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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5234
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/16/95.
Modifying
eligibility for juvenile offender basic training camp option.
AN ACT Relating to
eligibility for juvenile offender basic training camp; and amending RCW
13.40.320.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 13.40.320 and 1994
sp.s. c 7 s 532 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department of
social and health services shall establish and operate a medium security
juvenile offender basic training camp program. The department shall site a
juvenile offender basic training camp facility in the most cost-effective
facility possible and shall review the possibility of using an existing
abandoned and/or available state, federally, or military-owned site or
facility.
(2) The department may
contract under this chapter with private companies, the national guard, or
other federal, state, or local agencies to operate the juvenile offender basic
training camp, notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 41.06.380. Requests for
proposals from possible contractors shall not call for payment on a per diem
basis.
(3) The juvenile
offender basic training camp shall accommodate at least seventy offenders. The
beds shall count as additions to, and not be used as replacements for, existing
bed capacity at existing department of social and health services juvenile
facilities.
(4) The juvenile
offender basic training camp shall be a structured and regimented model lasting
one hundred twenty days emphasizing the building up of an offender's
self-esteem, confidence, and discipline. The juvenile offender basic training
camp program shall provide participants with basic education, prevocational
training, work-based learning, live work, work ethic skills, conflict
resolution counseling, substance abuse intervention, anger management
counseling, and structured intensive physical training. The juvenile offender
basic training camp program shall have a curriculum training and work schedule
that incorporates a balanced assignment of these or other rehabilitation and
training components for no less than sixteen hours per day, six days a week.
The department shall
adopt rules for the safe and effective operation of the juvenile offender basic
training camp program, standards for an offender's successful program
completion, and rules for the continued after-care supervision of offenders who
have successfully completed the program.
(5) Offenders eligible
for the juvenile offender basic training camp option shall be those with a
disposition of ((at least fifty-two weeks but)) not more than
seventy-eight weeks. Violent and sex offenders shall not be eligible for the
juvenile offender basic training camp program.
(6) If the court
determines that the offender is eligible for the juvenile offender basic
training camp option, the court may recommend that the department place the
offender in the program. The department shall evaluate the offender and may
place the offender in the program. The evaluation shall include, at a
minimum, a risk assessment developed by the department and designed to
determine the offender's suitability for the program. No juvenile who is
assessed as a high risk offender or suffers from any mental or physical
problems that could endanger his or her health or drastically affect his or her
performance in the program shall be admitted to or retained in the juvenile
offender basic training camp program.
(7) All juvenile
offenders eligible for the juvenile offender basic training camp sentencing
option shall spend ((the first)) one hundred twenty days of their
disposition in a juvenile offender basic training camp. If the juvenile
offender's activities while in the juvenile offender basic training camp are so
disruptive to the juvenile offender basic training camp program, as determined
by the secretary according to rules adopted by the department, as to result in
the removal of the juvenile offender from the juvenile offender basic training
camp program, or if the offender cannot complete the juvenile offender basic
training camp program due to medical problems, the secretary shall require that
the offender be committed to a juvenile institution to serve the entire
remainder of his or her disposition, less the amount of time already served in the
juvenile offender basic training camp program.
(8) All offenders who
successfully graduate from the one hundred twenty day juvenile offender basic
training camp program shall spend the remainder of their disposition on parole
in a division of juvenile rehabilitation intensive aftercare program in the
local community. The program shall provide for the needs of the offender based
on his or her progress in the aftercare program as indicated by ongoing
assessment of those needs and progress. The intensive aftercare program shall
monitor postprogram juvenile offenders and assist them to successfully
reintegrate into the community. In addition, the program shall develop a
process for closely monitoring and assessing public safety risks. The
intensive aftercare program shall be designed and funded by the department of
social and health services.
(9) The department
shall also develop and maintain a data base to measure recidivism rates
specific to this incarceration program. The data base shall maintain data on
all juvenile offenders who complete the juvenile offender basic training camp
program for a period of two years after they have completed the program. The
data base shall also maintain data on the criminal activity, educational
progress, and employment activities of all juvenile offenders who participated
in the program. The department shall produce an outcome evaluation report on
the progress of the juvenile offender basic training camp program to the
appropriate committees of the legislature no later than December 12, 1996.
