Bill Text: MI SB0022 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Corrections; prisoners; department to provide rehabilitation programming for 18-to 22-year-old inmates that specifically takes the prisoners' age into consideration and to report certain information; require. Amends 1953 PA 232 (MCL 791.201 - 791.285) by adding sec. 62d.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-04-18 - Assigned Pa 0016'17 With Immediate Effect [SB0022 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0022-Chaptered.html
Act No. 16
Public Acts of 2017
Approved by the Governor
March 30, 2017
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 31, 2017
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 29, 2017
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
Introduced by Senator Johnson
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 22
AN ACT to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, commutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps, to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the supervision and inspection of local jails and houses of correction; to provide for the siting of correctional facilities; to create a state department of corrections, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said department of powers and duties vested by law in certain other state boards, commissions, and officers, and to abolish certain boards, commissions, and offices the powers and duties of which are transferred by this act; to allow for the operation of certain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to provide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to provide for a lifetime electronic monitoring program; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to make certain appropriations; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act,” (MCL 791.201 to 791.285) by adding section 62d.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 62d. (1) The department shall develop rehabilitation plans for prisoners in the custody of the department who are approximately 18 to 22 years of age that specifically take the prisoner’s age into consideration.
(2) The department shall provide, to the extent it is able to do so, programming designed for youth rehabilitation for prisoners in the custody of the department who are approximately 18 to 22 years of age. The department shall consult with the administrators of the family divisions of the circuit courts in this state and seek recommendations regarding the selection of programming designed for youth rehabilitation.
(3) The programming under subsection (2) may include, but not be limited to, both of the following:
(a) Mentoring programs provided by individuals with no misdemeanor or felony convictions.
(b) Career skills evaluation and career counseling.
(4) The department shall submit an annual report to the senate and house committees responsible for legislation concerning corrections issues detailing all of the following regarding prisoners in the custody of the department who are approximately 18 to 22 years of age:
(a) The number of these prisoners who are in the custody of the department, and the security classification at which each of these prisoners is housed.
(b) The number of these prisoners housed at each correctional facility in this state.
(c) The number, if any, of these prisoners who have been moved from 1 correctional facility to another in a manner that interrupted the prisoner’s programming.
(d) The number of these prisoners who have completed programming, and if so, what specific programming was completed by the prisoners.
(5) As used in this section, “correctional facility” means a facility operated by the department, or by a private entity under contract with the department, that houses prisoners under the jurisdiction of the department.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
