KRS § 196.031 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 196 / Section 196.031
196.031 Employment of personnel -- Annual report
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196.031 Employment of personnel -- Annual report.

(1) The cabinet shall employ the personnel and operate and maintain data collection

and processing systems necessary to comply with the provisions of this section.

(2) The cabinet shall annually on July 1 of each year report to the Governor, the

Legislative Research Commission, and the Kentucky State Corrections Commission

on:

(a) The placement of prisoners within the Commonwealth's correctional system

by institution, whether imprisoned in a state prison or other institution,

including county jails, on probation, paroled, housed in halfway houses,

housed in reentry centers, sentenced to community service or otherwise;

(b) Numbers of prisoners by type of offense;

(c) Numbers of prisoners by number and type of prior convictions;

(d) Numbers of prisoners paroled by type of offense and by length of time served;

(e) Numbers of prisoners released through shock probation by type of offense and

by length of time served;

(f) Numbers of prisoners serving their full sentence by type of offense;

(g) The percentage of felony offenders on parole or some form of post-release

supervision who are participating or completing treatment consistent with

assessment results, in prison and in the community;

(h) The percentage of felony offenders whose reassessment results demonstrate

reductions in criminal risk factors;

(i) The percentage of programs that demonstrate their effectiveness in reducing

recidivism;

(j) The percentage of felony offenders on parole or some form of post-release

supervision, by supervision type, who:

1. Are employed or in school within thirty (30) days, six (6) months, and

one (1) year of the start of supervision;

2. Have had part-time employment for a minimum of six (6) months, and

the percentage of offenders who have had full-time employment for a

minimum of six (6) months;

3. Have housing upon release from incarceration;

4. Had stable housing for at least six (6) months; and

5. Are arrested, convicted, or returned to custody within six (6) months,

one (1) year, and three (3) years;

(k) The percentage of admissions to prison by offenders under supervision at the

time of admission, including information regarding whether the violations

were criminal or technical;

(l) The percentage of offenders participating in each reentry program operated

by, or operated under contract with, the department who were arrested,

convicted, or returned to custody within three (3) years of their release from

custody, including whether they participated in the program while in custody,

upon release, or both, and the offense that led to the arrest, conviction, or

return to custody;

(m) The percentage of offenders who did not participate in any programs under

paragraph (l) of this subsection who were arrested, convicted, or returned to

custody within three (3) years of their release from custody. including the

offense that led to the arrest, conviction, or return to custody; and

(n) Any other data that provides information on state-funded crime reduction and

recidivism reduction efforts, including caseload sizes by risk level,

participation in treatment and intervention programming, public safety

outcomes, and cost effectiveness.

(3) The cabinet shall annually report to the Governor and to the Legislative Research

Commission on:

(a) Numbers and types of prison beds necessary to meet current population needs

and six (6) year projections of those needs;

(b) Current personnel needs of the cabinet and five (5) year projections of the

needs; and

(c) A six (6) year projection of needed capital construction, program

development, and anticipated requests for appropriations.