2007 Minnesota Statutes

242.18 STUDY OF OFFENDER'S BACKGROUND; REHABILITATION POLICY.
When a person has been committed to the commissioner of corrections, the commissioner
under rules shall forthwith cause the person to be examined and studied, and investigate all of the
pertinent circumstances of the person's life and the antecedents of the crime or other delinquent
conduct because of which the person has been committed to the commissioner, and thereupon
order the treatment the commissioner determines to be most conducive to rehabilitation. Persons
convicted of crimes shall not be detained in institutions for adjudicated delinquents, nor shall
delinquent children be detained in institutions for persons convicted of crimes. The court and
the prosecuting and police authorities and other public officials shall make available to the
commissioner of corrections all pertinent data in their possession in respect to the case.
History: 1947 c 595 s 1; 1961 c 750 s 4; 1973 c 654 s 5; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1977 c 392 s 4;
1983 c 274 s 18; 1986 c 444