Sec. 18-101h. Definitions.
Sec. 18-101h. Definitions. As used in this part:
(a) "Department" means the Department of Correction.
(b) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Correction.
(c) "Community-based service programs" means residential or nonresidential programs provided by private, nonprofit community or locally based organizations, state
agencies or units of local government including the public-private resource expansion
project, which offer housing, transportation, employment and counseling services to
incarcerated, paroled or discharged offenders, victims of crime, persons charged with
a crime, persons diverted from the criminal process and families of offenders.
(d) "Residential programs" means those offered in "halfway houses," providing
twenty-four hour care, supervision, and supportive services to pretrial, incarcerated,
paroled or discharged offenders.
(e) "Nonresidential programs" means those programs providing daytime or episodic community correction services to pretrial, incarcerated, paroled or discharged
offenders and their families, or victims of crime and programs involving restitution or
community service to pretrial offenders. For the purposes of this subsection, "community service" means the placement of offenders in unpaid positions with nonprofit or
tax-supported agencies for the performance of a specified number of hours of work or
service within a given period of time, and "restitution" means the restoration by an
offender of a victim's losses through either payment of money or provision of services
to the victim or, with the concurrence of the victim, to a third party.
(P.A. 80-200, S. 1, 7; P.A. 82-383, S. 4, 7.)
History: P.A. 82-383 amended Subsec. (c) by adding "state agencies" and amended Subsec. (e) by including programs
involving restitution or community service in the definition of "nonresidential programs" and defining "community service"
and "restitution".