 
6    (730 ILCS 5/3-2-2)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2)
7    Sec. 3-2-2. Powers and Duties of the Department.
8    (1) In addition to the powers, duties and responsibilities
9which are otherwise provided by law, the Department shall have
10the following powers:
11        (a) To accept persons committed to it by the courts of
12    this State for care, custody, treatment and
13    rehabilitation, and to accept federal prisoners and aliens
14    over whom the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee is
15    authorized to exercise the federal detention function for
16    limited purposes and periods of time.
17        (b) To develop and maintain reception and evaluation
18    units for purposes of analyzing the custody and
19    rehabilitation needs of persons committed to it and to
20    assign such persons to institutions and programs under its
21    control or transfer them to other appropriate agencies. In
22    consultation with the Department of Alcoholism and
23    Substance Abuse (now the Department of Human Services), the

 

 

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1    Department of Corrections shall develop a master plan for
2    the screening and evaluation of persons committed to its
3    custody who have alcohol or drug abuse problems, and for
4    making appropriate treatment available to such persons;
5    the Department shall report to the General Assembly on such
6    plan not later than April 1, 1987. The maintenance and
7    implementation of such plan shall be contingent upon the
8    availability of funds.
9        (b-1) To create and implement, on January 1, 2002, a
10    pilot program to establish the effectiveness of
11    pupillometer technology (the measurement of the pupil's
12    reaction to light) as an alternative to a urine test for
13    purposes of screening and evaluating persons committed to
14    its custody who have alcohol or drug problems. The pilot
15    program shall require the pupillometer technology to be
16    used in at least one Department of Corrections facility.
17    The Director may expand the pilot program to include an
18    additional facility or facilities as he or she deems
19    appropriate. A minimum of 4,000 tests shall be included in
20    the pilot program. The Department must report to the
21    General Assembly on the effectiveness of the program by
22    January 1, 2003.
23        (b-5) To develop, in consultation with the Department
24    of State Police, a program for tracking and evaluating each
25    inmate from commitment through release for recording his or
26    her gang affiliations, activities, or ranks.

 

 

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1        (c) To maintain and administer all State correctional
2    institutions and facilities under its control and to
3    establish new ones as needed. Pursuant to its power to
4    establish new institutions and facilities, the Department
5    may, with the written approval of the Governor, authorize
6    the Department of Central Management Services to enter into
7    an agreement of the type described in subsection (d) of
8    Section 405-300 of the Department of Central Management
9    Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-300). The Department shall
10    designate those institutions which shall constitute the
11    State Penitentiary System.
12        Pursuant to its power to establish new institutions and
13    facilities, the Department may authorize the Department of
14    Central Management Services to accept bids from counties
15    and municipalities for the construction, remodeling or
16    conversion of a structure to be leased to the Department of
17    Corrections for the purposes of its serving as a
18    correctional institution or facility. Such construction,
19    remodeling or conversion may be financed with revenue bonds
20    issued pursuant to the Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act
21    by the municipality or county. The lease specified in a bid
22    shall be for a term of not less than the time needed to
23    retire any revenue bonds used to finance the project, but
24    not to exceed 40 years. The lease may grant to the State
25    the option to purchase the structure outright.
26        Upon receipt of the bids, the Department may certify

 

 

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1    one or more of the bids and shall submit any such bids to
2    the General Assembly for approval. Upon approval of a bid
3    by a constitutional majority of both houses of the General
4    Assembly, pursuant to joint resolution, the Department of
5    Central Management Services may enter into an agreement
6    with the county or municipality pursuant to such bid.
7        (c-5) To build and maintain regional juvenile
8    detention centers and to charge a per diem to the counties
9    as established by the Department to defray the costs of
10    housing each minor in a center. In this subsection (c-5),
11    "juvenile detention center" means a facility to house
12    minors during pendency of trial who have been transferred
13    from proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to
14    prosecutions under the criminal laws of this State in
15    accordance with Section 5-805 of the Juvenile Court Act of
16    1987, whether the transfer was by operation of law or
17    permissive under that Section. The Department shall
18    designate the counties to be served by each regional
19    juvenile detention center.
20        (d) To develop and maintain programs of control,
21    rehabilitation and employment of committed persons within
22    its institutions.
23        (d-5) To provide a pre-release job preparation program
24    for inmates at Illinois adult correctional centers.
25        (e) To establish a system of supervision and guidance
26    of committed persons in the community.

