SB 1060 Summary

• Establishes a workgroup within the Department of Corrections responsible for reviewing the use of segregation, Level IV, and Level V housing and advising on policies to reduce their use.

• Workgroup membership includes the corrections director, deputy director, health administrator, legislative ombudsman, four prisoner advocacy representatives, two independent mental health experts, a recipient rights specialist, and a protection and advocacy agency representative.

• Workgroup must meet bimonthly to review department reports, alternative mental health programs, and therapeutic/educational programs for segregated prisoners; must tour at least 2 facilities annually.

• Workgroup may request information from the department, tour facilities with prisoner consent, review case files with written releases, and convene public meetings on conditions of confinement and policy violations.

• Workgroup must file written reports by June 15 and December 15 each year to legislative committees, the governor, civil rights commission, and other state agencies, including data on in-cell/out-of-cell time, programming effectiveness, critical incidents, and policy recommendations.

• Bill does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 1061 is enacted into law.