House Bill hb0617c2

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001           CS/CS/HB 617

        By the Council for Healthy Communities and Committee on
    Juvenile Justice and Representatives Harper, Gelber, Barreiro,
    Richardson, Peterman, Smith, Greenstein, Weissman, Slosberg,
    Bucher, Bullard, Fields, Heyman, Romeo, Gannon and McGriff



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to youthful offenders; amending

  3         s. 944.1905, F.S.; requiring that certain

  4         inmates who are less than a specified age be

  5         placed in specific correctional facilities and

  6         housed in separate dormitories; requiring that

  7         the Department of Corrections report to the

  8         Legislature on its compliance with the

  9         requirements for housing youthful offenders;

10         requiring that certain inmates who are less

11         than a specified age and who have no prior

12         juvenile adjudication be placed in facilities

13         for youthful offenders; providing for the

14         reassignment of an inmate to the general

15         population if the inmate threatens the safety

16         of other inmates or the correctional staff;

17         providing an effective date.

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

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21         Section 1.  Subsection (5) is added to section

22  944.1905, Florida Statutes, to read:

23         944.1905  Initial inmate classification; inmate

24  reclassification.--The Department of Corrections shall

25  classify inmates pursuant to an objective classification

26  scheme. The initial inmate classification questionnaire and

27  the inmate reclassification questionnaire must cover both

28  aggravating and mitigating factors.

29         (5)(a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this

30  section, the department shall assign to specific correctional

31  facilities all inmates who are less than 18 years of age and

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  1  who are not eligible for and have not been assigned to a

  2  facility for youthful offenders. Any such inmate who is less

  3  than 18 years of age shall be housed in a dormitory that is

  4  separate from inmates who are 18 years of age or older.

  5  Furthermore, the department shall provide any food service,

  6  education, training, and recreation for such inmate separately

  7  from inmates who are 18 years of age or older. The department

  8  shall report to the Legislature on compliance with this

  9  paragraph by April 1, 2002.

10         (b)  Any inmate who is less than 18 years of age, who

11  was less than 15 years of age at the time of his or her

12  offense, and who has no prior juvenile adjudication must be

13  placed in a facility for youthful offenders until the inmate

14  is 18 years of age.

15         (c)  Any inmate who is assigned to a facility under

16  paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) shall be removed and reassigned

17  to the general inmate population if his or her behavior

18  threatens the safety of other inmates or the correctional

19  staff.

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

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