 

 

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1        (f) To establish in cooperation with the Department of
2    Transportation to supply a sufficient number of prisoners
3    for use by the Department of Transportation to clean up the
4    trash and garbage along State, county, township, or
5    municipal highways as designated by the Department of
6    Transportation. The Department of Corrections, at the
7    request of the Department of Transportation, shall furnish
8    such prisoners at least annually for a period to be agreed
9    upon between the Director of Corrections and the Director
10    of Transportation. The prisoners used on this program shall
11    be selected by the Director of Corrections on whatever
12    basis he deems proper in consideration of their term,
13    behavior and earned eligibility to participate in such
14    program - where they will be outside of the prison facility
15    but still in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
16    Prisoners convicted of first degree murder, or a Class X
17    felony, or armed violence, or aggravated kidnapping, or
18    criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse
19    or a subsequent conviction for criminal sexual abuse, or
20    forcible detention, or arson, or a prisoner adjudged a
21    Habitual Criminal shall not be eligible for selection to
22    participate in such program. The prisoners shall remain as
23    prisoners in the custody of the Department of Corrections
24    and such Department shall furnish whatever security is
25    necessary. The Department of Transportation shall furnish
26    trucks and equipment for the highway cleanup program and

 

 

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1    personnel to supervise and direct the program. Neither the
2    Department of Corrections nor the Department of
3    Transportation shall replace any regular employee with a
4    prisoner.
5        (g) To maintain records of persons committed to it and
6    to establish programs of research, statistics and
7    planning.
8        (h) To investigate the grievances of any person
9    committed to the Department, to inquire into any alleged
10    misconduct by employees or committed persons, and to
11    investigate the assets of committed persons to implement
12    Section 3-7-6 of this Code; and for these purposes it may
13    issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and
14    the production of writings and papers, and may examine
15    under oath any witnesses who may appear before it; to also
16    investigate alleged violations of a parolee's or
17    releasee's conditions of parole or release; and for this
18    purpose it may issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of
19    witnesses and the production of documents only if there is
20    reason to believe that such procedures would provide
21    evidence that such violations have occurred.
22        If any person fails to obey a subpoena issued under
23    this subsection, the Director may apply to any circuit
24    court to secure compliance with the subpoena. The failure
25    to comply with the order of the court issued in response
26    thereto shall be punishable as contempt of court.

 

 

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1        (i) To appoint and remove the chief administrative
2    officers, and administer programs of training and
3    development of personnel of the Department. Personnel
4    assigned by the Department to be responsible for the
5    custody and control of committed persons or to investigate
6    the alleged misconduct of committed persons or employees or
7    alleged violations of a parolee's or releasee's conditions
8    of parole shall be conservators of the peace for those
9    purposes, and shall have the full power of peace officers
10    outside of the facilities of the Department in the
11    protection, arrest, retaking and reconfining of committed
12    persons or where the exercise of such power is necessary to
13    the investigation of such misconduct or violations.
14        (j) To cooperate with other departments and agencies
15    and with local communities for the development of standards
16    and programs for better correctional services in this
17    State.
18        (k) To administer all moneys and properties of the
19    Department.
20        (l) To report annually to the Governor on the committed
21    persons, institutions and programs of the Department.
22        (l-5) (Blank).
23        (m) To make all rules and regulations and exercise all
24    powers and duties vested by law in the Department.
25        (n) To establish rules and regulations for
26    administering a system of sentence credits, established in

 

 

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1    accordance with Section 3-6-3, subject to review by the
2    Prisoner Review Board.
3        (o) To administer the distribution of funds from the
4    State Treasury to reimburse counties where State penal
5    institutions are located for the payment of assistant
6    state's attorneys' salaries under Section 4-2001 of the
7    Counties Code.
8        (p) To exchange information with the Department of
9    Human Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family
10    Services for the purpose of verifying living arrangements
11    and for other purposes directly connected with the
12    administration of this Code and the Illinois Public Aid
13    Code.
14        (q) To establish a diversion program.
15        The program shall provide a structured environment for
16    selected technical parole or mandatory supervised release
17    violators and committed persons who have violated the rules
18    governing their conduct while in work release. This program
19    shall not apply to those persons who have committed a new
20    offense while serving on parole or mandatory supervised
21    release or while committed to work release.
22        Elements of the program shall include, but shall not be
23    limited to, the following:
24            (1) The staff of a diversion facility shall provide
25        supervision in accordance with required objectives set
26        by the facility.

 

 

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1            (2) Participants shall be required to maintain
2        employment.
3            (3) Each participant shall pay for room and board
4        at the facility on a sliding-scale basis according to
5        the participant's income.
6            (4) Each participant shall:
7                (A) provide restitution to victims in
8            accordance with any court order;
9                (B) provide financial support to his
10            dependents; and
11                (C) make appropriate payments toward any other
12            court-ordered obligations.
13            (5) Each participant shall complete community
14        service in addition to employment.
15            (6) Participants shall take part in such
16        counseling, educational and other programs as the
17        Department may deem appropriate.
18            (7) Participants shall submit to drug and alcohol
19        screening.
20            (8) The Department shall promulgate rules
21        governing the administration of the program.
22        (r) To enter into intergovernmental cooperation
23    agreements under which persons in the custody of the
24    Department may participate in a county impact
25    incarceration program established under Section 3-6038 or
26    3-15003.5 of the Counties Code.

