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Title 18 Correctional Institutions and Department of Correction
Chapter 325 Department of Correction
- Sec. 18-78. Composition of department.
- Sec. 18-78a. Applicability of Uniform Administrative Procedure Act to department. Exceptions.
- Sec. 18-78b. Victim Services Unit. Duties and responsibilities.
- Sec. 18-79. Council of Correction.
- Sec. 18-80. Commissioner.
- Sec. 18-81. Duties of commissioner.
- Sec. 18-81a. Habeas corpus for person in custody of commissioner.
- Sec. 18-81b. Informational and educational experiences for the public.
- Sec. 18-81c. Connecticut Prison Association: Office space and telephone service.
- Sec. 18-81d. Medical and dental treatment of inmates under age of eighteen.
- Sec. 18-81e. Notification of victim of release of inmate from correctional facility.
- Sec. 18-81f. Notification of municipal official concerning status of temporary detention facility.
- Sec. 18-81g. (Formerly Sec. 17a-645). Community-based treatment facility for female offenders.
- Sec. 18-81h. Public safety committees established in municipalities with correctional facilities. Report.
- Sec. 18-81i. Storage of weapons.
- Sec. 18-81j. Annual notification of municipal official in municipalities with correctional facilities concerning capacity and inmate population in facility.
- Sec. 18-81k. Maintenance of good relations between department and communities surrounding correctional facilities.
- Sec. 18-81l. Criminal history records checks of correctional personnel.
- Sec. 18-81m. Notification re existence of standing criminal protective order upon release.
- Sec. 18-81n. Notification of municipal official concerning agreement for medical care of inmates.
- Sec. 18-81o. Notification of municipal official and public safety committee concerning agreement for placement of persons in correctional facility.
- Sec. 18-81p. Review of substance abuse detoxification and treatment programs. Reintegration of drug-dependent inmates into community.
- Sec. 18-81q. Return of unused prescription drugs dispensed in correctional facilities to vendor pharmacies. Requirements. Regulations.
- Sec. 18-81r. Ombudsman services.
- Sec. 18-81s. Pilot program for debit account telephone system.
- Sec. 18-81t. Quarterly report on disciplinary reports, inmate assaults, workers' compensation claims and inmate population density for each correctional facility.
- Sec. 18-81u. Use of computer with Internet access by certain inmates prohibited.
- Sec. 18-81v. Procedures for conducting metal detector searches of visitors.
- Sec. 18-81w. Development and implementation of reentry strategy.
- Sec. 18-81x. Funds for inmate educational services and reentry program initiatives.
- Sec. 18-81y. Lost property board.
- Sec. 18-81z. Development of risk assessment strategy.
- Sec. 18-81aa. Secure video connections for parole release hearings.
- Sec. 18-82. Administrators of correctional institutions: Appointment, removal and qualifications.
- Sec. 18-83. Acceptance of bequests, devises and gifts.
- Sec. 18-84. "Inmate" and "prisoner" defined.
- Sec. 18-84a. Discharge savings accounts. Regulations.
- Sec. 18-85. Compensation of inmates. Deposit in inmate's account. Disbursement priorities.
- Sec. 18-85a. Assessment of inmates for costs of incarceration. State's claim against inmate's property for repayment of costs of incarceration. Exempt property. Regulations.
- Sec. 18-85b. State's claim against proceeds of person's cause of action or person's inheritance for repayment of costs of incarceration.
- Sec. 18-85c. State's claim against person's estate for repayment of costs of incarceration.
- Sec. 18-86. Transfers between institutions of department.
- Sec. 18-86a. Contracts with other states for confinement of Connecticut inmates.
- Sec. 18-86b. Contracts with governmental and private vendors for supervision of state inmates outside the state.
- Sec. 18-86c. Contracts re release of inmates.
- Sec. 18-87. Transfers to other state institutions and to the Commissioner of Children and Families.
- Secs. 18-87a to 18-87f. Contracts with private agencies for: Halfway house handling of prerelease inmates; reentry services for paroled or discharged offenders. Early release: Pretrial inmates; sentenced inmates. Prison overcrowding emergency: Definitions; construction program, release of prisoners.
- Secs. 18-87g and 18-87h.
- Sec. 18-87i. Emergency correctional facility projects and large increases in correctional facility inmate populations: Notices, negotiated agreements between state and municipalities, arbitration.
