Enacts the "correctional abuse accountability act"; requires actions by the department if a correctional officer seriously harms or is responsible for the death of an incarcerated individual.
Relates to incarcerated individual interviews by the state board of parole; requires such parole board interviews of incarcerated individuals to be conducted in person and in the correctional facility where such incarcerated individual is housed.
Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide a nonpartisan, peer-led civic engagement program for incarcerated individuals in all correctional facilities in this state which shall be completed by each incarcerated individual within one year prior to their release.
Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitate incarcerated individuals voter registration and voting.
Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitate incarcerated individuals voter registration and voting.
Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility, but corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications used for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.
Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility, but corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications used for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.