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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 128
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  128  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  to discourage criminal behavior, amending named
 5    Acts."; and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section 5.  The School Code is amended by adding Section
 9    27-23.5 as follows:
10        (105 ILCS 5/27-23.5 new)
11        Sec.   27-23.5.  Prison   life   video.   In  all  school
12    districts, including special  charter  districts  and  school
13    districts  organized  under  Article  34, the school district
14    shall show at least once each school year in each  attendance
15    center of the district the educational video on the realities
16    of prison life that the Department of Corrections is required
17    to produce and make available to school districts as provided
18    in  subsection  (3)  of  Section 3-2-2 of the Unified Code of
19    Corrections.
20        Section 10.  The Unified Code of Corrections  is  amended
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 1    by changing Section 3-2-2 as follows:
 2        (730 ILCS 5/3-2-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-2)
 3        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 89-507)
 4        Sec. 3-2-2.  Powers and Duties of the Department.
 5        (1)  In    addition    to    the   powers,   duties   and
 6    responsibilities which are otherwise  provided  by  law,  the
 7    Department shall have the following powers:
 8        (a)  To  accept  persons committed to it by the courts of
 9    this State for care, custody, treatment and rehabilitation.
10        (b)  To develop and  maintain  reception  and  evaluation
11    units   for   purposes   of   analyzing   the   custody   and
12    rehabilitation needs of persons committed to it and to assign
13    such  persons  to institutions and programs under its control
14    or  transfer  them  to  other   appropriate   agencies.    In
15    consultation  with the Department of Alcoholism and Substance
16    Abuse, the Department of Corrections shall develop  a  master
17    plan for the screening and evaluation of persons committed to
18    its  custody who have alcohol or drug abuse problems, and for
19    making appropriate treatment available to such  persons;  the
20    Department  shall report to the General Assembly on such plan
21    not  later  than  April  1,  1987.    The   maintenance   and
22    implementation  of  such  plan  shall  be contingent upon the
23    availability of funds.
24        (b-5)  To develop, in consultation with the Department of
25    State Police, a program  for  tracking  and  evaluating  each
26    inmate  from  commitment through release for recording his or
27    her gang affiliations, activities, or ranks.
28        (c)  To maintain and administer  all  State  correctional
29    institutions   and   facilities  under  its  control  and  to
30    establish new ones as  needed.   Pursuant  to  its  power  to
31    establish  new  institutions  and  facilities, the Department
32    may, with the written approval of the Governor, authorize the
33    Department of Central Management Services to  enter  into  an
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 1    agreement  of the type described in subsection (d) of Section
 2    67.02 of the Civil  Administrative  Code  of  Illinois.   The
 3    Department  shall  designate  those  institutions which shall
 4    constitute the State Penitentiary System.
 5        Pursuant to its power to establish new  institutions  and
 6    facilities,  the  Department  may authorize the Department of
 7    Central Management Services to accept bids from counties  and
 8    municipalities for the construction, remodeling or conversion
 9    of  a structure to be leased to the Department of Corrections
10    for the purposes of its serving as a correctional institution
11    or facility.  Such construction, remodeling or conversion may
12    be  financed  with  revenue  bonds  issued  pursuant  to  the
13    Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act by the  municipality  or
14    county.   The lease specified in a bid shall be for a term of
15    not less than the time needed to  retire  any  revenue  bonds
16    used to finance the project, but not to exceed 40 years.  The
17    lease  may  grant  to  the  State  the option to purchase the
18    structure outright.
19        Upon receipt of the bids, the Department may certify  one
20    or  more  of  the  bids and shall submit any such bids to the
21    General Assembly for approval.  Upon approval of a bid  by  a
22    constitutional   majority  of  both  houses  of  the  General
23    Assembly, pursuant to joint  resolution,  the  Department  of
24    Central  Management Services may enter into an agreement with
25    the county or municipality pursuant to such bid.
