Bill Text: IL HB3712 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall provide educational and visitation opportunities to committed persons within its institutions through temporary access to content-controlled tablets that may be provided as a privilege to committed persons to induce or reward compliance. Defines "content-controlled tablet" as any device that can only access visitation applications or content relating to educational or personal development.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-18 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0198 [HB3712 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB3712-Chaptered.html



Public Act 100-0198
HB3712 EnrolledLRB100 10864 RLC 21099 b
AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Sections 3-1-2 and 3-2-2 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/3-1-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-1-2)
Sec. 3-1-2. Definitions.
(a) "Chief Administrative Officer" means the person
designated by the Director to exercise the powers and duties of
the Department of Corrections in regard to committed persons
within a correctional institution or facility, and includes the
superintendent of any juvenile institution or facility.
(a-3) "Aftercare release" means the conditional and
revocable release of a person committed to the Department of
Juvenile Justice under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, under
the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
(a-5) "Sex offense" for the purposes of paragraph (16) of
subsection (a) of Section 3-3-7, paragraph (10) of subsection
(a) of Section 5-6-3, and paragraph (18) of subsection (c) of
Section 5-6-3.1 only means:
(i) A violation of any of the following Sections of the
Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012: 10-7
(aiding or abetting child abduction under Section
10-5(b)(10)), 10-5(b)(10) (child luring), 11-6 (indecent
solicitation of a child), 11-6.5 (indecent solicitation of
an adult), 11-14.4 (promoting juvenile prostitution),
11-15.1 (soliciting for a juvenile prostitute), 11-17.1
(keeping a place of juvenile prostitution), 11-18.1
(patronizing a juvenile prostitute), 11-19.1 (juvenile
pimping), 11-19.2 (exploitation of a child), 11-20.1
(child pornography), 11-20.1B or 11-20.3 (aggravated child
pornography), 11-1.40 or 12-14.1 (predatory criminal
sexual assault of a child), or 12-33 (ritualized abuse of a
child). An attempt to commit any of these offenses.
(ii) A violation of any of the following Sections of
the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012:
11-1.20 or 12-13 (criminal sexual assault), 11-1.30 or
12-14 (aggravated criminal sexual assault), 11-1.60 or
12-16 (aggravated criminal sexual abuse), and subsection
(a) of Section 11-1.50 or subsection (a) of Section 12-15
(criminal sexual abuse). An attempt to commit any of these
offenses.
(iii) A violation of any of the following Sections of
the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012 when
the defendant is not a parent of the victim:
10-1 (kidnapping),
10-2 (aggravated kidnapping),
10-3 (unlawful restraint),
10-3.1 (aggravated unlawful restraint).
An attempt to commit any of these offenses.
(iv) A violation of any former law of this State
substantially equivalent to any offense listed in this
subsection (a-5).
An offense violating federal law or the law of another
state that is substantially equivalent to any offense listed in
this subsection (a-5) shall constitute a sex offense for the
purpose of this subsection (a-5). A finding or adjudication as
a sexually dangerous person under any federal law or law of
another state that is substantially equivalent to the Sexually
Dangerous Persons Act shall constitute an adjudication for a
sex offense for the purposes of this subsection (a-5).
(b) "Commitment" means a judicially determined placement
in the custody of the Department of Corrections on the basis of
delinquency or conviction.
(c) "Committed person" is a person committed to the
Department, however a committed person shall not be considered
to be an employee of the Department of Corrections for any
purpose, including eligibility for a pension, benefits, or any
other compensation or rights or privileges which may be
provided to employees of the Department.
(c-5) "Computer scrub software" means any third-party
added software, designed to delete information from the
computer unit, the hard drive, or other software, which would
eliminate and prevent discovery of browser activity, including
but not limited to Internet history, address bar or bars, cache
or caches, and/or cookies, and which would over-write files in
a way so as to make previous computer activity, including but
not limited to website access, more difficult to discover.
(c-10) "Content-controlled tablet" means any device that
can only access visitation applications or content relating to
educational or personal development.
