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COUNTIES (55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code. 55 ILCS 5/3-15002
(55 ILCS 5/3-15002) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15002)
Sec. 3-15002.
Creation.
In any county having more than 1,000,000
inhabitants, there is created within the office of the Sheriff a Department
of Corrections, referred to in this Division as the "Department".
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-895.)
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55 ILCS 5/3-15003
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-15003)
Sec. 3-15003.
Powers and duties.
Under the direction of the Sheriff
the Department shall have the powers and duties enumerated as follows:
(a) To operate and have jurisdiction over the county jail, municipal
houses of correction within the county and any other penal, corrections or
prisoner diagnostic center facility operated by either the county jail or
municipal houses of correction.
(b) To have charge of all prisoners held in any institution, center or
other facility in the county over which it has jurisdiction under
subsection (a) of this Section, whether they are misdemeanants, felons,
persons held for trial, persons held in protective custody, persons held
for transfer to other detention facilities or persons held for non-payment
of fines, for violations of ordinances or any other quasi-criminal charges.
Nothing in this Division applies to minors subject to proceedings under the
Juvenile Court Act of 1987. It may transfer or recommit any prisoner
from one institution, center or other such facility to any other
institution, center or other facility whenever it determines that such
transfer or recommitment would promote the welfare or rehabilitation of the
prisoner, or that such transfer or recommitment is necessary to relieve
overcrowding.
(c) To establish diagnostic, classification and rehabilitation services
and programs at the county jail and such other facilities over which it has
jurisdiction under subsection (a) of this Section as may be appropriate.
(d) To establish, whenever feasible, separate detention and commitment
facilities and utilize the facilities over which it has jurisdiction under
subsection (a) of this Section in a manner which provides separate
detention and commitment facilities.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/3-15003.3 (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.3) Sec. 3-15003.3. Voter registration; county jails. Upon discharge of a person who is eligible to vote from a county jail, the county jail shall provide the person with a voter registration application. Each election authority shall collaborate with the county jail within the jurisdiction of the election authority to facilitate voter registration for voters eligible to vote in that county who are confined or detained in the county jail. A county jail shall provide a voter registration application to any person in custody at the jail who requests an application and is eligible to vote.
(Source: P.A. 101-442, eff. 1-1-20 .) |
55 ILCS 5/3-15003.4 (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.4) Sec. 3-15003.4. Voting rights; county jails; probation offices. (a) Each county jail and county probation office shall make available current resource materials, maintained by the Illinois State Board of Elections, containing detailed information regarding the voting rights of a person with a criminal conviction in print. (b) The current resource materials described under subsection (a) shall be provided: (1) upon discharge of a person from a county jail; and (2) upon intake of a person by a county probation | |
(Source: P.A. 101-442, eff. 1-1-20 .)
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55 ILCS 5/3-15003.5
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.5)
Sec. 3-15003.5.
County impact incarceration
program.
(a) Under the direction of the Sheriff and with the
approval of the County Board of Commissioners, the Sheriff
in any county
with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, shall have the power to operate a
county impact
incarceration program for persons eligible for a term of imprisonment, but
sentenced to a county impact incarceration program by the sentencing court. In order to be eligible to participate in a county impact
incarceration program, a person convicted of a felony
shall
meet the requirements set forth in
subsection (b) of Section 5-8-1.2 of the Unified Code of
Corrections.
(b) (Blank).
(c) The Sheriff, with the approval of the County Board of
Commissioners,
shall have the power to enter into intergovernmental cooperation agreements
with the Illinois Department of Corrections under which persons in the custody
of the Illinois Department may participate in the county
impact
incarceration program. No person shall be eligible for participation who does
not meet the criteria set forth in subsection (b) of Section 5-8-1.1 of the
Unified Code of
Corrections.
Offenders committed to the Illinois Department of Corrections who
successfully complete the county impact incarceration
program shall have their sentence reduced to time considered served upon
certification to the Court by the Illinois Department of Corrections that the
offender has successfully completed the program.
(Source: P.A. 88-469; 89-587, eff. 7-31-96.)
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55 ILCS 5/3-15003.6
(55 ILCS 5/3-15003.6)
Sec. 3-15003.6. Pregnant female prisoners. (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this Section and Sections 3-15003.7, 3-15003.8, 3-15003.9, and 3-15003.10: (1) "Restraints" means any physical restraint or | | mechanical device used to control the movement of a prisoner's body or limbs, or both, including, but not limited to, flex cuffs, soft restraints, hard metal handcuffs, a black box, Chubb cuffs, leg irons, belly chains, a security (tether) chain, or a convex shield, or shackles of any kind.
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| (2) "Labor" means the period of time before a birth
| | and shall include any medical condition in which a woman is sent or brought to the hospital for the purpose of delivering her baby. These situations include: induction of labor, prodromal labor, pre-term labor, prelabor rupture of membranes, the 3 stages of active labor, uterine hemorrhage during the third trimester of pregnancy, and caesarian delivery including pre-operative preparation.
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| (3) "Post-partum" means, as determined by her
| | physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant, the period immediately following delivery, including the entire period a woman is in the hospital or infirmary after birth.
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| (4) "Correctional institution" means any entity under
| | the authority of a county law enforcement division of a county of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants that has the power to detain or restrain, or both, a person under the laws of the State.
