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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 3-3-5 as follows:
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| 6 | (730 ILCS 5/3-3-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-3-5)
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| 7 | Sec. 3-3-5. Hearing and Determination.
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| 8 | (a) The Prisoner
Review Board shall meet as often as need | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | requires to consider
the cases of persons eligible for parole. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Except as otherwise
provided in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | of Section 3-3-2
of this Act, the Prisoner Review Board may | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | meet and
order its actions in panels of 3 or more members. The | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | action
of a majority of the panel shall be the action of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Board.
In consideration of persons committed to the Department | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | of Juvenile Justice,
the panel shall have at least a majority | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | of members experienced
in juvenile matters.
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| 17 | (b) If the person under consideration for parole is in the
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| 18 | custody of the Department, at least one member of the Board
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| 19 | shall interview him, and a report of that interview shall be
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| 20 | available for the Board's consideration. However, in the
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| 21 | discretion of the Board, the interview need not be conducted
if | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | a psychiatric examination determines that the person could
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| 23 | meaningfully contribute to the Board's consideration. The
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| 1 | Board may in its discretion parole a person who is then outside
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| 2 | the jurisdiction on his record without an interview. The Board
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| 3 | need not hold a hearing or interview a person who is paroled
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| 4 | under paragraphs (d) or (e) of this Section or released on
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| 5 | Mandatory release under Section 3-3-10.
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| 6 | (c) The Board shall not parole a person eligible for
parole | ||||||
| 7 | if it determines that:
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| 8 | (1) there is a substantial risk that he will not
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| 9 | conform to reasonable conditions of parole; or
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| 10 | (2) his release at that time would deprecate the
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| 11 | seriousness of his offense or promote disrespect for the | ||||||
| 12 | law; or
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| 13 | (3) his release would have a substantially adverse
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| 14 | effect on institutional discipline.
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| 15 | (d) A person committed under the Juvenile Court Act
or the | ||||||
| 16 | Juvenile Court Act of 1987
who has not been sooner released | ||||||
| 17 | shall be paroled on or before
his 20th birthday to begin | ||||||
| 18 | serving a period of parole under
Section 3-3-8.
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| 19 | (e) A person who has served the maximum term of
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| 20 | imprisonment imposed at the time of sentencing less time
credit | ||||||
| 21 | for good behavior shall be released on parole to
serve a period | ||||||
| 22 | of parole under Section 5-8-1.
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| 23 | (f) The Board shall render its decision within a
reasonable | ||||||
| 24 | time after hearing and shall state the basis
therefor both in | ||||||
| 25 | the records of the Board and in written
notice to the person on | ||||||
| 26 | whose application it has acted.
In its decision, the Board | ||||||
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| 1 | shall set the person's time
for parole, or if it denies parole | ||||||
| 2 | it shall provide for
a rehearing not less frequently than once | ||||||
| 3 | every
year, except that the Board may,
after denying parole,
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| 4 | schedule a rehearing no later than 5 3 years from the date of | ||||||
| 5 | the parole
denial, if the Board finds that it is not reasonable | ||||||
| 6 | to expect that parole
would be granted at a hearing prior to | ||||||
| 7 | the scheduled rehearing date. If the
Board shall parole a | ||||||
| 8 | person, and, if he is not released within 90 days from
the | ||||||
| 9 | effective date of the order granting parole, the matter shall | ||||||
| 10 | be
returned to the Board for review.
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| 11 | (g) The Board shall maintain a registry of decisions in | ||||||
| 12 | which parole
has been granted, which shall include the name and | ||||||
| 13 | case number of the
prisoner, the highest charge for which the | ||||||
| 14 | prisoner was sentenced, the
length of sentence imposed, the | ||||||
| 15 | date of the sentence, the date of the
parole, and the basis for | ||||||
| 16 | the decision of the Board to grant parole and the
vote of the | ||||||
| 17 | Board on any such decisions. The registry shall be made | ||||||
| 18 | available
for public inspection and copying during business | ||||||
| 19 | hours and shall be a public
record pursuant to the provisions | ||||||
| 20 | of the Freedom of Information Act.
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| 21 | (h) The Board shall promulgate rules regarding the exercise
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| 22 | of its discretion under this Section.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 96-875, eff. 1-22-10.)
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