(d) "Correctional institution or facility" means any
building or part of a building where committed persons are kept
in a secured manner.
(e) "Department" means both the Department of Corrections
and the Department of Juvenile Justice of this State, unless
the context is specific to either the Department of Corrections
or the Department of Juvenile Justice.
(f) "Director" means both the Director of Corrections and
the Director of Juvenile Justice, unless the context is
specific to either the Director of Corrections or the Director
of Juvenile Justice.
(f-5) (Blank).
(g) "Discharge" means the final termination of a commitment
to the Department of Corrections.
(h) "Discipline" means the rules and regulations for the
maintenance of order and the protection of persons and property
within the institutions and facilities of the Department and
their enforcement.
(i) "Escape" means the intentional and unauthorized
absence of a committed person from the custody of the
Department.
(j) "Furlough" means an authorized leave of absence from
the Department of Corrections for a designated purpose and
period of time.
(k) "Parole" means the conditional and revocable release of
a person committed to the Department of Corrections under the
supervision of a parole officer.
(l) "Prisoner Review Board" means the Board established in
Section 3-3-1(a), independent of the Department, to review
rules and regulations with respect to good time credits, to
hear charges brought by the Department against certain
prisoners alleged to have violated Department rules with
respect to good time credits, to set release dates for certain
prisoners sentenced under the law in effect prior to the
effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1977, to hear and
decide the time of aftercare release for persons committed to
the Department of Juvenile Justice under the Juvenile Court Act
of 1987 to hear requests and make recommendations to the
Governor with respect to pardon, reprieve or commutation, to
set conditions for parole, aftercare release, and mandatory
supervised release and determine whether violations of those
conditions justify revocation of parole or release, and to
assume all other functions previously exercised by the Illinois
Parole and Pardon Board.
(m) Whenever medical treatment, service, counseling, or
care is referred to in this Unified Code of Corrections, such
term may be construed by the Department or Court, within its
discretion, to include treatment, service or counseling by a
Christian Science practitioner or nursing care appropriate
therewith whenever request therefor is made by a person subject
to the provisions of this Act.
(n) "Victim" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Bill of Rights for Victims
and Witnesses of Violent Crime Act.
(o) "Wrongfully imprisoned person" means a person who has
been discharged from a prison of this State and has received:
(1) a pardon from the Governor stating that such pardon
is issued on the ground of innocence of the crime for which
he or she was imprisoned; or
(2) a certificate of innocence from the Circuit Court
as provided in Section 2-702 of the Code of Civil
Procedure.
(Source: P.A. 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13; 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13;
98-558, eff. 1-1-14; 98-685, eff. 1-1-15.)
(730 ILCS 5/3-2-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2)
Sec. 3-2-2. Powers and Duties of the Department.
(1) In addition to the powers, duties and responsibilities
which are otherwise provided by law, the Department shall have
the following powers:
(a) To accept persons committed to it by the courts of
this State for care, custody, treatment and
rehabilitation, and to accept federal prisoners and aliens
over whom the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee is
authorized to exercise the federal detention function for
limited purposes and periods of time.
(b) To develop and maintain reception and evaluation
units for purposes of analyzing the custody and
rehabilitation needs of persons committed to it and to
assign such persons to institutions and programs under its
control or transfer them to other appropriate agencies. In
consultation with the Department of Alcoholism and
Substance Abuse (now the Department of Human Services), the
Department of Corrections shall develop a master plan for
the screening and evaluation of persons committed to its
custody who have alcohol or drug abuse problems, and for
making appropriate treatment available to such persons;
the Department shall report to the General Assembly on such
plan not later than April 1, 1987. The maintenance and
implementation of such plan shall be contingent upon the
availability of funds.
(b-1) To create and implement, on January 1, 2002, a
pilot program to establish the effectiveness of
pupillometer technology (the measurement of the pupil's
reaction to light) as an alternative to a urine test for
purposes of screening and evaluating persons committed to
its custody who have alcohol or drug problems. The pilot
program shall require the pupillometer technology to be
used in at least one Department of Corrections facility.
