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     242.18 Study of offender's background; rehabilitation 
  policy. 

    When a person has been committed to the commissioner of 
 corrections, the commissioner under rules shall forthwith cause 
 the person to be examined and studied, and investigate all of 
 the pertinent circumstances of the person's life and the 
 antecedents of the crime or other delinquent conduct because of 
 which the person has been committed to the commissioner, and 
 thereupon order the treatment the commissioner determines to be 
 most conducive to rehabilitation.  Persons convicted of crimes 
 shall not be detained in institutions for adjudicated 
 delinquents, nor shall delinquent children be detained in 
 institutions for persons convicted of crimes.  The court and the 
 prosecuting and police authorities and other public officials 
 shall make available to the commissioner of corrections all 
 pertinent data in their possession in respect to the case. 

    HIST: 1947 c 595 s 1; 1961 c 750 s 4; 1973 c 654 s 5; 1975 c 
 271 s 6; 1977 c 392 s 4; 1983 c 274 s 18; 1986 c 444 

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