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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, and Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 93 - Probation and Parole
Subchapter 12 - Community Correction
§ 16-93-1203. Board of Corrections -- Powers and duties
Universal Citation: AR Code § 16-93-1203 (2017)
- The Board of Corrections shall have the following duties and responsibilities with regard to community correction programming:
- (1) Establish community correction programs to which eligible offenders may be assigned as a condition of probation, sentenced to by the trial court pursuant to this subchapter, paroled to upon release from incarceration, or transferred to after incarceration in the Department of Correction;
- (2) Notify the trial courts of the state having criminal jurisdiction of the availability of certified and approved community correction programs;
- (3) Establish standards for the monitoring, auditing, and certification of community correction programs;
- (4) Establish rules and regulations relating to the operation of community correction programs and the supervision of eligible offenders participating therein;
- (5) Promote cooperation among the courts and various law enforcement and correctional agencies of this state in the implementation of community correction programs;
- (6) Direct the departments and other entities involved in the implementation of community correction options in a manner that will promote the safety and welfare of the people of this state;
- (7) Establish rules, regulations, and procedures which shall be required or deemed appropriate for the implementation and ongoing operation of community correction; and
- (8) Establish minimum standards of eligibility and certification processes for all community correction programs eligible to receive offenders under this subchapter.
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