 

 

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1        (r-5) (Blank).
2        (r-10) To systematically and routinely identify with
3    respect to each streetgang active within the correctional
4    system: (1) each active gang; (2) every existing inter-gang
5    affiliation or alliance; and (3) the current leaders in
6    each gang. The Department shall promptly segregate leaders
7    from inmates who belong to their gangs and allied gangs.
8    "Segregate" means no physical contact and, to the extent
9    possible under the conditions and space available at the
10    correctional facility, prohibition of visual and sound
11    communication. For the purposes of this paragraph (r-10),
12    "leaders" means persons who:
13            (i) are members of a criminal streetgang;
14            (ii) with respect to other individuals within the
15        streetgang, occupy a position of organizer,
16        supervisor, or other position of management or
17        leadership; and
18            (iii) are actively and personally engaged in
19        directing, ordering, authorizing, or requesting
20        commission of criminal acts by others, which are
21        punishable as a felony, in furtherance of streetgang
22        related activity both within and outside of the
23        Department of Corrections.
24    "Streetgang", "gang", and "streetgang related" have the
25    meanings ascribed to them in Section 10 of the Illinois
26    Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.

 

 

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1        (s) To operate a super-maximum security institution,
2    in order to manage and supervise inmates who are disruptive
3    or dangerous and provide for the safety and security of the
4    staff and the other inmates.
5        (t) To monitor any unprivileged conversation or any
6    unprivileged communication, whether in person or by mail,
7    telephone, or other means, between an inmate who, before
8    commitment to the Department, was a member of an organized
9    gang and any other person without the need to show cause or
10    satisfy any other requirement of law before beginning the
11    monitoring, except as constitutionally required. The
12    monitoring may be by video, voice, or other method of
13    recording or by any other means. As used in this
14    subdivision (1)(t), "organized gang" has the meaning
15    ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
16    Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
17        As used in this subdivision (1)(t), "unprivileged
18    conversation" or "unprivileged communication" means a
19    conversation or communication that is not protected by any
20    privilege recognized by law or by decision, rule, or order
21    of the Illinois Supreme Court.
22        (u) To establish a Women's and Children's Pre-release
23    Community Supervision Program for the purpose of providing
24    housing and services to eligible female inmates, as
25    determined by the Department, and their newborn and young
26    children.

 

 

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1        (u-5) To issue an order, whenever a person committed to
2    the Department absconds or absents himself or herself,
3    without authority to do so, from any facility or program to
4    which he or she is assigned. The order shall be certified
5    by the Director, the Supervisor of the Apprehension Unit,
6    or any person duly designated by the Director, with the
7    seal of the Department affixed. The order shall be directed
8    to all sheriffs, coroners, and police officers, or to any
9    particular person named in the order. Any order issued
10    pursuant to this subdivision (1) (u-5) shall be sufficient
11    warrant for the officer or person named in the order to
12    arrest and deliver the committed person to the proper
13    correctional officials and shall be executed the same as
14    criminal process.
15        (v) To do all other acts necessary to carry out the
16    provisions of this Chapter.
17    (2) The Department of Corrections shall by January 1, 1998,
18consider building and operating a correctional facility within
19100 miles of a county of over 2,000,000 inhabitants, especially
20a facility designed to house juvenile participants in the
21impact incarceration program.
22    (3) When the Department lets bids for contracts for medical
23services to be provided to persons committed to Department
24facilities by a health maintenance organization, medical
25service corporation, or other health care provider, the bid may
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1irrevocable letter of credit or performance bond issued by a
2company whose bonds have an investment grade or higher rating
3by a bond rating organization.
4    (4) When the Department lets bids for contracts for food or
5commissary services to be provided to Department facilities,
6the bid may only be let to a food or commissary services
7provider that has obtained an irrevocable letter of credit or
8performance bond issued by a company whose bonds have an
9investment grade or higher rating by a bond rating
10organization.
11    (5) The Department of Corrections, by December 31 of each
12year, shall issue an annual report on persons committed to
13Department facilities for drug-related offenses. The report
14shall include the class of offense, age, race, ethnicity, and
15last known zip code of each person committed to a Department
16facility for a drug-related offense. The report shall be
17provided to each member of the General Assembly and shall be
18made available on the Department's website. For the purposes of
19this subsection (5), "drug" means "cannabis" as defined in
20subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Cannabis Control Act,
21"controlled substance" as defined in subsection (f) of Section
22102 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or
23"methamphetamine" as defined in Section 10 of the
24Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act.
25(Source: P.A. 96-1265, eff. 7-26-10; 97-697, eff. 6-22-12;
2697-800, eff. 7-13-12; 97-802, eff. 7-13-12; revised 7-23-12.)