SB 5451-S2.E - DIGEST

(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 4/14/93)

     Provides a comprehensive strategy for reducing upwardly spiraling prison costs through an inmate work responsibility program, preserving scarce prison cell space for our most dangerous offenders, and providing judges with alternatives to incarceration, including drug rehabilitation, that can be used without jeopardizing public safety.

     Directs the department of corrections and the department of general administration to adopt rules ensuring the preferential purchase of goods and services produced by class II correctional industries.

     Directs the secretary of corrections to report any impediments to the inmate work participation program, and make recommendations to remove any impediments by January 1, 1994.