Sec. 18-101h. Definitions. - Connecticut Statutes

      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".