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91_HB0992
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1 AN ACT to amend the Unified Code of Corrections.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5 changing Section 3-1-2 as follows:
6 (730 ILCS 5/3-1-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-1-2)
7 Sec. 3-1-2. Definitions. (a) "Chief Administrative
8 Officer" means the person designated by the Director to
9 exercise the powers and duties of the Department of
10 Corrections in regard to committed persons within a
11 correctional institution or facility, and includes the
12 superintendent of a any juvenile institution or facility.
13 (b) "Commitment" means a judicially determined placement
14 in the custody of the Department of Corrections on the basis
15 of delinquency or conviction.
16 (c) "Committed Person" is a person committed to the
17 Department, however a committed person shall not be
18 considered to be an employee of the Department of Corrections
19 for any purpose, including eligibility for a pension,
20 benefits, or any other compensation or rights or privileges
21 which may be provided to employees of the Department.
22 (d) "Correctional Institution or Facility" means any
23 building or part of a building where committed persons are
24 kept in a secured manner.
25 (e) "Department" means the Department of Corrections of
26 this State.
27 (f) "Director" means the Director of the Department of
28 Corrections.
29 (g) "Discharge" means the final termination of a
30 commitment to the Department of Corrections.
31 (h) "Discipline" means the rules and regulations for the
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1 maintenance of order and the protection of persons and
2 property within the institutions and facilities of the
3 Department and their enforcement.
4 (i) "Escape" means the intentional and unauthorized
5 absence of a committed person from the custody of the
6 Department.
7 (j) "Furlough" means an authorized leave of absence from
8 the Department of Corrections for a designated purpose and
9 period of time.
10 (k) "Parole" means the conditional and revocable release
11 of a committed person under the supervision of a parole
12 officer.
13 (l) "Prisoner Review Board" means the Board established
14 in Section 3-3-1(a), independent of the Department, to review
15 rules and regulations with respect to good time credits, to
16 hear charges brought by the Department against certain
17 prisoners alleged to have violated Department rules with
18 respect to good time credits, to set release dates for
19 certain prisoners sentenced under the law in effect prior to
20 the effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1977, to hear
21 requests and make recommendations to the Governor with
22 respect to pardon, reprieve or commutation, to set conditions
23 for parole and mandatory supervised release and determine
24 whether violations of those conditions justify revocation of
25 parole or release, and to assume all other functions
26 previously exercised by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board.
27 (m) Whenever medical treatment, service, counseling, or
28 care is referred to in this Unified Code of Corrections, such
29 term may be construed by the Department or Court, within its
30 discretion, to include treatment, service or counseling by a
31 Christian Science practitioner or nursing care appropriate
32 therewith whenever request therefor is made by a person
33 subject to the provisions of this Act.
34 (n) "Victim" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
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1 subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Bill of Rights for Victims
2 and Witnesses of Violent Crime Act.
3 (Source: P.A. 83-1433; 83-1499.)