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AR Code § 12-27-149 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 27 - Division of Correction — Division of Community Correction|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-27-149. Division of Community Correction — Sufficient staffing guidelines

 For the purposes of maintaining a sufficiently trained and specialized staff of probation and parole officers, the Division of Community Correction shall establish staffing guidelines using evidence-based practices to develop ratios between the number of high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk probationers and parolees and the probation officers and parole officers assigned to the high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk probationers and parolees in order to maximize the effectiveness of the monitoring ability of the probation officers and parole officers.
AR Code § 12-27-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 27 - Division of Correction — Division of Community Correction|Subchapter 2 - Pay-for-Success Act|§ 12-27-201. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Pay-for-Success Act”.
AR Code § 12-27-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 27 - Division of Correction — Division of Community Correction|Subchapter 2 - Pay-for-Success Act|§ 12-27-202. Legislative findings and intent

 (a) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) Incarceration and reincarceration are costly for the government and for taxpayers;  (2) Certain intervention measures have been found to reduce reincarceration rates;  (3) Pay-for-success contracts can serve as an effective tool for addressing certain issues concerning Arkansas correctional facilities, including overcrowding, by enabling the state to finance programs aimed at reducing recidivism rates; and  (4) It is in the best interests of Arkansas residents to encourage and enable the Division of Community Correction to obtain financing for certain intervention services to reduce the recidivism rate in Arkansas correctional facilities.    (b) The General Assembly intends for this subchapter to enable the division to obtain private financing for intervention services on a pay-for-success basis to reduce the reincarceration rate in Arkansas correctional facilities.
AR Code § 12-27-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 27 - Division of Correction — Division of Community Correction|Subchapter 2 - Pay-for-Success Act|§ 12-27-203. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Incarcerated” means the condition of being committed to a state correctional facility; and  (2) “Pay-for-success program” means a program in which the Division of Community Correction pays for intervention services only if certain performance targets are met, including without limitation a reduction in the reincarceration rate in Arkansas correctional facilities through intervention measures that focus on improving personal responsibility and decision making.
AR Code § 12-27-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 27 - Division of Correction — Division of Community Correction|Subchapter 2 - Pay-for-Success Act|§ 12-27-204. Pay-for-success programs

 (a) The Division of Community Correction may enter into an agreement with entities, including without limitation licensed or accredited, as applicable, community-based providers specializing in behavioral health, case management, and job placement services, and two-year or four-year public universities to create a pay-for-success program for incarcerated individuals or individuals on parole or probation that requires the division to pay for the intervention services only if the performance targets stated in the agreement are achieved.  (b) Before entering into an agreement under subsection (a) of this section, the division shall:  (1) Calculate the amount and timing of the payments that would be earned by the entity providing the intervention services during each year of the agreement if the performance targets are achieved; and  (2) Make a written determination that the agreement will result in specific performance improvements and budgetary savings if the performance targets are achieved.    (c) An agreement entered into under subsection (a) of this section:  (1) Shall include the following:  (A) A requirement that payment be conditioned on the achievement of specific outcomes based on defined performance targets; and  (B) An agreement with an independent third party to evaluate the pay-for-success program to determine whether the performance targets have been achieved;    (2) May contain a graduated payment schedule to allow for varying payments based on different levels of performance targets; and  (3) May include without limitation an agreement with one (1) or more private entities regarding the following:  (A) One (1) or more loans to fund the pay-for-success program's delivery and operations;  (B) One (1) or more guarantees for loans obtained under this section;  (C) Payment based on reduced rates of reincarceration or other agreed-upon measures of success; and  (D) Oversight and implementation of the pay-for-success program, including without limitation the following:  (i) Making necessary financial arrangements;  (ii) Training staff;  (iii) Selecting service providers;  (iv) Overseeing the intervention measures;  (v) Monitoring pay-for-success program participation; and  (vi) Designation of one (1) entity to serve as a liaison among all parties to the agreement.
AR Code § 12-28-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-101. Facilities

 (a)  (1) The Division of Correction, with the approval of the Board of Corrections, shall provide appropriate incarceration facilities for women, youthful offenders, and other adult offenders committed to the division by the courts of this state.  (2) The division shall also provide education and other rehabilitation and treatment programs designed to prepare inmates committed to the division for productive and law-abiding lives upon release from the division.  (3) The division may contract with state or private entities such as accredited colleges or universities to provide additional educational opportunities for inmates under the direction and authority of the board and the Corrections School System.    (b) Any facility built or occupied by the division for use as a correctional facility shall be given a designated name of “unit” or “center” depending on its size, location, and purpose of usage.
AR Code § 12-28-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-102. Death chamber

