GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1390

Short Title:  Alamance Work Release Pilot/Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Cole; Allred and Teague (Primary Sponsors).

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 29, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO EXTEND THE DATE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO REPORT ON THE WORK RELEASE PILOT BEING CONDUCTED AT THE ALAMANCE CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT THE PILOT PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Subsection (a) of Section 17.25 of S.L. 1998-212 reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The Department of Correction shall establish a pilot program for determining the benefits of work-release prison units by placing all eligible inmates in the Alamance Correctional Center on work release to the extent possible.  The Department shall provide a progress report on the pilot program to the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety by June 30, 2000.  The Department shall provide a final report to the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety by March 1, 2001, on the cost-effectiveness of the program. 
In order to make the pilot program fully operational, the Department shall either make repairs to an existing modular dormitory or transfer a modular dormitory from another facility to house additional work release inmates.  The Department shall also add a second modular dormitory to house work release inmates if such a dormitory is available within the Department's existing inventory, or shall construct such a dormitory using inmate labor in all phases of the construction process, with construction to be completed not later than January 1, 2000.  The Department shall use the most cost-effective plan for the housing of inmates in implementing the pilot program."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.