Sec. 1. The department shall, after consulting with the secretary of education and the Indiana commission on vocational and technical education of the department of workforce development, implement academic and vocational education curricula and programs for confined offenders, by utilizing qualified personnel employed by the department or by arranging for instruction to be given by public or private educational agencies in Indiana. The department shall include special education programs, which shall be governed under IC 20-35-2. To provide funding for development and implementation of academic and vocational education curricula and programs, the department may accept gifts and apply for and receive grants from any source.
Ind. Code § 11-10-5-1
Implementation of academic and vocational education curricula and programs; funding
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Pierce v. State Department of Correction (2008)
Most recently applied in Pierce v. State Department of Correction (April 2008)
As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.3
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.