197.010 Definitions for chapter. - Kentucky Statutes

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197.010 Definitions for chapter. Definitions as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Cabinet" means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet;
(2) "Classification" means the systematic assignment of a prisoner to a custody level, program, and penitentiary; (3) "Department" means Department of Corrections;
(4) "Eligible sexual offender" means a sexual offender for whom the sentencing court, department officials, or both have determined that he or she:
(a) Has demonstrated evidence of a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder, but not active psychosis or mental retardation; and (b) Is likely to benefit from the program; (5) "Penitentiaries" includes the state penal institutions for males at Eddyville, LaGrange, the Green River Correctional Complex, the Luther Luckett Correctional
Complex, the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women, the Northpoint Training
Center, the Roederer Correctional Complex, the Eastern Kentucky Correctional
Complex, the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex, Frankfort Career
Development Center, Blackburn Correctional Complex, and Bell County Forestry
Camp, together with the branches thereof, any private prison as provided by KRS
197.500, and any other similar institutions hereafter established; (6) "Sexual offender" means any person convicted of, pleading guilty to, or entering an Alford plea to a sex crime as defined in KRS 17.500; and (7) "State agency" means any department, board, commission, or agency of the state government. Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 230, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 182, sec. 21, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts
ch. 418, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1994.