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IL HB5535

Bill

Status

Failed

1/8/2019

Primary Sponsor

Kelly Cassidy

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Origin

House of Representatives

100th General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Creates the For-Profit Community Corrections Prohibition Act to prohibit the State from contracting with for-profit prison companies for community correctional supervision of persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections or Department of Juvenile Justice, effective upon passage.

  • Defines "community correctional supervision" to include surveillance of parolees, mandatory supervised release monitoring, and rehabilitative re-entry services such as residential, employment, educational, substance abuse, and mental health programming.

  • Defines "for-profit prison company" as a for-profit corporation or business entity that is not organized as a not-for-profit entity and owns, manages, or operates correctional facilities or community correctional supervision services.

  • Allows renewal of existing for-profit contracts for community correctional supervision that were in effect immediately before the Act's effective date.

  • Does not affect prohibitions established by the Private Correctional Facility Moratorium Act.

Legislative Description

FOR-PROFIT COM CORRECTIONS

Last Action

Session Sine Die

1/8/2019

Committee Referrals

Rules4/13/2018
Labor & Commerce3/21/2018
Rules2/16/2018

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