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 1        AN ACT  in relation to corrections.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Department  of  Corrections  Law  of  the
 5    Civil  Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing
 6    Section 5-335 as follows:

 7        (20 ILCS 5/5-335) (was 20 ILCS 5/9.11a)
 8        Sec.  5-335.  In  the  Department  of  Corrections.   The
 9    Director of Corrections shall receive an annual salary as set
10    by  the  Governor  from  time  to  time  or  as  set  by  the
11    Compensation Review Board, whichever is greater.
12        The Assistant Director of Corrections - Juvenile Division
13    shall receive an annual salary as set by  the  Governor  from
14    time  to  time  or  as  set by the Compensation Review Board,
15    whichever is greater.
16        The Assistant Director of Corrections  -  Adult  Division
17    shall  receive  an  annual salary as set by the Governor from
18    time to time or as set  by  the  Compensation  Review  Board,
19    whichever is greater.
20        The Assistant Director of Corrections Gang Monitoring and
21    Control  Unit  is  to  receive an annual salary as set by the
22    Compensation Review Board.
23    (Source:  P.A.  91-25,  eff.  6-9-99;  91-239,  eff.  1-1-00;
24    revised 8-1-99.)

25        Section 10.  The Unified Code of Corrections  is  amended
26    by  changing  Sections  3-2-5,  3-2-6,  and  3-7-2 and adding
27    Section 3-6-2.5 as follows:

28        (730 ILCS 5/3-2-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-5)
29        Sec. 3-2-5. Organization of the Department.
 
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 1        (a)  There  shall  be  an  Adult  Division   within   the
 2    Department  which  shall  be  administered  by  an  Assistant
 3    Director   appointed   by   the   Governor  under  The  Civil
 4    Administrative Code of Illinois. The Assistant Director shall
 5    be under the direction of the Director.  The  Adult  Division
 6    shall be responsible for all persons committed or transferred
 7    to  the  Department  under  Sections  3-10-7 or 5-8-6 of this
 8    Code.
 9        (b)  There  shall  be  a  Juvenile  Division  within  the
10    Department  which  shall  be  administered  by  an  Assistant
11    Director  appointed  by  the   Governor   under   The   Civil
12    Administrative Code of Illinois. The Assistant Director shall
13    be under the direction of the Director. The Juvenile Division
14    shall  be  responsible  for  all  persons  committed  to  the
15    Juvenile  Division  of  the Department under Section 5-8-6 of
16    this Code or Section  5-10  of  the  Juvenile  Court  Act  or
17    Section 5-750 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
18        (c)  There  is  a Gang Monitoring and Control Unit within
19    the Department that is to be  administered  by  an  Assistant
20    Director   appointed   by   the   Governor  under  the  Civil
21    Administrative Code of Illinois.  The Assistant  Director  is
22    under the direction of the Director.  The Gang Monitoring and
23    Control    Unit  is  responsible  for  working  with the Gang
24    Monitoring and Control  Advisory  Committee  to  develop  new
25    programs  and to coordinate existing programs for the control
26    of gangs within State correctional facilities.  In  addition,
27    the  Gang  Monitoring  and  Control  Unit  is responsible for
28    working with the Adult Division and the Juvenile Division  to
29    monitor the effectiveness of gang control programs.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-590, eff. 1-1-99.)

31        (730 ILCS 5/3-2-6) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-6)
32        Sec. 3-2-6.  Advisory Boards. (a) There shall be an Adult
33    Advisory Board and a Juvenile Advisory Board each composed of
 
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 1    11  persons,  one of whom shall be a senior citizen age 60 or
 2    over, appointed by the Governor to  advise  the  Director  on
 3    matters   pertaining   to   adult   and   juvenile  offenders
 4    respectively. The members of the Boards  shall  be  qualified
 5    for their positions by demonstrated interest in and knowledge
 6    of  adult  and  juvenile  correctional  work and shall not be
 7    officials of the State in any  other  capacity.  The  members
 8    first  appointed  under  this  amendatory   Act of 1984 shall
 9    serve for a term of 6 years and shall be appointed as soon as
10    possible after the effective date of this amendatory  Act  of
11    1984.   The  members of the Boards now serving shall complete
12    their terms as appointed, and  thereafter  members  shall  be
13    appointed  by  the  Governor to terms of 6 years. Any vacancy
14    occurring  shall  be  filled  in  the  same  manner  for  the
15    remainder of the term. The Director of  Corrections  and  the
16    Assistant    Directors,    Adult   and   Juvenile   Divisions
17    respectively, for the 2 Boards, shall be  ex-officio  members
18    of  the  Boards. Each Board shall elect a chairman from among
19    its appointed members. The Director shall serve as  secretary
20    of  each  Board.  Members  of  each Board shall serve without
21    compensation but shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily
22    incurred in the performance of their duties. Each Board shall
23    meet quarterly  and  at  other  times  at  the  call  of  the
24    chairman. At the request of the Director, the Boards may meet
25    together.
26        (b)  The  Boards  shall  advise  the  Director concerning
27    policy matters and programs of the Department with regard  to
28    the  custody, care, study, discipline, training and treatment
29    of persons in the State correctional institutions and for the
30    care and supervision of persons released on parole.
31        (c)  There shall be a Subcommittee on Women Offenders  to
32    the Adult Advisory Board.  The Subcommittee shall be composed
33    of  3  members  of  the Adult Advisory Board appointed by the
34    Chairman who shall designate one member as  the  chairman  of
 
