Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2078

Relating to corrections; expanding permissible claims for injury or death to
conditionally released inmates performing compensated community service work;
eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of corrections to annually
report to the legislature on the amount and use of training funds received;
authorizing the expenditure of funds to provide training services to juvenile
detention services subsidy program staff; authorizing deduction from inmate work
release accounts and other earnings for restitution to staff for property damage
or to other inmates for personal injury caused by inmate conduct; authorizing
the commissioner to contract with counties for placement of youth on
predispositional status and with the federal correctional system for the
placement of youth under federal jurisdiction in the state correctional facility
at Red Wing; expanding the authority of the commissioner to require inmate
participation in rehabilitative programs and authorizing the imposition of
disciplinary sanctions for refusing to participate; exempting the department of
corrections institution community work crew (ICWC) affordable housing program
from residential contractor licensing requirements; clarifying the application
of sentences of imprisonment to felonies only; requiring criminal justice
agencies to make presentence investigation records available to probation
officers or the commissioner at no cost; clarifying the admissions criteria for
the correctional facility at Red Wing; repealing the mutual agreement
rehabilitative program (mk)