26        (c-5)  To build and maintain regional juvenile  detention
27    centers  and  to  charge  a  per  diem  to  the  counties  as
28    established  by the Department to defray the costs of housing
29    each minor in a center.  In this subsection (c-5),  "juvenile
30    detention  center"  means  a  facility to house minors during
31    pendency of trial who have been transferred from  proceedings
32    under  the  Juvenile  Court Act of 1987 to prosecutions under
33    the criminal laws of this State in  accordance  with  Section
34    5-4  of  the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, whether the transfer
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 1    was by operation of law or  permissive  under  that  Section.
 2    The  Department  shall designate the counties to be served by
 3    each regional juvenile detention center.
 4        (d)  To  develop  and  maintain  programs   of   control,
 5    rehabilitation and employment of committed persons within its
 6    institutions.
 7        (e)  To establish a system of supervision and guidance of
 8    committed persons in the community.
 9        (f)  To  establish  in cooperation with the Department of
10    Transportation to supply a sufficient number of prisoners for
11    use by the Department of Transportation to clean up the trash
12    and garbage  along  State,  county,  township,  or  municipal
13    highways  as  designated by the Department of Transportation.
14    The  Department  of  Corrections,  at  the  request  of   the
15    Department of Transportation, shall furnish such prisoners at
16    least  annually  for  a  period to be agreed upon between the
17    Director of Corrections and the Director  of  Transportation.
18    The  prisoners  used on this program shall be selected by the
19    Director of Corrections on whatever basis he deems proper  in
20    consideration  of their term, behavior and earned eligibility
21    to participate in such program - where they will  be  outside
22    of  the  prison  facility  but  still  in  the custody of the
23    Department of  Corrections.   Prisoners  convicted  of  first
24    degree  murder,  or  a  Class X felony, or armed violence, or
25    aggravated   kidnapping,    or   criminal   sexual   assault,
26    aggravated criminal sexual abuse or a  subsequent  conviction
27    for  criminal  sexual abuse, or forcible detention, or arson,
28    or a prisoner adjudged  a  Habitual  Criminal  shall  not  be
29    eligible  for  selection to participate in such program.  The
30    prisoners shall remain as prisoners in  the  custody  of  the
31    Department  of  Corrections and such Department shall furnish
32    whatever   security   is   necessary.   The   Department   of
33    Transportation shall furnish trucks  and  equipment  for  the
34    highway cleanup program and personnel to supervise and direct
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 1    the  program.  Neither  the Department of Corrections nor the
 2    Department  of  Transportation  shall  replace  any   regular
 3    employee with a prisoner.
 4        (g)  To  maintain  records of persons committed to it and
 5    to establish programs of research, statistics and planning.
 6        (h)  To  investigate  the  grievances   of   any   person
 7    committed  to  the  Department,  to  inquire into any alleged
 8    misconduct  by  employees  or  committed  persons,   and   to
 9    investigate  the  assets  of  committed  persons to implement
10    Section 3-7-6 of this Code; and for  these  purposes  it  may
11    issue  subpoenas  and  compel the attendance of witnesses and
12    the production of writings and papers, and may examine  under
13    oath  any  witnesses  who  may  appear  before  it;  to  also
14    investigate  alleged  violations of a parolee's or releasee's
15    conditions of parole or release; and for this purpose it  may
16    issue  subpoenas  and  compel the attendance of witnesses and
17    the production of  documents  only  if  there  is  reason  to
18    believe that such procedures would provide evidence that such
19    violations have occurred.
20        If  any person fails to obey a subpoena issued under this
21    subsection, the Director may apply to any  circuit  court  to
22    secure  compliance  with the subpoena.  The failure to comply
23    with the order of the court issued in response thereto  shall
24    be punishable as contempt of court.
