| WV | HB5655 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a mandatory education program for incarcerated individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5654 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that GED training is offered to inmates on a timely basis and to ensure that it is meaningfully available at the time of parole or release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5636 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a state-wide work release program for all offenders to facilitate their successful transition back into society; and to require that every eligible offender incarcerated five years participate in work release,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5567 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to allowing medical or geriatric parole for certain inmates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5568 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to salary increases for state employees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5640 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board and shceduled meetings
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5531 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of correctional officers by 12 percent, when there is no explicit promotion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
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| WV | HB5538 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of bill is to modify parole eligibility for inmates serving life sentences and those who have been convicted of first degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
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| WV | HB5359 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to recognize the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers employed by the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; provide that such officers are not subject to certain certification requirements; authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
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| WV | HB5184 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require inmates to be housed based on their biological sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5071 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the state to reimburse a county for inmate costs when a conviction of an inmate results in credit for time served towards any sentence imposed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB4842 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Basic Affordable Supplies for Incarcerated West Virginians Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| WV | HB4790 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Division of Corrections to prepare a report on the feasibility of splitting the per diem costs for incarcerating inmates among the municipalities, counties, and the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
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| WV | HB4746 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require correctional facilities to assist juvenile and adult offenders to obtain a Social Security number and card, a birth certificate, and a driver's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
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| WV | HB4658 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that offenders of certain criminal offenses are not entitled to the deduction from a sentence of incarceration for good conduct. These offenses include an inmate sentenced to a life sentence, certain offenses re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | HB4671 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Work/Incarceration Prison pilot program; to establish guidelines for eligibility; creates one prison; authorizes the Division of Corrections to propose rules; provides sentence reduction to an offender sentence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | HB4539 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in all jails, regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4203 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize use of inmates to perform work in the upkeep of local cemeteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4278 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish private prisons in West Virginia. The bill permits the HOPE scholarship to apply to those inmates in private prison who seek to achieve their high school diploma or GED. The bill sets forth the terms of the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4188 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that any inmate found to have exhibited signs of abuse or patterns of addiction of drugs and alcohol to require counseling for the inmate for a minimum of 60 days upon being released on parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4261 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make all state inmates regardless of sex members of the state convict road force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4223 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that the Division of Corrections provide each probationer with physical copies of their birth certificate and Social Security Administration card upon release from a facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4240 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish and create comprehensive reentry services for offenders reentering communities to reduce recidivism rates by providing standard services; family-based substance abuse services; educational services; drug treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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| WV | HB4222 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create earned compliance credits for individuals on probation and parole for certain behaviors and actions to incentivize rehabilitation efforts. The bill authorizes supervising officers to recommend rescinding of credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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