 (a) The Department of Correction shall provide a death chamber within such facility or institution of the department as may be designated by the Director of the Department of Correction with the approval of the Board of Corrections.  (b) The death chamber shall have all the necessary appliances for the proper execution of felons by electrocution.  (c) All felons upon whom the death penalty has been imposed shall be executed in the death chamber.
AR Code § 12-28-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-103. Cost impact statements

 (a) Each of the following bills introduced in the General Assembly shall have a cost impact statement attached to the bill prior to the committee to which the bill is referred taking action in regard to the bill:  (1) Bills that affect inmate population patterns at facilities of the Department of Correction by imposing restrictions on inmate release or by increased intake into the department of inmates based on felony convictions; and  (2) Bills that affect programs or services of the department.    (b) In addition, copies of the cost impact statement shall be furnished on the desk of each member of the Senate and of the House of Representatives at least one (1) day prior to the date on which the bill is on third reading and debated for final passage in the respective houses.  (c) Cost impact statements required under this section shall be prepared, upon referral thereof by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, with respect to House of Representatives bills, and by the President of the Senate upon recommendation of the Senate Committee on Rules, Resolutions and Memorials, with respect to Senate bills, at the time of introduction thereof, to:  (1) The Director of the Department of Correction who shall either personally prepare or cause appropriate officials of the department to prepare, a cost impact statement to be approved by the director before submission to the house in which the request was made; or  (2) Any other state agency that has information available upon which to base a cost impact statement.    (d) The cost impact statement shall be furnished to the Governor and to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives who shall cause copies thereof to be prepared for distribution upon the desks of the members of the House of Representatives and Senate at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to consideration of any such bill by committee or twenty-four (24) hours prior to the bill's being called up for third reading and final passage.  (e) The cost impact statement shall be certified by the director or the director of the appropriate agency to which the bill is referred for preparation of an impact statement, and shall be returned and filed as required in this section within not more than five (5) days from the date of receipt thereof unless additional time in which to prepare the statement is granted by the requesting official.
AR Code § 12-28-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-104. Paroling authority

 (a) The Parole Board shall be the paroling authority for the units of the Department of Corrections and shall make recommendations to the Governor in cases from the criminal courts that, in the board's opinion, the defendant in the case should be pardoned.  (b) The board shall consider the work skills, education, rehabilitation, and treatment programs recommended to the inmate upon intake and determine whether the inmate took advantage of those opportunities while incarcerated in the department in making decisions regarding parole.
AR Code § 12-28-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-105. Continuity of care for persons released

 (a)  (1) Any person incarcerated by the Division of Correction may be permitted to remain within a treatment facility operated by the division, if serious physical or mental disorders or disabilities exist, until release to a similar treatment setting outside of the division can be accomplished.  (2) In no case should the continuation of housing extend beyond a seventy-two-hour period.    (b) The division will adopt rules to govern the housing situations.
AR Code § 12-28-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-106. Electric fencing

 (a)  (1) The Division of Correction may design and install high-voltage electrified security fence systems at all existing and proposed medium and maximum security prisons.  (2) However, at the time of installation there shall be posted universal danger signs on all sides of the system clearly visible to inmates and the public displaying in English and Spanish the warning “deadly voltage”.    (b) The installation of these fence systems shall be double, twelve-feet-high, security perimeter fences, with the exception of those locations where a building or wall constitutes a part of the security perimeter.  (c) At institutions where these fences have been installed, the division shall provide perimeter patrol for the safety of the local community.
AR Code § 12-28-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12-28-107. Training for inmates

 (a) As provided for in § 12-28-101, the Division of Correction shall provide education as well as training for inmates who want to acquire skills for employment upon release.  (b)  (1) The division shall identify high-demand vocations and careers and shall accordingly create training and skills programs to prepare inmates for gainful employment upon release.  (2) The programs under this section shall be available to all inmates except for inmates who disqualify themselves from participation due to disciplinary violations or because of other circumstances that may preclude the inmates' access to these programs.  (3) Programs under this section shall include without limitation training in the following fields:  (A) Professional careers and vocations;  (B) Service careers and vocations;  (C) Information and computer technology;  (D) Medical technology; and  (E) Office administration.
AR Code § 12-28-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act|§ 12-28-601. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act”.
AR Code § 12-28-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act|§ 12-28-602. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Board” means the Board of Corrections;  (2) “County backlog” means those inmates sentenced to the Division of Correction who are being housed in the county jails until space is available in a prison;  (3) “Prison” means a correctional facility operated by the division under the supervision and direction of the board;  (4) “Prison system” means the prison facilities of the division; and  (5) “Rated capacity” means the actual available bed space in the prison system as certified by the board, subject to applicable federal and state laws and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to those laws.
AR Code § 12-28-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act|§ 12-28-603. Declaration of emergency