The Director may expand the pilot program to include an
additional facility or facilities as he or she deems
appropriate. A minimum of 4,000 tests shall be included in
the pilot program. The Department must report to the
General Assembly on the effectiveness of the program by
January 1, 2003.
(b-5) To develop, in consultation with the Department
of State Police, a program for tracking and evaluating each
inmate from commitment through release for recording his or
her gang affiliations, activities, or ranks.
(c) To maintain and administer all State correctional
institutions and facilities under its control and to
establish new ones as needed. Pursuant to its power to
establish new institutions and facilities, the Department
may, with the written approval of the Governor, authorize
the Department of Central Management Services to enter into
an agreement of the type described in subsection (d) of
Section 405-300 of the Department of Central Management
Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-300). The Department shall
designate those institutions which shall constitute the
State Penitentiary System.
Pursuant to its power to establish new institutions and
facilities, the Department may authorize the Department of
Central Management Services to accept bids from counties
and municipalities for the construction, remodeling or
conversion of a structure to be leased to the Department of
Corrections for the purposes of its serving as a
correctional institution or facility. Such construction,
remodeling or conversion may be financed with revenue bonds
issued pursuant to the Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act
by the municipality or county. The lease specified in a bid
shall be for a term of not less than the time needed to
retire any revenue bonds used to finance the project, but
not to exceed 40 years. The lease may grant to the State
the option to purchase the structure outright.
Upon receipt of the bids, the Department may certify
one or more of the bids and shall submit any such bids to
the General Assembly for approval. Upon approval of a bid
by a constitutional majority of both houses of the General
Assembly, pursuant to joint resolution, the Department of
Central Management Services may enter into an agreement
with the county or municipality pursuant to such bid.
(c-5) To build and maintain regional juvenile
detention centers and to charge a per diem to the counties
as established by the Department to defray the costs of
housing each minor in a center. In this subsection (c-5),
"juvenile detention center" means a facility to house
minors during pendency of trial who have been transferred
from proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to
prosecutions under the criminal laws of this State in
accordance with Section 5-805 of the Juvenile Court Act of
1987, whether the transfer was by operation of law or
permissive under that Section. The Department shall
designate the counties to be served by each regional
juvenile detention center.
(d) To develop and maintain programs of control,
rehabilitation and employment of committed persons within
its institutions.
(d-5) To provide a pre-release job preparation program
for inmates at Illinois adult correctional centers.
(d-10) To provide educational and visitation
opportunities to committed persons within its institutions
through temporary access to content-controlled tablets
that may be provided as a privilege to committed persons to
induce or reward compliance.
(e) To establish a system of supervision and guidance
of committed persons in the community.
(f) To establish in cooperation with the Department of
Transportation to supply a sufficient number of prisoners
for use by the Department of Transportation to clean up the
trash and garbage along State, county, township, or
municipal highways as designated by the Department of
Transportation. The Department of Corrections, at the
request of the Department of Transportation, shall furnish
such prisoners at least annually for a period to be agreed
upon between the Director of Corrections and the Director
of Transportation. The prisoners used on this program shall
be selected by the Director of Corrections on whatever
basis he deems proper in consideration of their term,
behavior and earned eligibility to participate in such
program - where they will be outside of the prison facility
but still in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
Prisoners convicted of first degree murder, or a Class X
felony, or armed violence, or aggravated kidnapping, or
criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse
or a subsequent conviction for criminal sexual abuse, or
forcible detention, or arson, or a prisoner adjudged a
Habitual Criminal shall not be eligible for selection to
participate in such program. The prisoners shall remain as
prisoners in the custody of the Department of Corrections
and such Department shall furnish whatever security is
necessary. The Department of Transportation shall furnish
trucks and equipment for the highway cleanup program and
personnel to supervise and direct the program. Neither the
Department of Corrections nor the Department of
Transportation shall replace any regular employee with a
prisoner.