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 1    the  Subcommittee.   Members  of the Subcommittee shall serve
 2    without compensation but shall  be  reimbursed  for  expenses
 3    necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties.  The
 4    Subcommittee  shall  meet no less often than quarterly and at
 5    other times at the call of its chairman.
 6        The Subcommittee shall advise the  Adult  Advisory  Board
 7    and  the  Director  on all policy matters and programs of the
 8    Department  with  regard  to  the   custody,   care,   study,
 9    discipline,  training  and  treatment  of  women in the State
10    correctional institutions and for the care and supervision of
11    women released on parole.
12        (d)  There is a  Gang  Monitoring  and  Control  Advisory
13    Committee  to  the  Assistant Director of the Gang Monitoring
14    and Control Unit.   The  Advisory  Committee  consists  of  8
15    members,  2  each  appointed  by the President of the Senate,
16    Minority Leader of  the  Senate,  Speaker  of  the  House  of
17    Representatives,  and  the  Minority  Leader  of the House of
18    Representatives.  A  chairman  is  to  be  elected  from  the
19    membership  of  the Committee.  Members of the Committee must
20    have had at least 5 years of experience  in  the  control  of
21    gangs  while  working  in the fields of penology, corrections
22    work, law enforcement, sociology, law  education,  or  social
23    work.    The  members of the Advisory Committee are to review
24    current Department programs that seek to eliminate  gangs  in
25    correctional   facilities,   are  to  research  gang  control
26    programs in other state  and  federal  facilities,  and  make
27    recommendations   to  the  Assistant  Director  of  the  Gang
28    Monitoring and Control Unit regarding new programs  aimed  at
29    reducing  gang  influence  in  State correctional facilities.
30    Each member of the Committee is  to  receive  $200  for  each
31    meeting of the Committee and is to be reimbursed for expenses
32    incurred  to  attend meetings of the Advisory Committee.  The
33    Department is to include in its annual report to the  General
34    Assembly   a   summary   of   the  Committee's  findings  and
 
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 1    recommendations.
 2    (Source: P.A. 85-624.)

 3        (730 ILCS 5/3-6-2.5 new)
 4        Sec. 3-6-2.5.  Immersible heating coils prohibited.  Each
 5    chief  administrative  officer  of  an  Adult  Department  of
 6    Corrections maximum security facility may not allow committed
 7    persons to have access to heating elements including, but not
 8    limited  to,  immersible  heating  coils  commonly  known  as
 9    "stingers".

10        (730 ILCS 5/3-7-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-2)
11        Sec. 3-7-2. Facilities.
12        (a)  All institutions and facilities  of  the  Department
13    shall  provide  every  committed person with access to toilet
14    facilities, barber facilities, bathing  facilities  at  least
15    once  each  week,  a library of legal materials and published
16    materials including newspapers and magazines approved by  the
17    Director.   A  committed person may not receive any materials
18    that the Director deems pornographic.
19        (b)  (Blank).
20        (c)  All institutions and facilities  of  the  Department
21    shall  provide facilities for every committed person to leave
22    his cell for at least one hour  each  day  unless  the  chief
23    administrative officer determines that it would be harmful or
24    dangerous  to  the  security  or safety of the institution or
25    facility.
26        (d)  All institutions and facilities  of  the  Department
27    shall  provide  every  committed  person with a wholesome and
28    nutritional  diet  at  regularly  scheduled  hours,  drinking
29    water, clothing adequate for the season,  bedding,  soap  and
30    towels and medical and dental care.
31        (e)  All  institutions  and  facilities of the Department
32    shall permit every committed person to send  and  receive  an
 
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 1    unlimited  number  of  uncensored letters, provided, however,
 2    that the Director may order that mail be inspected  and  read
 3    for  reasons  of  the  security,  safety  or  morale  of  the
 4    institution or facility.
 5        (f)  All  of  the  institutions  and  facilities  of  the
 6    Department  shall  permit  every  committed person to receive
 7    visitors, except in case of abuse of the  visiting  privilege
 8    or when the chief administrative officer determines that such
 9    visiting  would  be  harmful  or  dangerous  to the security,
10    safety or morale of the institution or facility.   The  chief
11    administrative  officer  shall  have  the  right  to restrict
12    visitation to  non-contact  visits  for  reasons  of  safety,
13    security,   and   order,   including,  but  not  limited  to,
14    restricting contact visits for committed persons  engaged  in
15    gang  activity.  No  committed  person  in  a  super  maximum
16    security  facility  or on disciplinary segregation is allowed
17    contact visits.  Any committed person classified as  C  grade
18    or  any  person  found  in possession of illegal drugs or who
19    fails a drug test may not be permitted contact visits  for  a
20    period of at least 6 months.
21        (g)  All  institutions  and  facilities of the Department
22    shall permit religious ministrations  and  sacraments  to  be
23    available  to  every  committed  person,  but  attendance  at
24    religious services shall not be required.
25        (h)  Within   90   days  after  December  31,  1996,  the
26    Department   shall   prohibit   the    use    of    curtains,
27    cell-coverings,  or any other matter or object that obstructs
28    or otherwise impairs the line  of  vision  into  a  committed
29    person's cell.
30    (Source:  P.A.  89-609,  eff.  1-1-97;  89-659,  eff. 1-1-97;
31    89-688, eff.  6-1-97;  89-689,  eff.  12-31-96;  90-14,  eff.
32    7-1-97.)

33        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 
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 1    becoming law.

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