HB 6640 — CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

Summary

Amends the State Facilities Closure Act. Creates the Correctional Facilities Panel. Provides that the Panel shall perform a detailed examination of the State's correctional facilities and the respective populations and workforces of the facilities. Sets forth the membership of the panel. Provides that no correctional facility managed or operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2007 average daily population or average daily workforce by more than 20% prior to the completion of the submission of the final report by the Correctional Facilities Panel. Effective immediately.

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The bill adds provisions regarding the establishment and function of the Correctional Facilities Panel, including a moratorium on closing correctional facilities until the Panel reports its findings.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-5

  State facility" does not include any facility under the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, including the Auditor General, or the judicial branch. → Correctional Facilities Panel" means the study panel created and authorized in Section 5-15 of this Act.

  This change introduces a definition for the Correctional Facilities Panel within existing law.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-12

  Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, no correctional facility managed or operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections may be closed, eliminated, or otherwise required to reduce its 2007 average daily population or average daily workforce by more than 20% prior to the completion of the required review by the Correctional Facilities Panel and submission of the panel’s final report as required in Section 5-15 of this Act.

  This establishes a moratorium on closing correctional facilities until the Panel has completed its review.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-15

  The Correctional Facilities Panel is hereby created and shall be comprised of the Director of the Department of Corrections, or his or her designee; 4 members of the General Assembly: one appointed by the President of the Senate, one appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, one appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives; 2 representatives of the employees who work within the State’s prisons, to be appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability; and 2 persons or representatives of organizations with expertise in prisons, correctional facilities, or prison populations, to be appointed by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

  This creates the Correctional Facilities Panel and outlines its membership.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-15

  The Panel is authorized to hold public hearings, take testimony, and request detailed and specific information relating to the inmate population, staff, or both of any individual correctional facility managed or operated by the State, as well as the State’s prison system at large.

  This grants the Panel authority to gather detailed information on correctional facilities.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-15

  The review conducted by the Panel must include, but not be limited to, a detailed composition of (i) current prison populations and their respective requirements for effective reform, (ii) the geographical location of inmate families and their respective needs, (iii) employee locations, staffing levels, and the demands being placed on prison staffs within the State, (iv) the physical condition of each of the State’s correctional facilities and their respective needs, (v) the potential necessity for a geriatric correctional facility in Illinois, and (vi) the economic impacts created, at both the State and local levels, by each of the State’s correctional facilities, with special attention given to any correctional facility recommended to be immediately or abruptly decommissioned and their respective populations moved throughout the remainder of the State’s prison system.

  This specifies the scope of the review the Panel must conduct.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-15

  The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall provide staff and administrative assistance to the Correctional Facilities Panel.

  This establishes the Commission's role in assisting the Panel.

• 30 ILCS 608/5-15

  Sixty days after submission of its final report to the General Assembly, the Correctional Facilities Panel shall be dissolved.

  This sets a time limit for the existence of the Panel following its reporting.

Action History

1. January 13, 2009

   Session Sine Die

2. May 13, 2008

   Referred to Rules Committee

3. May 13, 2008

   First Reading

4. May 09, 2008

   Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Shane Cultra

5. May 09, 2008

   Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Keith P. Sommer

Sponsors

• Keith P. Sommer · Cosponsor

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