(g) To maintain records of persons committed to it and
to establish programs of research, statistics and
planning.
(h) To investigate the grievances of any person
committed to the Department, to inquire into any alleged
misconduct by employees or committed persons, and to
investigate the assets of committed persons to implement
Section 3-7-6 of this Code; and for these purposes it may
issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and
the production of writings and papers, and may examine
under oath any witnesses who may appear before it; to also
investigate alleged violations of a parolee's or
releasee's conditions of parole or release; and for this
purpose it may issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of
witnesses and the production of documents only if there is
reason to believe that such procedures would provide
evidence that such violations have occurred.
If any person fails to obey a subpoena issued under
this subsection, the Director may apply to any circuit
court to secure compliance with the subpoena. The failure
to comply with the order of the court issued in response
thereto shall be punishable as contempt of court.
(i) To appoint and remove the chief administrative
officers, and administer programs of training and
development of personnel of the Department. Personnel
assigned by the Department to be responsible for the
custody and control of committed persons or to investigate
the alleged misconduct of committed persons or employees or
alleged violations of a parolee's or releasee's conditions
of parole shall be conservators of the peace for those
purposes, and shall have the full power of peace officers
outside of the facilities of the Department in the
protection, arrest, retaking and reconfining of committed
persons or where the exercise of such power is necessary to
the investigation of such misconduct or violations. This
subsection shall not apply to persons committed to the
Department of Juvenile Justice under the Juvenile Court Act
of 1987 on aftercare release.
(j) To cooperate with other departments and agencies
and with local communities for the development of standards
and programs for better correctional services in this
State.
(k) To administer all moneys and properties of the
Department.
(l) To report annually to the Governor on the committed
persons, institutions and programs of the Department.
(l-5) (Blank).
(m) To make all rules and regulations and exercise all
powers and duties vested by law in the Department.
(n) To establish rules and regulations for
administering a system of sentence credits, established in
accordance with Section 3-6-3, subject to review by the
Prisoner Review Board.
(o) To administer the distribution of funds from the
State Treasury to reimburse counties where State penal
institutions are located for the payment of assistant
state's attorneys' salaries under Section 4-2001 of the
Counties Code.
(p) To exchange information with the Department of
Human Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services for the purpose of verifying living arrangements
and for other purposes directly connected with the
administration of this Code and the Illinois Public Aid
Code.
(q) To establish a diversion program.
The program shall provide a structured environment for
selected technical parole or mandatory supervised release
violators and committed persons who have violated the rules
governing their conduct while in work release. This program
shall not apply to those persons who have committed a new
offense while serving on parole or mandatory supervised
release or while committed to work release.
Elements of the program shall include, but shall not be
limited to, the following:
(1) The staff of a diversion facility shall provide
supervision in accordance with required objectives set
by the facility.
(2) Participants shall be required to maintain
employment.
(3) Each participant shall pay for room and board
at the facility on a sliding-scale basis according to
the participant's income.
(4) Each participant shall:
(A) provide restitution to victims in
accordance with any court order;
(B) provide financial support to his
dependents; and
(C) make appropriate payments toward any other
court-ordered obligations.
(5) Each participant shall complete community
service in addition to employment.
(6) Participants shall take part in such
counseling, educational and other programs as the
Department may deem appropriate.
(7) Participants shall submit to drug and alcohol
screening.
(8) The Department shall promulgate rules
governing the administration of the program.
(r) To enter into intergovernmental cooperation
agreements under which persons in the custody of the
Department may participate in a county impact
incarceration program established under Section 3-6038 or
3-15003.5 of the Counties Code.
(r-5) (Blank).
(r-10) To systematically and routinely identify with
respect to each streetgang active within the correctional
system: (1) each active gang; (2) every existing inter-gang
affiliation or alliance; and (3) the current leaders in
each gang. The Department shall promptly segregate leaders
from inmates who belong to their gangs and allied gangs.