25        (i)  To  appoint  and  remove  the  chief  administrative
26    officers, and administer programs of training and development
27    of  personnel  of  the  Department. Personnel assigned by the
28    Department to be responsible for the custody and  control  of
29    committed persons or to investigate the alleged misconduct of
30    committed  persons  or  employees  or alleged violations of a
31    parolee's  or  releasee's  conditions  of  parole  shall   be
32    conservators  of the peace for those purposes, and shall have
33    the full power of peace officers outside of the facilities of
34    the  Department  in  the  protection,  arrest,  retaking  and
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 1    reconfining of committed persons or  where  the  exercise  of
 2    such   power  is  necessary  to  the  investigation  of  such
 3    misconduct or violations.
 4        (j)  To cooperate with other departments and agencies and
 5    with local communities for the development of  standards  and
 6    programs for better correctional services in this State.
 7        (k)  To  administer  all  moneys  and  properties  of the
 8    Department.
 9        (l)  To report annually to the Governor on the  committed
10    persons, institutions and programs of the Department.
11        (l-5)  In  a  confidential annual report to the Governor,
12    the Department shall identify all inmate gangs by  specifying
13    each  current  gang's name, population and allied gangs.  The
14    Department shall further specify the number  of  top  leaders
15    identified  by  the  Department for each gang during the past
16    year, and the measures taken by the Department  to  segregate
17    each  leader  from  his  or  her  gang and allied gangs.  The
18    Department shall further report the current status of leaders
19    identified and segregated in  previous  years.   All  leaders
20    described  in the report shall be identified by inmate number
21    or  other  designation  to  enable  tracking,  auditing,  and
22    verification without revealing  the  names  of  the  leaders.
23    Because  this  report  contains  law enforcement intelligence
24    information  collected  by  the  Department,  the  report  is
25    confidential and not subject to public disclosure.
26        (m)  To make all rules and regulations and  exercise  all
27    powers and duties vested by law in the Department.
28        (n)  To establish rules and regulations for administering
29    a  system  of good conduct credits, established in accordance
30    with Section 3-6-3, subject to review by the Prisoner  Review
31    Board.
32        (o)  To  administer  the  distribution  of funds from the
33    State  Treasury  to  reimburse  counties  where  State  penal
34    institutions are located for the payment of assistant state's
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 1    attorneys' salaries under  Section  4-2001  of  the  Counties
 2    Code.
 3        (p)  To exchange information with the Illinois Department
 4    of   Public   Aid   for   the  purpose  of  verifying  living
 5    arrangements and for other purposes directly  connected  with
 6    the  administration  of this Code and the Illinois Public Aid
 7    Code.
 8        (q)  To establish a diversion program.
 9        The program shall provide a  structured  environment  for
10    selected  technical  parole  or  mandatory supervised release
11    violators and committed persons who have violated  the  rules
12    governing  their conduct while in work release.  This program
13    shall not apply to those persons who  have  committed  a  new
14    offense  while  serving  on  parole  or  mandatory supervised
15    release or while committed to work release.
16        Elements of the program shall include, but shall  not  be
17    limited to, the following:
18             (1)  The staff of a diversion facility shall provide
19        supervision in accordance with required objectives set by
20        the facility.
21             (2)  Participants  shall  be  required  to  maintain
22        employment.
23             (3)  Each  participant  shall pay for room and board
24        at the facility on a sliding-scale basis according to the
25        participant's income.
26             (4)  Each participant shall:
27                  (A)  provide   restitution   to   victims    in
28             accordance with any court order;
29                  (B)  provide    financial    support   to   his
30             dependents; and
31                  (C)  make appropriate payments toward any other
32             court-ordered obligations.
33             (5)  Each  participant  shall   complete   community
34        service in addition to employment.
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 1             (6)  Participants    shall   take   part   in   such
 2        counseling,  educational  and  other  programs   as   the
 3        Department may deem appropriate.
 4             (7)  Participants  shall  submit to drug and alcohol
 5        screening.
 6             (8)  The Department shall promulgate rules governing
 7        the administration of the program.
