§ 35-38-3-6 — Classification of penal facilities and programs

Indiana § 35-38-3-6

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 38: PROCEEDINGS FOLLOWING DISMISSAL,
• Ch. 3: Commitment to the Department of Correction and

Text

(a) The department shall:
(1) classify all penal facilities and programs to which convicted
persons may be assigned for supervision or custodial care
according to:
(A) maximum, medium, or minimum security function; and
(B) treatment program available; and
(2) furnish the classifications to all judges with general criminal
jurisdiction.
(b) A maximum security assignment constitutes an assignment of a
convicted person to a penal facility and correctional program that are
designed to insure that the person remains within a walled or fenced
facility where entry and exit of any person occurs only through
department supervised gates and where periodic inmate population
accounting and supervision by the department occurs each day.
(c) A medium security assignment constitutes an assignment of a
convicted person to a penal facility and correctional program that are
designed to insure that if the person is permitted outside the supervised
gates of a walled or fenced facility, the department will provide
continuous staff supervision and the person will be accounted for
throughout the day.
(d) A minimum security assignment constitutes an assignment of a
convicted person to a work release center or program, to intermittent
service of a sentence, or to a program requiring weekly reporting to a
designated official. Assignment to minimum security need not involve
a penal facility.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.3.