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90_HB0990
730 ILCS 5/3-6-2.5 new
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that
prisoners in Illinois Department of Corrections facilities
shall not be allowed access to exercise equipment and shall
not be allowed to provide or receive instruction in boxing,
wrestling, or martial arts. Permits wardens to allow
prisoners to participate in jogging, basketball, stationary
exercise bicycling, supervised calisthenics, or other
physical activities that are not designed to increase muscle
mass and physical strength or improve fighting skills.
Provides for distribution of prison exercise equipment to the
correctional officers of the prison for use in the staff
recreation area and if the equipment is not used by the
correctional officers, it shall be distributed to local law
enforcement personnel.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Unified Code of Corrections by adding
2 Section 3-6-2.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
6 adding Section 3-6-2.5 as follows:
7 (730 ILCS 5/3-6-2.5 new)
8 Sec. 3-6-2.5. Exercise equipment and martial arts
9 programs prohibited.
10 (a) In this Section, "exercise equipment" means any
11 equipment or device that is designed to increase physical
12 strength of the person using it. "Exercise equipment"
13 includes equipment such as weight machines that utilize
14 weight plates, tension bands, or any similar device that
15 provides weight training resistance; barbells, dumbbells, and
16 similar free weight equipment; and any other device that the
17 Department of Corrections, in rules adopted under the
18 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, designates as enabling
19 a person to increase his or her muscle mass and physical
20 strength.
21 (b) A warden of a facility of the Department of
22 Corrections shall not allow either of the following:
23 (1) A prisoner access to exercise equipment;
24 (2) A prisoner to provide or receive instruction in
25 boxing, wrestling, any form of martial arts such as
26 karate and judo, or any other program that the
27 Department, in rules adopted under the Illinois
28 Administrative Procedure Act, designates as enabling a
29 person to improve his or her fighting skills.
30 (c) Nothing in this Section prohibits a warden of a
31 facility of the Department from allowing a prisoner to
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1 participate in jogging, basketball, stationary exercise
2 bicycling, supervised calisthenics, or other physical
3 activities that are not designed to increase muscle mass and
4 physical strength or improve fighting skills.
5 (d) Not later than 30 days after the effective date of
6 this amendatory Act of 1997, each warden of a correctional
7 institution under the control or supervision of the
8 Department of Corrections shall offer to the institution's
9 correctional officers for use in the staff recreation area
10 all exercise equipment and boxing, wrestling, and martial
11 arts paraphernalia being used by prisoners on the effective
12 date of this amendatory Act of 1997. The warden shall offer
13 any remaining equipment and paraphernalia to local law
14 enforcement agencies for use by law enforcement personnel.