103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3779

 

Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Carol Ammons

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 5/3-13-4  from Ch. 38, par. 1003-13-4

    Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the 15-day notification requirement to the State's Attorney and Sheriff of the county in which a work release facility is located that a committed person is being placed in a work release facility does not apply to individuals required to be housed outside the penitentiary system. Provides that for those individuals required to be housed outside the penitentiary system, the Department of Corrections as soon as reasonably practicable shall provide the State's Attorney and Sheriff of the county in which the work release center is located, relevant identifying information concerning the person to be placed in the work release facility. Provides that the information shall include, but is not limited to, such identifying information as name, age, physical description, photograph, the offense, and the sentence for which the person is serving time in the custody of the Department of Corrections, and similar information. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall, in addition, give written notice as soon as reasonably practicable to the State's Attorney of the county from which the individual was originally sentenced.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5changing Section 3-13-4 as follows:
 
6    (730 ILCS 5/3-13-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-13-4)
7    Sec. 3-13-4. Rules and Sanctions.)
8    (a) The Department shall establish rules governing release
9status and shall provide written copies of such rules to both
10the committed person on work or day release and to the employer
11or other person responsible for the individual. Such employer
12or other responsible person shall agree to abide by such
13rules, notify the Department of any violation thereof by the
14individual on release status, and notify the Department of the
15discharge of the person from work or other programs.
16    (b) If a committed person violates any rule, the
17Department may impose sanctions appropriate to the violation.
18The Department shall provide sanctions for unauthorized
19absences which shall include prosecution for escape under
20Section 3-6-4.
21    (c) An order certified by the Director, Assistant
22Director, or the Supervisor of the Apprehension Unit, or a
23person duly designated by him or her, with the seal of the

 

 

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1Department of Corrections attached and directed to all
2sheriffs, coroners, police officers, or to any particular
3persons named in the order shall be sufficient warrant for the
4officer or person named therein to arrest and deliver the
5violator to the proper correctional official. Such order shall
6be executed the same as criminal processes.
7    In the event that a work-releasee is arrested for another
8crime, the sheriff or police officer shall hold the releasee
9in custody until he notifies the nearest Office of Field
10Services or any of the above-named persons designated in this
11Section to certify the particular process or warrant.
12    (d) Not less than 15 days prior to any person being placed
13in a work release facility, the Department of Corrections
14shall provide to the State's Attorney and Sheriff of the
15county in which the work release center is located, relevant
16identifying information concerning the person to be placed in
17the work release facility. Such information shall include, but
18not be limited to, such identifying information as name, age,
19physical description, photograph, the offense, and the
20sentence for which the person is serving time in the
21Department of Corrections, and like information. The
22Department of Corrections shall, in addition, give written
23notice not less than 15 days prior to the placement to the
24State's Attorney of the county from which the offender was
25originally sentenced. The notification requirements of this
26subsection (d) do not apply to those individuals required to

 

 

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1be housed outside the penitentiary system pursuant to
2subsection (a) of Section 5-8-6.
3    (e) For those individuals required to be housed outside
4the penitentiary system as outlined in subsection (a) of
5Section 5-8-6, the Department as soon as reasonably
6practicable shall provide the State's Attorney and Sheriff of
7the county in which the work release center is located,
8relevant identifying information concerning the person to be
9placed in the work release facility. Such information shall
10include, but is not limited to, such identifying information
11as name, age, physical description, photograph, the offense,
12and the sentence for which the person is serving time in the
13custody of the Department of Corrections, and similar
14information. The Department of Corrections shall, in addition,
15give written notice as soon as reasonably practicable to the
16State's Attorney of the county from which the individual was
17originally sentenced.
18(Source: P.A. 97-1083, eff. 8-24-12.)