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[ House Amendment 001 ]

90_HB0763

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

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