 8        (r)  To   enter   into   intergovernmental    cooperation
 9    agreements   under  which  persons  in  the  custody  of  the
10    Department may participate in a county  impact  incarceration
11    program  established under Section 3-6038 or 3-15003.5 of the
12    Counties Code.
13        (r-5)  To  enter   into   intergovernmental   cooperation
14    agreements  under  which  minors  adjudicated  delinquent and
15    committed  to  the  Department   of   Corrections,   Juvenile
16    Division,   may  participate  in  a  county  juvenile  impact
17    incarceration program established under Section 3-6039 of the
18    Counties Code.
19        (r-10)  To systematically  and  routinely  identify  with
20    respect  to  each  streetgang  active within the correctional
21    system: (1) each active gang; (2) every  existing  inter-gang
22    affiliation  or alliance; and (3) the current leaders in each
23    gang.  The Department shall promptly segregate  leaders  from
24    inmates   who   belong  to  their  gangs  and  allied  gangs.
25    "Segregate" means no physical  contact  and,  to  the  extent
26    possible  under  the  conditions  and  space available at the
27    correctional  facility,  prohibition  of  visual  and   sound
28    communication.   For  the  purposes of this paragraph (r-10),
29    "leaders" means persons who:
30             (i)  are members of a criminal streetgang;
31             (ii)  with respect to other individuals  within  the
32        streetgang,  occupy  a position of organizer, supervisor,
33        or other position of management or leadership; and
34             (iii)  are  actively  and  personally   engaged   in
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 1        directing,    ordering,    authorizing,   or   requesting
 2        commission  of  criminal  acts  by  others,   which   are
 3        punishable  as  a  felony,  in  furtherance of streetgang
 4        related  activity  both  within  and   outside   of   the
 5        Department of Corrections.
 6    "Streetgang",  "gang",  and  "streetgang  related"  have  the
 7    meanings  ascribed  to  them  in  Section  10 of the Illinois
 8    Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
 9        (s)  To operate a super-maximum security institution,  in
10    order  to  manage and supervise inmates who are disruptive or
11    dangerous and provide for the  safety  and  security  of  the
12    staff and the other inmates.
13        (t)  To  monitor  any  unprivileged  conversation  or any
14    unprivileged communication, whether in person  or   by  mail,
15    telephone,  or  other  means,  between  an inmate who, before
16    commitment to the Department, was a member  of  an  organized
17    gang  and  any other person without the need to show cause or
18    satisfy any other requirement of  law  before  beginning  the
19    monitoring,   except   as   constitutionally   required.  The
20    monitoring may  be  by  video,  voice,  or  other  method  of
21    recording or by any other means.  As used in this subdivision
22    (1)(t),  "organized  gang"  has the meaning ascribed to it in
23    Section 10  of  the  Illinois  Streetgang  Terrorism  Omnibus
24    Prevention Act.
25        As   used   in  this  subdivision  (1)(t),  "unprivileged
26    conversation"  or  "unprivileged   communication"   means   a
27    conversation  or  communication  that is not protected by any
28    privilege recognized by law or by decision, rule, or order of
29    the Illinois Supreme Court.
30        (u)  To do all other acts  necessary  to  carry  out  the
31    provisions of this Chapter.
32        (2)  The  Department  of  Corrections shall by January 1,
33    1998, consider building and operating a correctional facility
34    within 100 miles of a county of over  2,000,000  inhabitants,
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 1    especially a facility designed to house juvenile participants
 2    in the impact incarceration program.
 3        (3)  The  Department  of  Corrections  shall  produce  an
 4    educational  video  on  the  realities  of prison life.  This
 5    video shall be filmed by the Department of Corrections, shall
 6    have a running time of approximately 30 minutes, and shall be
 7    updated and refilmed by the Department every  4  years.   The
 8    Department  of  Corrections  shall  make  the video available
 9    annually, without charge, to school districts and educational
10    administrators throughout the State as a tool  to  discourage
11    students from criminal behavior.
