§ 3-303. Comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services

   (a) Commissioner's duties. -- The Commissioner shall:

   (1) develop comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services; and

   (2) make these services available to inmates of a prerelease unit for women.

(b) Prerelease services. -- The comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services shall:

   (1) assist inmates in improving their education, upgrading vocational skills, and obtaining suitable employment;

   (2) provide inmates with the opportunity to strengthen family and community relationships through extended family leave;

   (3) assist inmates in improving their physical and mental health and reducing any tendency to abuse alcohol or drugs; and

   (4) provide appropriate counseling, instruction, supervision, and medical and psychological treatment as necessary to help inmates achieve stable and productive roles in society.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 678C(c)(1), (2); 1999, ch. 54, § 2; 2007, ch. 5, § 7.