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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 195
BY SENATOR CLAITOR
CRIME/PUNISHMENT. Authorizes the early release of non-risk geriatric inmates.
(8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 15:574.20(B), relative to medical parole eligibility; to provide2
for definitions; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 15:574.20(B) is amended and reenacted to read as follows: 5
ยง574.20. Medical parole program; eligibility; revocation 6
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B. The Board of Parole shall establish the medical parole program to be8
administered by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. An inmate eligible9
for consideration for release under the program shall be any person who, because of10
an existing medical or physical condition, is determined by the department to be11
within one of the following designations:12
(1) "Permanently incapacitated inmate" which shall mean any person who,13
by reason of an existing physical or medical condition, is so permanently and14
irreversibly physically incapacitated that he does not constitute a danger to himself15
or to society; or16
(2) "Terminally ill inmate" which shall mean any person who, because of an17 SB NO. 195
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existing medical condition, is irreversibly terminally ill, and who by reason of the1
condition does not constitute a danger to himself or to society.; or2
(3) "Geriatric" which shall mean any person who is seventy years of age3
or older and suffers from chronic infirmity, illness, or disease related to aging4
that has progressed such that the inmate is incapacitated to the extent he or she5
does not constitute a danger to himself or to society.6
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
Present law provides for an inmate eligible for consideration for release under the medical
parole program will be any person who, because of an existing medical or physical
condition, is determined by the department to be within one of the following designations:
(1)"Permanently incapacitated inmate" which will mean any person who, by reason of
an existing physical or medical condition, is so permanently and irreversibly
physically incapacitated that he does not constitute a danger to himself or to society;
or
(2)"Terminally ill inmate" which will mean any person who, because of an existing
medical condition, is irreversibly terminally ill, and who by reason of the condition
does not constitute a danger to himself or to society
Proposed law maintains present law and defines "geriatric" as any person who is 70 years
of age or older and suffers from chronic infirmity, illness, or disease related to aging that has
progressed such that the inmate is incapacitated to the extent he or she does not constitute
a danger to himself or to society.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 15:574.20(B))