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IL HB5535
Bill
Status
1/8/2019
Primary Sponsor
Kelly Cassidy
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AI Summary
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Allows renewal of existing for-profit contracts for community correctional supervision that were in effect immediately before the Act's effective date.
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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