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SF 1315

1st Engrossment - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 06/08/2021 01:32pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.
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A bill for an act
 relating to corrections; authorizing the placement of pregnant and postpartum
female inmates in community-based programs; requiring reports; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 244.065.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 244.065, is amended to read:


244.065 PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT OF INMATES OR SPECIALIZED
PROGRAMMING FOR PREGNANT INMATES OF STATE CORRECTIONAL
INSTITUTIONS IN COMMUNITY.

Subdivision 1.

Work.

When consistent with the public interest and the public safety,
the commissioner of corrections may conditionally release an inmate to work at paid
employment, seek employment, or participate in a vocational training or educational program,
as provided in section 241.26, if the inmate has served at least one half of the term of
imprisonment.

Subd. 2.

Pregnancy.

(a) In the furtherance of public interest and community safety, the
commissioner of corrections may conditionally release:

(1) for up to one year postpartum, an inmate who gave birth within eight months of the
date of commitment; and

(2) for the duration of the pregnancy and up to one year postpartum, an inmate who is
pregnant.

(b) The commissioner may conditionally release an inmate under paragraph (a) to
community-based programming for the purpose of participation in prenatal or postnatal
care programming and to promote mother-child bonding in addition to other programming
requirements as established by the commissioner, including evidence-based parenting skills
programming; working at paid employment; seeking employment; or participating in
vocational training, an educational program, or chemical dependency or mental health
treatment services.

(c) The commissioner shall develop policy and criteria to implement this subdivision
according to public safety and generally accepted correctional practice.

(d) By April 1 of each year, the commissioner shall report to the chairs and ranking
minority members of the house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction
over corrections on the number of inmates released and the duration of the release under
this subdivision for the prior calendar year.