41-1613. Community correctional centers;
powers and duties; allocation of compensation; absence without
leave; classification; notice; hearing; location
A. The director may:
1. Establish and operate facilities to be known as community correctional centers.
2. Transfer inmates whose terms of imprisonment have been fixed from the state
prisons and facilities of the department to community correctional centers and place
inmates placed on community supervision in such centers.
B. The director shall make rules for the government of the community correctional
centers in the management of their affairs. The provisions of sections 31-254 and
41-1624.01 do not apply to compensation received by inmates or inmates placed on
community supervision assigned to community correctional centers. The department is
authorized to charge and collect one-third of any compensation received by an inmate or
an inmate placed on community supervision living at the center for room and board. The
department is further authorized to collect and forward to the court or other person
authorized to receive court ordered restitution an amount not to exceed one-third of the
compensation received by an inmate or an inmate placed on community supervision assigned
to the center. Other than for room and board or court ordered restitution, compensation
of the inmate or an inmate placed on community supervision received by the department
while the inmate or an inmate placed on community supervision is assigned to the center
shall be credited to the inmate's or an inmate placed on community supervision's account.
C. The purpose of community correctional centers is to provide housing,
supervision, counseling and other correctional programs for persons committed to the
department.
D. Absence without leave from a community correctional center or intentional
failure of an inmate to return from a temporary leave granted under the provisions of
this section is a class 5 felony.
E. Prior to incurring any obligation for the establishment of a community
correctional center, the department shall give at least sixty days' written notice to the
governing body of the county for an unincorporated area, city, town and school district
affected. The county, city, town and school district may contest establishment of a
community correctional center by written objection filed with the department within
thirty days after receiving notice and may request a hearing pursuant to chapter 6,
article 6 of this title.
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