 (a)  (1) Whenever the population of the prison system exceeds ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity for thirty (30) consecutive days, or whenever the number of inmates on the county jail backlog exceeds five hundred (500) inmates, the Board of Corrections may declare a prison overcrowding state of emergency.  (2) In making any emergency request based on exceeding the ninety-eight-percent capacity, the board shall certify the rated capacity and current population of the prison system and shall further certify that all authorized actions consistent with applicable state laws and rules have been exhausted in an attempt to reduce the prison population to ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity.  (3) In making any emergency request based on a county jail backlog exceeding five hundred (500) inmates, the board shall certify the list of persons on the county jail backlog and shall further certify that all authorized actions consistent with applicable state laws and rules have been exhausted in an attempt to reduce the county jail backlog to five hundred (500) inmates.    (b) Provided all other requirements of this subchapter are met, the board is authorized to invoke this subchapter separately for those facilities housing either male or female inmate populations.
AR Code § 12-28-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act|§ 12-28-604. List of inmates — Early parole or discharge

 (a)  (1) When the Board of Corrections declares a prison overcrowding state of emergency due to exceeding ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity and notifies the Director of the Division of Correction of the emergency as authorized, the director shall certify to the board a list of those inmates who are Class I and Class II, and the director shall indicate which inmates he or she recommends for parole, transfer, or discharge.  (2) The listed inmates shall be those who, if authorized, would have their parole eligibility, transfer eligibility, or minimum release dates moved up to a point where they would immediately be eligible for parole, transfer, or discharge.  (3) Upon receipt of the list of inmates certified by the director, the board is authorized to move up the projected parole eligibility, transfer eligibility, or minimum release dates of any or all inmates on the list by up to ninety (90) days.  (4) The board shall certify to the director a list of the names of all prisoners whose projected parole eligibility, transfer eligibility, or minimum release dates are affected pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.    (b)  (1) When the board declares a prison overcrowding state of emergency due to the county jail backlog exceeding five hundred (500) inmates and notifies the director of the emergency as authorized, the director shall certify to the board a list of those inmates who are in Class I or Class II status who have been incarcerated in a division facility for a minimum of six (6) months and are serving a sentence for a nonviolent offense as established by the board, and the director shall indicate which inmates he or she recommends for parole, transfer, or discharge.  (2) The listed inmates shall be those who, if authorized, would have their parole eligibility, transfer eligibility, or discharge dates moved up to a point where they would immediately be eligible for parole, transfer, or discharge.  (3) Upon the receipt of the list of inmates certified by the director, the board is authorized to move up the projected parole eligibility, transfer eligibility, or discharge dates of any or all inmates on the list by up to one (1) year.  (4) The board shall certify to the director a list of the names of all prisoners whose projected parole eligibility, transfer eligibility, or discharge dates are affected pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 12-28-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act|§ 12-28-605. Successive states of emergency

 (a) The Board of Corrections may declare succeeding prison overcrowding states of emergency at any time when the prison population exceeds ninety-eight percent (98%) of the rated capacity of the prison system, but these successive states of emergency shall not be declared more often than one (1) time each ninety (90) days or at any time the county jail backlog exceeds five hundred (500) inmates.  (b) Any subsequent state of emergency declared pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter shall have the same effect as the first declaration of emergency with respect to inmates in the prison system on the date of the declaration of each successive state of emergency.
AR Code § 12-28-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 6 - Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act|§ 12-28-606. Declaration of end of emergency

 At any time during a declared prison overcrowding state of emergency, the Board of Corrections may declare the prison overcrowding state of emergency to be ended.
AR Code § 12-28-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Boot Camp Act|§ 12-28-701. Title

 This subchapter shall be referred to and may be cited as the “Arkansas Boot Camp Act”.
AR Code § 12-28-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Boot Camp Act|§ 12-28-702. Legislative findings and determinations

 The General Assembly finds that:   (1) The cost of incarcerating the expanding number of offenders in conventional penitentiaries is skyrocketing, bringing added fiscal pressures on the state;  (2) Some inmates may be effectively punished in a more affordable manner through the exposure to severe, military-like conditions; and  (3) The Division of Correction should be given the authority to establish boot camps which will provide a more affordable means of punishing certain inmates who are designated as eligible for this alternative punishment by the division.
AR Code § 12-28-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Boot Camp Act|§ 12-28-703. Authorization

 (a) The Board of Corrections shall develop and implement a boot camp program designed to reduce the inmate population by diverting eligible offenders from long-term incarceration.  (b) This diversion shall involve successful completion of, at a minimum, a sixty-day program of intensive behavior modification in an arduous, physically demanding, military-like environment, otherwise known as a “boot camp”.
AR Code § 12-28-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs|Chapter 28 - State Correctional Facilities|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Boot Camp Act|§ 12-28-704. Eligibility

 Appropriate inmates shall be chosen for the boot camp program established by this subchapter in accordance with guidelines to be adopted by the Board of Corrections. These guidelines must include a risk profile system to be used in selecting inmates eligible for assignment to the program.