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| (5) "Corrections official" means the official that is
| | responsible for oversight of a correctional institution, or his or her designee.
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| (6) "Prisoner" means any person incarcerated or
| | detained in any facility who is accused of, convicted of, sentenced for, or adjudicated delinquent for, violations of criminal law or the terms and conditions of parole, probation, pretrial release, or diversionary program, and any person detained under the immigration laws of the United States at any correctional facility.
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| (7) "Extraordinary circumstance" means an
| | extraordinary medical or security circumstance, including a substantial flight risk, that dictates restraints be used to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, the staff of the correctional institution or medical facility, other prisoners, or the public.
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| (b) A county department of corrections shall not apply security restraints to a prisoner that has been determined by a qualified medical professional to be pregnant and is known by the county department of corrections to be pregnant or in postpartum recovery, which is the entire period a woman is in the medical facility after birth, unless the corrections official makes an individualized determination that the prisoner presents a substantial flight risk or some other extraordinary circumstance that dictates security restraints be used to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, her child or unborn child, the staff of the county department of corrections or medical facility, other prisoners, or the public. The protections set out in clauses (b)(3) and (b)(4) of this Section shall apply to security restraints used pursuant to this subsection. The corrections official shall immediately remove all restraints upon the written or oral request of medical personnel. Oral requests made by medical personnel shall be verified in writing as promptly as reasonably possible.
(1) Qualified authorized health staff shall have
| | the authority to order therapeutic restraints for a pregnant or postpartum prisoner who is a danger to herself, her child, unborn child, or other persons due to a psychiatric or medical disorder. Therapeutic restraints may only be initiated, monitored and discontinued by qualified and authorized health staff and used to safely limit a prisoner's mobility for psychiatric or medical reasons. No order for therapeutic restraints shall be written unless medical or mental health personnel, after personally observing and examining the prisoner, are clinically satisfied that the use of therapeutic restraints is justified and permitted in accordance with hospital policies and applicable State law. Metal handcuffs or shackles are not considered therapeutic restraints.
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| (2) Whenever therapeutic restraints are used by
| | medical personnel, Section 2-108 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code shall apply.
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| (3) Leg irons, shackles or waist shackles shall not
| | be used on any pregnant or postpartum prisoner regardless of security classification. Except for therapeutic restraints under clause (b)(2), no restraints of any kind may be applied to prisoners during labor.
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| (4) When a pregnant or postpartum prisoner must be
| | restrained, restraints used shall be the least restrictive restraints possible to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, her child, unborn child, the staff of the county department of corrections or medical facility, other prisoners, or the public, and in no case shall include leg irons, shackles or waist shackles.
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| (5) Upon the pregnant prisoner's entry into a
| | hospital room, and completion of initial room inspection, a corrections official shall be posted immediately outside the hospital room, unless requested to be in the room by medical personnel attending to the prisoner's medical needs.
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| (6) The county department of corrections shall
| | provide adequate corrections personnel to monitor the pregnant prisoner during her transport to and from the hospital and during her stay at the hospital.
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| (7) Where the county department of corrections
| | requires prisoner safety assessments, a corrections official may enter the hospital room to conduct periodic prisoner safety assessments, except during a medical examination or the delivery process.
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| (8) Upon discharge from a medical facility,
| | postpartum prisoners shall be restrained only with handcuffs in front of the body during transport to the county department of corrections. A corrections official shall immediately remove all security restraints upon written or oral request by medical personnel. Oral requests made by medical personnel shall be verified in writing as promptly as reasonably possible.
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| (c) Enforcement.
No later than 30 days before the end of each fiscal year, the county sheriff or corrections official of the correctional institution where a pregnant prisoner has been restrained during that previous fiscal year, shall submit a written report to the Illinois General Assembly and the Office of the Governor that includes an account of every instance of prisoner restraint pursuant to this Section. The written report shall state the date, time, location and rationale for each instance in which restraints are used. The written report shall not contain any individually identifying information of any prisoner. Such reports shall be made available for public inspection.
(Source: P.A. 100-513, eff. 1-1-18; 101-652, eff. 7-1-21 .)
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55 ILCS 5/3-15003.7 (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.7) Sec. 3-15003.7. Corrections official training related to pregnant prisoners. (a) A county department of corrections shall provide training relating to medical and mental health care issues applicable to pregnant prisoners to: (1) each corrections official employed by a county | | department at a correctional institution in which female prisoners are confined; and
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| (2) any other county department of corrections
| | employee whose duties involve contact with pregnant prisoners.
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| (b) The training must include information regarding:
(1) appropriate care for pregnant prisoners; and
(2) the impact on a pregnant prisoner and the
| | prisoner's unborn child of:
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| (A) the use of restraints;
(B) placement in administrative segregation; and
(C) invasive searches.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21 .)
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55 ILCS 5/3-15003.8 (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.8) Sec. 3-15003.8. Educational programming for pregnant prisoners. The Illinois Department of Public Health shall provide the county department of corrections with educational programming relating to pregnancy and parenting and the county department of corrections shall provide the programming to pregnant prisoners. The programming must include instruction regarding: (1) appropriate prenatal care and hygiene; (2) the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol and | | drugs on a developing fetus;
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| (3) parenting skills; and
(4) medical and mental health issues applicable to
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(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21; 102-28, eff. 6-25-21.)
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