196.705 Administration of programs by Kentucky State Corrections Commission -- Purposes of programs. - Kentucky Statutes

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196.705 Administration of programs by Kentucky State Corrections Commission -- Purposes of programs. The purposes of the commission and community corrections programs shall be to:
(1) Provide the judicial system with sentences to be used in lieu of incarceration;
(2) Develop community-based sentencing alternatives to incarceration for certain individuals convicted of a felony; (3) Monitor and enforce the payment of restitution to victims of crime and the community through financial reimbursement, community service, or both; (4) Stimulate local involvement in community corrections programs to assure that they are specifically designed to meet the needs of the sentencing court and the
community; and (5) Reduce expenditures of state funds by increasing community-based sentencing, reducing the rate of recidivism, and reducing revocations of probation and parole. Effective: June 24, 2003
History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 227, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1994.