- Sec. 18-87j. Criminal Justice Policy Advisory Commission.
- Sec. 18-87k. Powers and duties of commission.
- Sec. 18-87l. New Haven Armory not to be used to house prisoners or other detainees.
- Sec. 18-87m. Alternatives to Incarceration Advisory Committee: Membership, duties, report. Commissioner to implement alternatives to incarceration initiatives to reduce prison population.
- Sec. 18-88. (Formerly Sec. 18-14). Industrial activities. State agencies required to purchase necessary products from institution industries. Retail hobby stores.
- Sec. 18-88a. Correction Industries Revolving Fund, charge for fringe benefits prohibited.
- Sec. 18-89. (Formerly Sec. 18-9). Contracts for labor; public institutions.
- Sec. 18-90. (Formerly Sec. 18-10). Prisoners; employment restricted.
- Sec. 18-90a. Employment of inmates.
- Sec. 18-90b. Pilot program for inmate labor in private industry.
- Sec. 18-90c. Investigation of certain inmates re child support orders and arrearages.
- Sec. 18-91. (Formerly Sec. 18-16). Use of correctional institutions by United States. Removal of inmates to federal institutions.
- Sec. 18-91a. International transfer or exchange of prisoners.
- Sec. 18-92. Expiration of term on Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.
- Sec. 18-93. Rules re clothing, transportation, grants and loans to discharged persons.
- Sec. 18-94. (Formerly Sec. 17-16). Retention of diseased inmates in correctional or charitable institutions.
- Sec. 18-95. (Formerly Sec. 17-18). Compensation for injuries of inmates of state correctional and reformatory institutions.
- Sec. 18-96. (Formerly Sec. 18-22). Proceedings on discharge of mentally ill prisoners.
- Sec. 18-96a. Consideration of psychiatrist diagnosis in assessment of and providing mental health services to inmate with a mental illness. Mental health issues training for custodial staff. Agency collaboration re assistance to inmate with a mental illness upon release. Report re mental health services.
- Sec. 18-97. Confinement under a mittimus: Presentence confinement credit prior to July 1, 1981.
- Sec. 18-98. Confinement where bail unobtainable: Presentence confinement credit prior to July 1, 1981.
- Sec. 18-98a. Deduction of time for periods of employment.
- Sec. 18-98b. Outstandingly meritorious performance award.
- Sec. 18-98c. Good conduct credit for presentence confinement prior to July 1, 1981.
- Sec. 18-98d. Credit for presentence confinement.
- Sec. 18-99. Camp for community correctional center, Connecticut Correctional Institution, Cheshire, and School for Boys inmates.
- Sec. 18-99a. Creation and administration of school district within the Department of Correction. Unified School District #1.
- Sec. 18-99b. Powers of district. Cooperation with federal government.
- Sec. 18-100. Work-release and education-release programs. Transfer to correctional institution, halfway house, group home, mental health facility or community or private residence.
- Secs. 18-100a and 18-100b. Petty cash fund for loans for work-release program. Release of prisoners to an approved community residence; eligibility.
- Sec. 18-100c. Release of prisoners with definite sentences of two years or less to halfway house, group home, mental health facility or other approved community correction program.
- Sec. 18-100d. Supervision of persons convicted of a crime committed on or after October 1, 1994, required until expiration of sentence.
- Sec. 18-100e. Pilot zero-tolerance drug supervision program.
- Sec. 18-100f. Release of certain arrested persons being held pretrial.
- Sec. 18-100g. Release of aliens to immigration authorities.
- Sec. 18-101. Disposition of compensation.
- Sec. 18-101a. Furloughs.
- Sec. 18-101b. Residential stays at correctional facilities. Continuation in programs beyond discharge date.
- Sec. 18-101c. Special alternative incarceration unit. Program activities.
- Sec. 18-101d. Donald T. Bergin Correctional Institution.
- Sec. 18-101e. Calculation of disability retirement income for correction officers upon designation of extraordinary circumstances.
- Sec. 18-101f. Prohibition against disclosure of certain employee files to inmates under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Sec. 18-101g.
- Sec. 18-101h. Definitions.
- Sec. 18-101i. Community-based service programs established.
- Sec. 18-101j. Community correction service areas established.
- Sec. 18-101k. Funding.
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