Brown SCR No. 173
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.