12    (Source:  P.A.  88-311; 88-469; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-110,
13    eff. 1-1-96; 89-302,  eff.  8-11-95;  89-312,  eff.  8-11-95;
14    89-390,  eff.  8-20-95;  89-626,  eff.  8-9-96;  89-688, eff.
15    6-1-97; 89-689, eff. 12-31-96.)
16        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 89-507)
17        Sec. 3-2-2.  Powers and Duties of the Department.
18        (1)  In   addition   to   the    powers,    duties    and
19    responsibilities  which  are  otherwise  provided by law, the
20    Department shall have the following powers:
21        (a)  To accept persons committed to it by the  courts  of
22    this State for care, custody, treatment and rehabilitation.
23        (b)  To  develop  and  maintain  reception and evaluation
24    units   for   purposes   of   analyzing   the   custody   and
25    rehabilitation needs of persons committed to it and to assign
26    such persons to institutions and programs under  its  control
27    or   transfer   them   to  other  appropriate  agencies.   In
28    consultation with the Department of Alcoholism and  Substance
29    Abuse  (now the Department of Human Services), the Department
30    of Corrections shall develop a master plan for the  screening
31    and  evaluation  of persons committed to its custody who have
32    alcohol or drug abuse problems, and  for  making  appropriate
33    treatment  available  to  such  persons; the Department shall
34    report to the General Assembly on such plan  not  later  than
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 1    April  1,  1987.   The maintenance and implementation of such
 2    plan shall be contingent upon the availability of funds.
 3        (b-5)  To develop, in consultation with the Department of
 4    State Police, a program  for  tracking  and  evaluating  each
 5    inmate  from  commitment through release for recording his or
 6    her gang affiliations, activities, or ranks.
 7        (c)  To maintain and administer  all  State  correctional
 8    institutions   and   facilities  under  its  control  and  to
 9    establish new ones as  needed.   Pursuant  to  its  power  to
10    establish  new  institutions  and  facilities, the Department
11    may, with the written approval of the Governor, authorize the
12    Department of Central Management Services to  enter  into  an
13    agreement  of the type described in subsection (d) of Section
14    67.02 of the Civil  Administrative  Code  of  Illinois.   The
15    Department  shall  designate  those  institutions which shall
16    constitute the State Penitentiary System.
17        Pursuant to its power to establish new  institutions  and
18    facilities,  the  Department  may authorize the Department of
19    Central Management Services to accept bids from counties  and
20    municipalities for the construction, remodeling or conversion
21    of  a structure to be leased to the Department of Corrections
22    for the purposes of its serving as a correctional institution
23    or facility.  Such construction, remodeling or conversion may
24    be  financed  with  revenue  bonds  issued  pursuant  to  the
25    Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act by the  municipality  or
26    county.   The lease specified in a bid shall be for a term of
27    not less than the time needed to  retire  any  revenue  bonds
28    used to finance the project, but not to exceed 40 years.  The
29    lease  may  grant  to  the  State  the option to purchase the
30    structure outright.
31        Upon receipt of the bids, the Department may certify  one
32    or  more  of  the  bids and shall submit any such bids to the
33    General Assembly for approval.  Upon approval of a bid  by  a
34    constitutional   majority  of  both  houses  of  the  General
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 1    Assembly, pursuant to joint  resolution,  the  Department  of
 2    Central  Management Services may enter into an agreement with
 3    the county or municipality pursuant to such bid.
 4        (c-5)  To build and maintain regional juvenile  detention
 5    centers  and  to  charge  a  per  diem  to  the  counties  as
 6    established  by the Department to defray the costs of housing
 7    each minor in a center.  In this subsection (c-5),  "juvenile
 8    detention  center"  means  a  facility to house minors during
 9    pendency of trial who have been transferred from  proceedings
10    under  the  Juvenile  Court Act of 1987 to prosecutions under
11    the criminal laws of this State in  accordance  with  Section
12    5-4  of  the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, whether the transfer
13    was by operation of law or  permissive  under  that  Section.
14    The  Department  shall designate the counties to be served by
15    each regional juvenile detention center.
