RS 15:571.32 Alternatives to traditional imprisonment; first offenders - Louisiana Statutes

§571.32.  Alternatives to traditional imprisonment; first offenders

A.  Not later than October 1, 1990, contingent upon legislative appropriation, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall implement a pilot project in using an alternative mode of incarceration to traditional imprisonment for executing the sentences of first offenders.  The project shall provide for active monitoring of the prisoner as well as for intense probation.

B.(1)  The pilot project undertaken pursuant to this Section shall be implemented in not less than three areas of the state.  Each area shall be unique from the others regarding its location and the size of its population.

(2)  The pilot project undertaken pursuant to this Section may include the use of electronic and telephone monitoring devices.

C.(1)  The pilot project undertaken pursuant to this Section shall be evaluated with regard to security, beneficial and detrimental effects on the prisoner, projected probable effects on deterrence, cost, labor intensiveness, and other relevant measures of effectiveness.  Such evaluation shall provide the required information on a project basis as well as in comparison with traditional imprisonment.

(2)  All evaluations shall be presented to the members of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice, and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Section C, as well as the governor.  The first such evaluation shall be reported not later than thirty days prior to the first day of the 1991 Regular Session of the Legislature.

Acts 1990, No. 553, §1.