RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
HR 203 2015 Regular Session Price
Requests the Reentry Advisory Council (council) to identify strategies to afford offenders
committed to the Dept. 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 in a state or parish correctional
facility, all to facilitate successful reentry upon release.
Requests the secretary of DPS&C, 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 secretary of DPS&C, 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.