2003 Minnesota Statutes

     244.17 Challenge incarceration program. 

    Subdivision 1.    Generally.  The commissioner may 
 select offenders who meet the eligibility requirements of 
 subdivisions 2 and 3 to participate in a challenge incarceration 
 program described in sections 244.171 and 244.172 for all or 
 part of the offender's sentence if the offender agrees to 
 participate in the program and signs a written contract with the 
 commissioner agreeing to comply with the program's requirements. 

    Subd. 2.    Eligibility.  The commissioner must limit 
 the challenge incarceration program to the following persons: 

    (1) offenders who are committed to the commissioner's 
 custody following revocation of a stayed sentence; and 

    (2) offenders who are committed to the commissioner's 
 custody, who have 48 months or less in or remaining in their 
 term of imprisonment, and who did not receive a dispositional 
 departure under the sentencing guidelines. 

    Subd. 3.    Offenders not eligible.  The following 
 offenders are not eligible to be placed in the challenge 
 incarceration program: 

    (1) offenders who are committed to the commissioner's 
 custody following a conviction for murder, manslaughter, 
 criminal sexual conduct, assault, kidnapping, robbery, arson, or 
 any other offense involving death or intentional personal 
 injury; and 

    (2) offenders who were convicted within the preceding ten 
 years of an offense described in clause (1) and were committed 
 to the custody of the commissioner. 

    HIST: 1992 c 513 art 9 s 3; 1992 c 571 art 11 s 5,17; 1993 c 
 326 art 8 s 10; 1996 c 408 art 8 s 6; 1997 c 7 art 1 s 93; 1997 
 c 239 art 9 s 26