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HR 203 Original 2015 Regular Session Price
Requests the Reentry Advisory Council (council) to identify strategies to afford offenders committed
to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) who 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 DPS&C in need of such
services, whether confined to a state or parish correctional facility, all to facilitate successful reentry
upon release.
Requests DPS&C secretary, pursuant to strategies identified by the council, to take necessary steps
to extend the inmate rehabilitation and workforce development program to offenders committed to
the custody of the department who are confined in parish correctional facilities and to provide needed
mental health care for all committed to the DPS&C in need of such services, whether confined to
a state or parish correctional facility.
Requires that the DPS&C secretary, with the assistance of the council, include in the annual report
on or before March first of each year to the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal
Justice and the Senate Committee on Judiciary B, the measures taken pursuant to this Resolution.