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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 113
BY REPRESENTATIVE HARRISON
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To direct the Louisiana Sentencing Commission to study the feasibility of requiring an
offender to serve his term of imprisonment through home incarceration with the use
of electronic monitoring and to report its findings to the legislature prior to the
convening of the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, according to a study by the PEW Center on the States, Louisiana has
the highest incarceration rate in the United States; and
WHEREAS, with this high incarceration rate comes a high monetary cost that is
borne by the taxpayers in Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the mission of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections,
corrections services, is to enhance public safety through the safe and secure incarceration
of offenders, effective probation and parole supervision, and proven rehabilitative strategies
that successfully reintegrate offenders into society, as well as assisting individuals and
communities victimized by crime; and
WHEREAS, successful offender reentry and reintegration into the community is a
matter of critical importance to the public's safety, but reentry is often unsuccessful due to
the barriers offenders face including a lack of access to family and community support; and
WHEREAS, the ability of offenders to obtain employment and become productive
members of their communities is essential to reducing recidivism rates and home
incarceration with the option of electronic monitoring will allow the offender to successfully
reenter society by maintaining ties to his family and community and offering him an
opportunity to obtain employment; and
WHEREAS, home incarceration and electronic monitoring encourage successful
offender reentry, which may serve to reduce crime and the number of crime victims, and
ultimately ensure opportunities for safer communities; and ENROLLEDHCR NO. 113
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WHEREAS, home incarceration and electronic monitoring may also result in
significant savings to state and local criminal justice systems; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to research, study, and consider a number of factors
before implementing mandatory home incarceration and electronic monitoring in lieu of
traditional imprisonment, and those factors include but are not limited to determinations
made with regard to the type of offender who may be ordered to serve his sentence through
home incarceration, the cost and feasibility of implementing such a system, the impact on
the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, sheriffs, local governing authorities, and
the taxpayers of this state, and the potential impact of home incarceration on recidivism and
an offender's ability to successfully reenter society.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Louisiana Legislature does hereby
direct the Louisiana Sentencing Commission to study the feasibility of requiring an offender
to serve his term of imprisonment through home incarceration with the use of electronic
monitoring and to report its findings to the legislature prior to the convening of the 2013
Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE