An Act to Revise the Reimbursement by the County Jail Prisoner Support and Community Corrections Fund and To Provide Additional Support to County Jails
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1186
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: STRIMLING

Legislative Document 
No. 1186 
S.P.390 
In Senate, March 6, 2003 
An Act to Revise the Reimbursement by the County Jail Prisoner 
Support and Community Corrections Fund and To Provide 
Additional Support to County Jails 
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed . 
Presented by Senator STRIMLING of Cumberland. 
Printed on recycled paper 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 34·A MRSA §1210·A. as amended by PL 2001, c. 698, 
§§4 and 5 and affected by §7, is further amended to read: 
§1210-A. Community corrections 
I. 
Definitions. 
As 
used 
in 
context 
otherwise 
indicates, 
the 
following meanings. 
this 
section, 
unless 
following 
terms 
have 
the 
the 
A. 
"Community 
corrections" 
means 
the 
delivery 
of 
correctional services for juveniles or adults in the least 
restrictive manner that ensures the public safety by the 
county or for the county under contract with a public or 
pr i vate entity. 
"Community corrections" includes, 
but is 
not 
limited to, 
preventive 
or 
diversionary 
correctional 
programs, pretrial release or conditional release programs, 
alternative 
sentencing 
or 
housing 
programs, 
electronic 
monitoring, 
residential 
treatment 
and 
halfway 
house 
programs, 
community 
correctional 
centers 
and 
temporary 
release 
programs 
from 
a 
facility 
for 
the 
detention 
or 
confinement of persons convicted of crimes or adjudicated 
delinquents. 
2. 
Establishment 
of 
County 
Jail 
Prisoner 
Support 
and 
Community Corrections Fund. 
The County Jail Prisoner Support and 
Community Corrections 
Fund is established for the purpose of 
providing state funding for a portion of the counties' costs of 
the support of prisoners detained or sentenced to county jails 
and for establishing and maintaining community corrections as 
defined in subsection 1. 
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3-A. 
Distribytion. 
The de12artment shall annuall~ reimburse 
each 
count~ for a 12ortion of the actual cQsts of o12erating its 
jail based on the following schedule: 
A. 
Beginning July 1, 
2005, 
Qo 
of the actugl 
cosl;,Q 
of 
o12erating the county jail : 
B. 
Beginning July 1, 
2006, 
15°0 
of the actual costs of 
o12erating the county jail : 
c. 
Beginning July 1, 
2007, 
20°0 
of the actual costs of 
o12erating the county jail: 
D. 
Beginning July 1, 
2008, 
25'1-0 
of the actual costs of 
o12erating the county jail; and 
E. 
Beginning July 1, 
2009, 
30'1-0 
of the actugl costs 
Qf 
o12erating the county jail. 
Notwi thstanding 12aragra12hs 
A to E, 
in no case may the amount 
distributed to a county be less than the amount of funds thgt 
count~ received in the 
~ear immediatel~ 12riQr to the effective 
date of this subsection. 
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5. 
Community 
Corrections 
Program 
Account. 
Each 
county 
treasurer 
shall 
place 
20% 
of 
the 
funds 
received 
from 
the 
department pursuant to this section into a separate community 
corrections program account. 
Funds placed in this account may be 
used only for adult or juvenile community corrections as defined 
in subsection 1. 
6. 
Report. 
Beginning 
January 
15, 
1999 
and 
annually 
thereafter, each county shall submit a written report to the 
joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over 
corrections 
and 
criminal 
justice matters. 
Reports 
must 
include 
descriptions 
of 
each 
county's 
community 
corrections 
programs 
and an accounting of expendi tur'es for its communi ty 
corrections. 
7. 
Technical assistance. 
The commissioner shall provide 
technical assistance to counties and county advisory groups to 
aid them in the planning and development of community corrections. 
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9. 
Surcharge imposed. 
In addition to the l2 q" 
surcharge 
collected pursuant to Title 4, section 1057 and the 2% surcharge 
collected pursuant to Title 4, section 1057-A, an additional Po 
surcharge must be added to every fine, 
forfeiture or penalty 
imposed by any court in this State, which for the purposes of 
collection and collection procedures is considered a part of the 
fine, forfeiture or penalty. 
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funds 
collected pursuant to this subsection are 
nonlapsing and must be deposited monthly in the County Jail 
Prisoner 
Support 
and 
Communit¥ 
Corrections 
Fund 
that 
is 
administered by the department. 
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Funds distributed to counties 
pursuant to this subsection must be used for the sole purpose of 
funding costs of the support of prisoners detained or sentenced 
to county j ails and for establishing and maintaining community 
corrections. 
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11. 
Adoption of rules. 
The commissioner shall adopt rules 
in order to carry out the purposes of this section that set forth 
the 
procedure 
for 
determining the 
amount 
of 
funds 
due 
each 
county. 
Rules 
adopted pursuant to this 
section are 
routine 
technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 
2-A. 
Sec. 2. Effective date. 
This Act takes effect July 1, 2005. 
SUMMARY 
The 
Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, 
Title 
34-A, 
section 
1210-A 
currently provides for a subsidy to counties for the support of 
prisoners detained or sentenced to county jails and maintaining 
communi ty 
corrections. 
This 
bill 
changes 
the 
section 
to 
reimburse a percentage of the actual costs of those programs. 
The percentage would start at 10°" beginning July 1, 
2005 and 
increase in annual increments of 
5~ to a maximum of 30~ of actual 
costs reimbursed.