Senate Bill sb0322c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                            CS for SB 322

    By the Committee on Criminal Justice and Senator Geller





    307-1495-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to youthful offenders; amending

  3         s. 958.11, F.S.; providing for certain inmates

  4         to be assigned to a facility for youthful

  5         offenders as a residential assignment if the

  6         inmate's mental or physical vulnerability may

  7         jeopardize the inmate's safety; providing

  8         legislative intent with respect to housing all

  9         inmates under a specified age in facilities for

10         youth offenders; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (6) of section 958.11, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         958.11  Designation of institutions and programs for

17  youthful offenders; assignment from youthful offender

18  institutions and programs.--

19         (6)  The department may assign to a youthful offender

20  facility, as a residential assignment, any inmate, except a

21  capital or life felon, whose age does not exceed 19 years but

22  who does not otherwise meet the criteria of this section, if

23  the Assistant Secretary for Youthful Offenders determines that

24  such inmate's mental or physical vulnerability may would

25  substantially or materially jeopardize his or her safety in a

26  nonyouthful offender facility. It is the intent of the

27  Legislature that any inmate whose age does not exceed 18 years

28  be housed in a facility for youthful offenders, unless the

29  inmate presents an unacceptable disciplinary problem at that

30  facility. Assignments made under this subsection shall be

31  included in the department's annual report.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                            CS for SB 322
    307-1495-01




  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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  3          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  4                         Senate Bill 322

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  6  -     Provides that it is the Legislature's intent that the
          Department of Corrections assign all inmates under the
  7        age of 18 to a youthful offender facility as a
          residential placement, regardless of level of crime or
  8        length of sentence.

  9  -     Allows the Department of Corrections to remove an inmate
          under 18 years of age assigned to a youthful offender
10        facility under this bill for disciplinary problems.

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