HB520 Alabama 2021 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Corrections, to provide deduction of a prisoners sentence upon completion of qualifying programs, require DOC to adopt rules for administration of education incentive time, require approval of rules by Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, Secs. 14-9-100 to 14-9-107, incl., added; Sec. 29-2-20 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a prisoner does not receive a deduction in his or her sentence for the successful completion of academic, vocational, risk-reducing, or apprenticeship programs</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide a prisoner with a deduction in his or her sentence upon a successful completion of a qualifying academic, vocational, risk-reducing, or apprenticeship program in certain circumstances</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require the Department of Corrections, with the approval of the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, to adopt rules for the administration of education incentive time</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to corrections; to add a new Article 4 to Title 14 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for a deduction of a prisoner's sentence upon completion of qualifying programs in certain circumstances; to require the Department of Corrections, with the approval of the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, to adopt rules for the administration of education incentive time; to amend Section 29-2-20, Code of Alabama 1975, to require the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee to approve rules regarding the administration of education incentive time. </p>

Subjects

Corrections Department