CORRECTIONS IMPACT STATEMENT

BR# 1480

Bill Number: HB 409

Subject: AN ACT relating to placing inmates on home incarceration

Sponsor(s): Rep Hoover

Introduction Date:1/29/04 Assignment Date:

Due Date:

Text of Legislation:

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to permit convicts selected by the Department of Corrections to serve the final 6 months of their sentence on home incarceration with a monitoring device; permit the inmate to be charged with escape if they violate the provisions of home incarceration

Summary Impact -- Indicate affected service levels, workloads, staff and program areas (describe any coordination issues with other state/external agencies or groups):

This bill has two significant features: 1) It provides an inmate with an opportunity to establish employment contacts or enroll in community based education or rehabilitation programs for successful re-entry to the community; and, 2) it creates an alternative sentencing feature to be used at the end of an offender’s sentence. Overall this bill will reduce the Department’s operation costs.
Inmates who are eligible are not sex offenders nor violent offenders but offenders who are considered low risk offenders that meet criteria to be established through administrative regulation. In FY 03 there were 2,790 inmates who served out who were either Class C or D inmates and not sex offenders. Some portion of these inmates would be eligible for this program.
The move from institutional confinement to home incarceration may lessen the work load within a detention facility and increase supervision within the community. Considering the limited pool of offenders that may be eligible to be placed on home incarceration, it is unlikely that the impact on community resources will be significant.

Fiscal Impact -- Also include increased/decreased administrative cost and whether new fund sources would be required (identify fund sources, and GOPM staff person consulted):

The daily cost to incarcerate is approximately $47.00 dollars a day and the daily cost of supervision is $3.43. Therefore, for each person that is placed on home incarceration the Department is expected to generate a savings of $43.57 dollars per person. For each inmate who is released to home incarceration for the full 60 days prior to serving out his sentence, the savings would be $2,612.20 to the Department less the cost of monitoring.
NOTE: In all cases, consideration should be given to the cumulative impact of all bills that increase the felon population or that impose new obligations on the Department of Corrections

Will Administrative Regulations be required or will existing regulations need revision? Yes No

Approved By: Date

Title: Commissioner

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