94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4446

 

Introduced 1/9/2006, by Rep. Milton Patterson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 5/3-14-4   from Ch. 38, par. 1003-14-4

    Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall adopt rules that limit the number of half-way houses that may be established by the Department within a geographic area as determined by the Department.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
5 changing Section 3-14-4 as follows:
 
6     (730 ILCS 5/3-14-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-14-4)
7     Sec. 3-14-4. Half-way Houses.
8     (a) The Department may establish and maintain half-way
9 houses for the residence of persons on parole or mandatory
10 release. The Department shall adopt rules that limit the number
11 of half-way houses that may be established by the Department
12 within a geographic area as determined by the Department. Such
13 half-way houses shall be maintained apart from security
14 institutions, except that the Director of Corrections is
15 authorized to designate that any work or day release facility,
16 or any portion thereof, may be used as a half-way house for the
17 residence of persons on parole or mandatory supervised release.
18     (b) For those persons to be placed in a half-way house
19 directly upon release from an institution on parole or
20 mandatory supervised release status, not less than 15 days
21 prior to the placement of such a person in such a half-way
22 house, the Department of Corrections shall give written notice
23 to the State's Attorney and the Sheriff of the county and the
24 proper law enforcement agency of the municipality in which the
25 half-way house is located of the identity of the person to be
26 placed in that program. Such identifying information shall
27 include, but not be limited to, the name of the individual,
28 age, physical description, photograph, the crime for which the
29 person was originally sentenced to the Department of
30 Corrections, and like information. The notice shall be given in
31 all cases, except when placement of an emergency nature is
32 necessary. In such emergency cases, oral notice shall be given

 

 

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1 to the appropriate parties within 24 hours with written notice
2 to follow within 5 days.
3     (c) Persons on parole or mandatory supervised release
4 status who have been previously released to the community, but
5 who are not currently residing in a half-way house, may be
6 placed in a half-way house upon the oral notification of the
7 parties within 24 hours as indicated in subsection (b) of this
8 Section. Such oral notification shall be followed with written
9 notification within 5 days.
10 (Source: P.A. 91-695, eff. 4-13-00.)