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Committee narrows offender evaluation bill, pauses action and asks staff for follow-up on treatment, compassionate release
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee narrowed LLS 205821 to two evaluation topics — the aging incarcerated population and access to the *** offender treatment program — and declined to approve a broad, contracted study at this meeting.
The Joint Budget Committee considered LLS 205821, a draft bill to evaluate Department of Corrections (DOC) practices affecting aging incarcerated people and access to required treatment services.
Presenters told the committee the draft originally included four evaluations: aging in DOC, an evaluation of the *** offender treatment program backlog, an evaluation of community corrections referrals, and an evaluation of DOC’s classification system. Because of fiscal concerns and to narrow scope, the draft discussed in the hearing removed community corrections and the classification review and retained only two components: the aging population review and an evaluation of…
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