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Ark. Code Ann. § 16-93-1203

Board of Corrections — Powers and duties

Acts 1993, No. 531, § 4; 1993, No. 548, § 4; 2005, No. 1994, § 287; 2019, No. 315, §§ 1312, 1313; 2019, No. 910, §§ 940, 941.

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 Division 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 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, divisions, 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 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.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.