HB6224 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB6224

Introduced 2/11/2010, by Rep. LaShawn K. Ford

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

730 ILCS 125/27 new

Amends the County Jail Act. Provides that in counties of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the sheriff or his or her designee may place inmates who are pre-trial detainees or who are serving a sentence for a misdemeanor offense in community-based programs that are alternatives to incarceration. Provides that the court may place pretrial detainees or sentence convicted offenders to the sheriff's community-based alternatives to incarceration in consultation with the sheriff based on available program space.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by adding Section 27 as follows:

(730 ILCS 125/27 new)

Sec. 27. Community-based alternatives to incarceration. In counties of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the sheriff or his or her designee may place inmates who are pre-trial detainees or who are serving a sentence for a misdemeanor offense in community-based programs that are alternatives to incarceration. The court may place pretrial detainees or sentence convicted offenders to the sheriff's community-based alternatives to incarceration in consultation with the sheriff based on available program space.