16        (d)  To  develop  and  maintain  programs   of   control,
17    rehabilitation and employment of committed persons within its
18    institutions.
19        (e)  To establish a system of supervision and guidance of
20    committed persons in the community.
21        (f)  To  establish  in cooperation with the Department of
22    Transportation to supply a sufficient number of prisoners for
23    use by the Department of Transportation to clean up the trash
24    and garbage  along  State,  county,  township,  or  municipal
25    highways  as  designated by the Department of Transportation.
26    The  Department  of  Corrections,  at  the  request  of   the
27    Department of Transportation, shall furnish such prisoners at
28    least  annually  for  a  period to be agreed upon between the
29    Director of Corrections and the Director  of  Transportation.
30    The  prisoners  used on this program shall be selected by the
31    Director of Corrections on whatever basis he deems proper  in
32    consideration  of their term, behavior and earned eligibility
33    to participate in such program - where they will  be  outside
34    of  the  prison  facility  but  still  in  the custody of the
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 1    Department of  Corrections.   Prisoners  convicted  of  first
 2    degree  murder,  or  a  Class X felony, or armed violence, or
 3    aggravated   kidnapping,    or   criminal   sexual   assault,
 4    aggravated criminal sexual abuse or a  subsequent  conviction
 5    for  criminal  sexual abuse, or forcible detention, or arson,
 6    or a prisoner adjudged  a  Habitual  Criminal  shall  not  be
 7    eligible  for  selection to participate in such program.  The
 8    prisoners shall remain as prisoners in  the  custody  of  the
 9    Department  of  Corrections and such Department shall furnish
10    whatever   security   is   necessary.   The   Department   of
11    Transportation shall furnish trucks  and  equipment  for  the
12    highway cleanup program and personnel to supervise and direct
13    the  program.  Neither  the Department of Corrections nor the
14    Department  of  Transportation  shall  replace  any   regular
15    employee with a prisoner.
16        (g)  To  maintain  records of persons committed to it and
17    to establish programs of research, statistics and planning.
18        (h)  To  investigate  the  grievances   of   any   person
19    committed  to  the  Department,  to  inquire into any alleged
20    misconduct  by  employees  or  committed  persons,   and   to
21    investigate  the  assets  of  committed  persons to implement
22    Section 3-7-6 of this Code; and for  these  purposes  it  may
23    issue  subpoenas  and  compel the attendance of witnesses and
24    the production of writings and papers, and may examine  under
25    oath  any  witnesses  who  may  appear  before  it;  to  also
26    investigate  alleged  violations of a parolee's or releasee's
27    conditions of parole or release; and for this purpose it  may
28    issue  subpoenas  and  compel the attendance of witnesses and
29    the production of  documents  only  if  there  is  reason  to
30    believe that such procedures would provide evidence that such
31    violations have occurred.
32        If  any person fails to obey a subpoena issued under this
33    subsection, the Director may apply to any  circuit  court  to
34    secure  compliance  with the subpoena.  The failure to comply
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 1    with the order of the court issued in response thereto  shall
 2    be punishable as contempt of court.
 3        (i)  To  appoint  and  remove  the  chief  administrative
 4    officers, and administer programs of training and development
 5    of  personnel  of  the  Department. Personnel assigned by the
 6    Department to be responsible for the custody and  control  of
 7    committed persons or to investigate the alleged misconduct of
 8    committed  persons  or  employees  or alleged violations of a
 9    parolee's  or  releasee's  conditions  of  parole  shall   be
10    conservators  of the peace for those purposes, and shall have
11    the full power of peace officers outside of the facilities of
12    the  Department  in  the  protection,  arrest,  retaking  and
13    reconfining of committed persons or  where  the  exercise  of
14    such   power  is  necessary  to  the  investigation  of  such
15    misconduct or violations.
16        (j)  To cooperate with other departments and agencies and
17    with local communities for the development of  standards  and
18    programs for better correctional services in this State.
