1997 Minnesota Statutes

     401.01 Purpose and definition; assistance grants. 

    Subdivision 1.  For the purpose of more effectively 
 protecting society and to promote efficiency and economy in the 
 delivery of correctional services, the commissioner is 
 authorized to make grants to assist counties in the development, 
 implementation, and operation of community-based corrections 
 programs including preventive or diversionary correctional 
 programs, conditional release programs, community corrections 
 centers, and facilities for the detention or confinement, care 
 and treatment of persons convicted of crime or adjudicated 
 delinquent.  The commissioner may authorize the use of a 
 percentage of a grant for the operation of an emergency shelter 
 or make a separate grant for the rehabilitation of a facility 
 owned by the grantee and used as a shelter to bring the facility 
 into compliance with state and local laws pertaining to health, 
 fire, and safety, and to provide security. 

    Subd. 2.    Definitions.  (a) For the purposes of 
 sections 401.01 to 401.16, the following terms shall have the 
 meanings given them:  

    (b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of corrections or 
 a designee; 

    (c) "Conditional release" means parole, supervised release, 
 work release as authorized by sections 241.26 and 244.065, and 
 includes probation; 

    (d) "Joint board" means the board provided in section 
 471.59; 

    (e) "Local correctional service" means those services 
 authorized by and employees, officers, and agents appointed 
 under section 244.19, subdivision 1. 

    HIST: 1973 c 354 s 1; 1982 c 559 s 1; 1985 c 220 s 7; 1Sp1985 
 c 9 art 2 s 93; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 505 s 5; 1997 c 239 art 9 s 
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