Full Text of SB2095 96th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 20 as follows:
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| (730 ILCS 125/20) (from Ch. 75, par. 120)
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| Sec. 20. Cost and expense; commissary fund.
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| (a) The cost and expense of keeping, maintaining and | 9 |
| furnishing
the jail of each county, and of keeping and | 10 |
| maintaining the prisoner thereof,
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| by law, shall be paid from the county treasury,
the account | 12 |
| therefor being first settled and allowed by the county board.
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| The county board may require convicted persons confined in | 14 |
| its jail to
reimburse the county for the expenses incurred by | 15 |
| their incarceration to
the extent of their ability to pay for | 16 |
| such expenses. The warden of the jail
shall establish by | 17 |
| regulation criteria for a reasonable deduction from money
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| credited to any account of an inmate to defray the costs to the | 19 |
| county for an
inmate's medical care. The State's Attorney
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| the county in which such jail is located may, if requested by | 21 |
| the County
Board, institute civil actions in the circuit court | 22 |
| of the county in which
the jail is located to recover from such | 23 |
| convicted confined persons the
expenses incurred by their |
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| confinement. The funds recovered shall
be paid
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| treasury.
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| (a-5) Upon notification from the Clerk of the Circuit Court | 4 |
| of an outstanding fine, restitution, or costs imposed by the | 5 |
| court on a jail inmate, the warden of the jail may, at any time | 6 |
| prior to release of the inmate, deduct from money credited to | 7 |
| any account of the inmate an amount to pay or reduce the | 8 |
| outstanding balance. The warden of the jail shall establish by | 9 |
| regulation criteria for deduction from money credited to any | 10 |
| account of an inmate to pay or reduce the amount outstanding on | 11 |
| a fine, restitution, or costs imposed by the court on the | 12 |
| inmate. The regulation shall comply with any withholding | 13 |
| restrictions otherwise provided by law. The inmate shall be | 14 |
| provided with written notice of the amount of any deduction. | 15 |
| There shall also be prominent notice by signage at any location | 16 |
| where the warden of the jail or jail employees receive funds | 17 |
| for deposit into an inmate's account, that funds in an inmate's | 18 |
| account may be used to pay fines, restitution, or costs imposed | 19 |
| on the inmate by a court. Any person providing funds for an | 20 |
| inmate's account shall be notified in writing when the funds | 21 |
| are provided, that funds in an inmate's account may be used to | 22 |
| pay fines, restitution, or costs imposed on the inmate by a | 23 |
| court. | 24 |
| (b) When a prisoner is released from the county jail after | 25 |
| the completion
of his or her sentence and has money credited to | 26 |
| his or her account in the
commissary fund, the sheriff or a |
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| person acting on the authority of the sheriff
must mail a check | 2 |
| in the amount credited to the prisoner's account to the
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| prisoner's last known address. If after 30 days from the date | 4 |
| of mailing of
the
check, the check is returned undelivered, the | 5 |
| sheriff must transmit the amount
of the check to the
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| treasurer for deposit into the commissary fund. Nothing in this
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| subsection (b) constitutes a forfeiture of the prisoner's right | 8 |
| to claim the
money accredited to his or her account after the | 9 |
| 30-day period.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-288, eff. 1-1-00.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 |
| becoming law.
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