"Segregate" means no physical contact and, to the extent
possible under the conditions and space available at the
correctional facility, prohibition of visual and sound
communication. For the purposes of this paragraph (r-10),
"leaders" means persons who:
(i) are members of a criminal streetgang;
(ii) with respect to other individuals within the
streetgang, occupy a position of organizer,
supervisor, or other position of management or
leadership; and
(iii) are actively and personally engaged in
directing, ordering, authorizing, or requesting
commission of criminal acts by others, which are
punishable as a felony, in furtherance of streetgang
related activity both within and outside of the
Department of Corrections.
"Streetgang", "gang", and "streetgang related" have the
meanings ascribed to them in Section 10 of the Illinois
Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
(s) To operate a super-maximum security institution,
in order to manage and supervise inmates who are disruptive
or dangerous and provide for the safety and security of the
staff and the other inmates.
(t) To monitor any unprivileged conversation or any
unprivileged communication, whether in person or by mail,
telephone, or other means, between an inmate who, before
commitment to the Department, was a member of an organized
gang and any other person without the need to show cause or
satisfy any other requirement of law before beginning the
monitoring, except as constitutionally required. The
monitoring may be by video, voice, or other method of
recording or by any other means. As used in this
subdivision (1)(t), "organized gang" has the meaning
ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
As used in this subdivision (1)(t), "unprivileged
conversation" or "unprivileged communication" means a
conversation or communication that is not protected by any
privilege recognized by law or by decision, rule, or order
of the Illinois Supreme Court.
(u) To establish a Women's and Children's Pre-release
Community Supervision Program for the purpose of providing
housing and services to eligible female inmates, as
determined by the Department, and their newborn and young
children.
(u-5) To issue an order, whenever a person committed to
the Department absconds or absents himself or herself,
without authority to do so, from any facility or program to
which he or she is assigned. The order shall be certified
by the Director, the Supervisor of the Apprehension Unit,
or any person duly designated by the Director, with the
seal of the Department affixed. The order shall be directed
to all sheriffs, coroners, and police officers, or to any
particular person named in the order. Any order issued
pursuant to this subdivision (1) (u-5) shall be sufficient
warrant for the officer or person named in the order to
arrest and deliver the committed person to the proper
correctional officials and shall be executed the same as
criminal process.
(v) To do all other acts necessary to carry out the
provisions of this Chapter.
(2) The Department of Corrections shall by January 1, 1998,
consider building and operating a correctional facility within
100 miles of a county of over 2,000,000 inhabitants, especially
a facility designed to house juvenile participants in the
impact incarceration program.
(3) When the Department lets bids for contracts for medical
services to be provided to persons committed to Department
facilities by a health maintenance organization, medical
service corporation, or other health care provider, the bid may
only be let to a health care provider that has obtained an
irrevocable letter of credit or performance bond issued by a
company whose bonds have an investment grade or higher rating
by a bond rating organization.
(4) When the Department lets bids for contracts for food or
commissary services to be provided to Department facilities,
the bid may only be let to a food or commissary services
provider that has obtained an irrevocable letter of credit or
performance bond issued by a company whose bonds have an
investment grade or higher rating by a bond rating
organization.
(5) On and after the date 6 months after August 16, 2013
(the effective date of Public Act 98-488), as provided in the
Executive Order 1 (2012) Implementation Act, all of the powers,
duties, rights, and responsibilities related to State
healthcare purchasing under this Code that were transferred
from the Department of Corrections to the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services by Executive Order 3 (2005) are
transferred back to the Department of Corrections; however,
powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities related to State
healthcare purchasing under this Code that were exercised by
the Department of Corrections before the effective date of
Executive Order 3 (2005) but that pertain to individuals
resident in facilities operated by the Department of Juvenile
Justice are transferred to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
(Source: P.A. 97-697, eff. 6-22-12; 97-800, eff. 7-13-12;
97-802, eff. 7-13-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-488, eff.
8-16-13; 98-558, eff. 1-1-14; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)
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