The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Brown SCR No.
Requests the Reentry Advisory Council (council) to identify strategies to afford offenders
committed to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSC) that are confined in
parish correctional facilities the support necessary to enhance education, job skills and training,
and needed behaviors and to provide needed mental health care for all committed to the DPSC in
need of such services, whether confined to a state or parish correctional facility, all to facilitate
successful reentry upon release.
Requests DPSC secretary, pursuant to strategies identified by the council, to take necessary steps
to extend the inmate rehabilitation and workforce development program to offenders committee
to the custody of the department that are confined in parish correctional facilities pursuant to the
Reentry Advisory Council and Offender Rehabilitation Workforce Development Act and to
provide needed mental health care for all committed to the DPSC in need of such services,
whether confined to a state or parish correctional facility.
Requires that the DPSC secretary, with the assistance of the council, include in the annual report
to the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice and the Senate Committee on
Judiciary B required pursuant to R.S. 15:1199.5(F) all actions taken to provide support necessary
to enhance education, job skills and training, and needed behaviors to facilitate successful reentry
upon release to afford offenders committed to the DPSC that are confined in parish correctional
facilities and all actions taken to provide needed mental health care for all committed to the
DPSC in need of such services, whether confined to a state or parish correctional facility.