JOINT STUDY ORDER ESTABLISHING THE COMMITTEE TO STUDY JAIL POPULATION, COSTS AND REIMBURSEMENT BY THE STATE
ORDERED, the Senate concurring, that:
1. The Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice shall conduct a study of county jail population, costs and reimbursement. The committee shall conduct the study during authorized interim committee meetings, except that the committee may hold one additional meeting to conclude its work.
2. The committee shall study:
A. Initiatives for regional cooperation and solutions in building county jails;
B. Population of county jails, overcrowding and growth;
C. State probation violations, where those violations should be served and who should pay for the resulting incarceration;
D. Probation options, graduated sanctions and probation officer case load;
E. Criminal court case loads, whether cases are being handled in a timely fashion and whether there are sufficient judicial resources allocated to handle the current case load;
F. Issues concerning female offenders in county jails;
G. State subsidies that support the operation of county jails and community corrections programs;
H. Alternative sentencing options and sentencing policies; and
I. The population that is being served and populations that are not served by the current county jail system.
3. The committee shall submit its report, together with any necessary implementing legislation, to the Legislature no later than November 6, 2002. The joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice matters is authorized to introduce a bill related to the report to the First Regular Session of the 121st Legislature.
Passed by the Senate April 3, 2002 and the House of Representatives April 3, 2002.
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