19        (k)  To  administer  all  moneys  and  properties  of the
20    Department.
21        (l)  To report annually to the Governor on the  committed
22    persons, institutions and programs of the Department.
23        (l-5)  In  a  confidential annual report to the Governor,
24    the Department shall identify all inmate gangs by  specifying
25    each  current  gang's name, population and allied gangs.  The
26    Department shall further specify the number  of  top  leaders
27    identified  by  the  Department for each gang during the past
28    year, and the measures taken by the Department  to  segregate
29    each  leader  from  his  or  her  gang and allied gangs.  The
30    Department shall further report the current status of leaders
31    identified and segregated in  previous  years.   All  leaders
32    described  in the report shall be identified by inmate number
33    or  other  designation  to  enable  tracking,  auditing,  and
34    verification without revealing  the  names  of  the  leaders.
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 1    Because  this  report  contains  law enforcement intelligence
 2    information  collected  by  the  Department,  the  report  is
 3    confidential and not subject to public disclosure.
 4        (m)  To make all rules and regulations and  exercise  all
 5    powers and duties vested by law in the Department.
 6        (n)  To establish rules and regulations for administering
 7    a  system  of good conduct credits, established in accordance
 8    with Section 3-6-3, subject to review by the Prisoner  Review
 9    Board.
10        (o)  To  administer  the  distribution  of funds from the
11    State  Treasury  to  reimburse  counties  where  State  penal
12    institutions are located for the payment of assistant state's
13    attorneys' salaries under  Section  4-2001  of  the  Counties
14    Code.
15        (p)  To exchange information with the Department of Human
16    Services  and  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid for the
17    purpose  of  verifying  living  arrangements  and  for  other
18    purposes directly connected with the administration  of  this
19    Code and the Illinois Public Aid Code.
20        (q)  To establish a diversion program.
21        The  program  shall  provide a structured environment for
22    selected technical parole  or  mandatory  supervised  release
23    violators  and  committed persons who have violated the rules
24    governing their conduct while in work release.  This  program
25    shall  not  apply  to  those persons who have committed a new
26    offense while  serving  on  parole  or  mandatory  supervised
27    release or while committed to work release.
28        Elements  of  the program shall include, but shall not be
29    limited to, the following:
30             (1)  The staff of a diversion facility shall provide
31        supervision in accordance with required objectives set by
32        the facility.
33             (2)  Participants  shall  be  required  to  maintain
34        employment.
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 1             (3)  Each participant shall pay for room  and  board
 2        at the facility on a sliding-scale basis according to the
 3        participant's income.
 4             (4)  Each participant shall:
 5                  (A)  provide    restitution   to   victims   in
 6             accordance with any court order;
 7                  (B)  provide   financial   support    to    his
 8             dependents; and
 9                  (C)  make appropriate payments toward any other
10             court-ordered obligations.
11             (5)  Each   participant   shall  complete  community
12        service in addition to employment.
13             (6)  Participants   shall   take   part   in    such
14        counseling,   educational   and  other  programs  as  the
15        Department may deem appropriate.
16             (7)  Participants shall submit to drug  and  alcohol
17        screening.
18             (8)  The Department shall promulgate rules governing
19        the administration of the program.
20        (r)  To    enter   into   intergovernmental   cooperation
21    agreements  under  which  persons  in  the  custody  of   the
22    Department  may  participate in a county impact incarceration
23    program established under Section 3-6038 or 3-15003.5 of  the
24    Counties Code.
25        (r-5)  To   enter   into   intergovernmental  cooperation
26    agreements under  which  minors  adjudicated  delinquent  and
27    committed   to   the   Department  of  Corrections,  Juvenile
28    Division,  may  participate  in  a  county  juvenile   impact
29    incarceration program established under Section 3-6039 of the
30    Counties Code.
31        (r-10)  To  systematically  and  routinely  identify with
32    respect to each streetgang  active  within  the  correctional
33    system:  (1)  each active gang; (2) every existing inter-gang
34    affiliation or alliance; and (3) the current leaders in  each
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 1    gang.   The  Department shall promptly segregate leaders from
 2    inmates  who  belong  to  their  gangs  and   allied   gangs.
