MS SB2993

Establishes a Community Corrections Reassimilation and Restitution Program administered by a five-member commission composed of the district attorney, sheriff, a criminal defense bar member, and two additional members appointed by the circuit judge.

Authorizes the commission to create and manage programs including community service, post-adjudication supervision, vocational/educational services, residential rehabilitation and work-release, and reentry programs for inmates released from the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Grants the commission authority to contract with not-for-profit corporations, charge participant fees, hire personnel, hold property, obtain grants, and provide transportation for participants to job sites while granting civil liability exemptions for transportation-related acts.

Allows judges to order criminal defendants with suspended sentences to participate in commission-supervised probation programs with conditions including periodic reporting, drug/alcohol testing, and reasonable supervision fees paid by participants.

Permits judges to order eligible offenders into residential work-release programs as an alternative to incarceration, requiring participants to pay 40% of gross earnings toward program costs and restitution, with failure to comply resulting in arrest and sentence reinstatement; effective July 1, 2010.