2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XIII CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 217 Department of Corrections
Section 217.378. Regimented discipline program (boot camp) established, rules--eligibility--sentence by court, when--probation, when--failure to complete program, effect.

217.378. 1. As used in this section, the term "Missouri regimented discipline program" means a program of institutional correctional alternatives in discipline, exercise, and treatment.

2. The department of corrections shall establish by regulation the Missouri regimented discipline program including rules determining how and when a defendant shall be admitted into or removed from the program.

3. Eligibility for the court to impose a sentence to the Missouri regimented discipline program requires:

(1) That the individual so sentenced is on felony probation at the time of the court's consideration, that the conditions of the probation have been violated, that the probationer is subject to revocation and that other community alternatives have been exhausted; or

(2) The court determines that in the absence of the Missouri regimented discipline program the individual would be committed to the department of corrections to serve a prison term; and

(3) The availability of space in the program which shall be determined by the department of corrections. If the court is advised that there is no space available, the court shall consider other authorized dispositions;

(4) That the individual so sentenced must be between the age of seventeen and twenty-five and shall not have a prior felony conviction.

4. Any time prior to one hundred twenty days after commitment of such defendant to the department, the department shall prepare and file with the circuit court a report on the progress of the defendant in the Missouri regimented discipline program.

5. If, within one hundred twenty days after commitment of the defendant, the court is advised by the department of corrections of the individual's successful completion of the regimented discipline program, the court shall cause the individual to be placed on probation prior to the expiration of the one-hundred-twenty-day period. Failure of the individual to complete the program shall be cause to void the right to be considered for probation on this sentence and the individual will serve the sentence prescribed.

(L. 1989 H.B. 128, et al. 1)

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