 3    "Segregate"  means  no  physical  contact  and, to the extent
 4    possible under the conditions  and  space  available  at  the
 5    correctional   facility,  prohibition  of  visual  and  sound
 6    communication.  For the purposes of  this  paragraph  (r-10),
 7    "leaders" means persons who:
 8             (i)  are members of a criminal streetgang;
 9             (ii)  with  respect  to other individuals within the
10        streetgang, occupy a position of  organizer,  supervisor,
11        or other position of management or leadership; and
12             (iii)  are   actively   and  personally  engaged  in
13        directing,   ordering,   authorizing,    or    requesting
14        commission   of   criminal  acts  by  others,  which  are
15        punishable as a  felony,  in  furtherance  of  streetgang
16        related   activity   both   within  and  outside  of  the
17        Department of Corrections.
18    "Streetgang",  "gang",  and  "streetgang  related"  have  the
19    meanings ascribed to them  in  Section  10  of  the  Illinois
20    Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
21        (s)  To  operate a super-maximum security institution, in
22    order to manage and supervise inmates who are  disruptive  or
23    dangerous  and  provide  for  the  safety and security of the
24    staff and the other inmates.
25        (t)  To monitor  any  unprivileged  conversation  or  any
26    unprivileged  communication,  whether  in person or  by mail,
27    telephone, or other means,  between  an  inmate  who,  before
28    commitment  to  the  Department, was a member of an organized
29    gang and any other person without the need to show  cause  or
30    satisfy  any  other  requirement  of law before beginning the
31    monitoring,  except   as   constitutionally   required.   The
32    monitoring  may  be  by  video,  voice,  or  other  method of
33    recording or by any other means.  As used in this subdivision
34    (1)(t), "organized gang" has the meaning ascribed  to  it  in
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 1    Section  10  of  the  Illinois  Streetgang  Terrorism Omnibus
 2    Prevention Act.
 3        As  used  in  this  subdivision   (1)(t),   "unprivileged
 4    conversation"   or   "unprivileged   communication"  means  a
 5    conversation or communication that is not  protected  by  any
 6    privilege recognized by law or by decision, rule, or order of
 7    the Illinois Supreme Court.
 8        (u)  To  do  all  other  acts  necessary to carry out the
 9    provisions of this Chapter.
10        (2)  The Department of Corrections shall  by  January  1,
11    1998, consider building and operating a correctional facility
12    within  100  miles of a county of over 2,000,000 inhabitants,
13    especially a facility designed to house juvenile participants
14    in the impact incarceration program.
15        (3)  The  Department  of  Corrections  shall  produce  an
16    educational video on the  realities  of  prison  life.   This
17    video shall be filmed by the Department of Corrections, shall
18    have a running time of approximately 30 minutes, and shall be
19    updated  and  refilmed  by the Department every 4 years.  The
20    Department of Corrections  shall  make  the  video  available
21    annually, without charge, to school districts and educational
22    administrators  throughout  the State as a tool to discourage
23    students from criminal behavior.
24    (Source: P.A. 88-311; 88-469; 88-670, eff.  12-2-94;  89-110,
25    eff.  1-1-96;  89-302,  eff.  8-11-95;  89-312, eff. 8-11-95;
26    89-390, eff.  8-20-95;  89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  89-626,  eff.
27    8-9-96;  89-688,  eff. 6-1-97; 89-689, eff. 12-31-96; revised
28    1-7-97.)
29        Section 95.  No acceleration or delay.   Where  this  Act
30    makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
31    text  that  is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
32    Section represented by multiple versions), the  use  of  that
33    text  does  not  accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
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 1    the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived  from
 2    any other Public Act.
 3        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 4    becoming law.".

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