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90_HB3597
730 ILCS 5/3-1-2 from Ch. 38, par. 1003-1-2
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a
stylistic change in definition of "correctional institution
or facility".
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1 AN ACT in relation to prison management reforms, amending
2 a named Act.
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 3-1-2 as follows:
7 (730 ILCS 5/3-1-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-1-2)
8 Sec. 3-1-2. Definitions. (a) "Chief Administrative
9 Officer" means the person designated by the Director to
10 exercise the powers and duties of the Department of
11 Corrections in regard to committed persons within a
12 correctional institution or facility, and includes the
13 superintendent of any juvenile institution or facility.
14 (b) "Commitment" means a judicially determined placement
15 in the custody of the Department of Corrections on the basis
16 of delinquency or conviction.
17 (c) "Committed Person" is a person committed to the
18 Department, however a committed person shall not be
19 considered to be an employee of the Department of Corrections
20 for any purpose, including eligibility for a pension,
21 benefits, or any other compensation or rights or privileges
22 which may be provided to employees of the Department.
23 (d) "Correctional Institution or Facility" means a any
24 building or part of a building where committed persons are
25 kept in a secured manner.
26 (e) "Department" means the Department of Corrections of
27 this State.
28 (f) "Director" means the Director of the Department of
29 Corrections.
30 (g) "Discharge" means the final termination of a
31 commitment to the Department of Corrections.
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1 (h) "Discipline" means the rules and regulations for the
2 maintenance of order and the protection of persons and
3 property within the institutions and facilities of the
4 Department and their enforcement.
5 (i) "Escape" means the intentional and unauthorized
6 absence of a committed person from the custody of the
7 Department.
8 (j) "Furlough" means an authorized leave of absence from
9 the Department of Corrections for a designated purpose and
10 period of time.
11 (k) "Parole" means the conditional and revocable release
12 of a committed person under the supervision of a parole
13 officer.
14 (l) "Prisoner Review Board" means the Board established
15 in Section 3-3-1(a), independent of the Department, to review
16 rules and regulations with respect to good time credits, to
17 hear charges brought by the Department against certain
18 prisoners alleged to have violated Department rules with
19 respect to good time credits, to set release dates for
20 certain prisoners sentenced under the law in effect prior to
21 the effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1977, to hear
22 requests and make recommendations to the Governor with
23 respect to pardon, reprieve or commutation, to set conditions
24 for parole and mandatory supervised release and determine
25 whether violations of those conditions justify revocation of
26 parole or release, and to assume all other functions
27 previously exercised by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board.
28 (m) Whenever medical treatment, service, counseling, or
29 care is referred to in this Unified Code of Corrections, such
30 term may be construed by the Department or Court, within its
31 discretion, to include treatment, service or counseling by a
32 Christian Science practitioner or nursing care appropriate
33 therewith whenever request therefor is made by a person
34 subject to the provisions of this Act.
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1 (n) "Victim" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
2 subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Bill of Rights for Victims
3 and Witnesses of Violent Crime Act.
4 (Source: P.A. 83-1433; 83-1499.)