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SENATE BILL 5287
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators Madsen, Hansen, Bauer, Rasmussen, Amondson, Metcalf and A. Smith.
Read first time January 28, 1991. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
AN ACT Relating to juvenile offenders; and adding new sections to chapter 13.16 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The counties are expressly authorized to implement and operate a boot camp program to provide an intensive educational and physical training and rehabilitative program for appropriate children.
(2) A child may be placed in a boot camp program if he is at least fourteen years of age but less than eighteen years of age at the time of adjudication and has been committed to the department as:
(a) A serious offender, as defined in RCW 13.40.020(1); or
(b) A minor or first offender, as defined in RCW 13.40.020(14).
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) Each county establishing a boot camp program shall screen children sent to the program, so that only those children who have medical and psychological profiles conducive to successfully completing an intensive work, educational, and disciplinary program may be admitted to the program. A participating county shall adopt rules for screening such admissions.
(2) The program shall include educational assignments, work assignments, and physical training exercises. Children shall be required to participate in educational, vocational, and substance abuse programs and to receive additional training in techniques of appropriate decision making, as well as in life skills and job skills.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. Each county establishing a boot camp program shall:
(1) Provide an aftercare component for monitoring and assisting the release of program participants into the community;
(2) Adopt rules for the program and aftercare which provide for at least six months of participation in the program and aftercare for successful completion and which also provide disciplinary sanctions and restrictions on the privileges of the general population of children in the program; and
(3) Keep records and monitor criminal activity, educational progress, and employment placement of program participants after their release from the program. An outcome evaluation study shall be published no later eighteen months after the program becomes operational, which includes a comparison of criminal activity, educational progress, and employment placements of children completing the program with the criminal activity, educational progress, and employment records of children completing other types of programs.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. A participating county may also contract with private organizations for the operation of the boot camp program and aftercare.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. (1) If a child in the boot camp program becomes unmanageable or medically or psychologically ineligible, the participating county shall remove the child from the program.
(2) A participating county shall either establish criteria for training contract staff or provide a special training program for county personnel selected for the boot camp program, which shall include appropriate methods of dealing with children who have been placed in such a stringent program.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 6. Sections 1 through 5 of this act are each added to chapter 13.16 RCW.