TITLE 42
State Affairs and Government
CHAPTER 42-56
Corrections Department
SECTION 42-56-29
§ 42-56-29 Receiving and orientation unit
Study of incoming prisoners.
To establish security standards which will safeguard society and which will
provide for the most efficient possible rehabilitation of individual prisoners,
there shall be established within the department of corrections a receiving and
orientation unit which shall receive all persons sentenced to the adult
correctional institutions for a term of imprisonment of more than one year.
Every person so sentenced shall be segregated for a period not to exceed thirty
(30) days during which period the person shall be studied and evaluated to
determine whether the person shall be a maximum, medium, or minimum security
risk and to develop a program of rehabilitation, education, and medical and
other care as shall be deemed necessary and appropriate to prepare the person
to become a useful member of society. During the period, a medical assessment,
and an assessment of rehabilitative needs shall be made of the person and the
results, together with the nature of the offense for which the person has been
committed, the previous criminal history, if any, the recommendations of the
department of the attorney general and of the sentencing court and the social
history of the person shall be studied and evaluated in determining the degree
of custodial care of the person, the rehabilitation program for the person, the
medical or other care that may be necessary and the spiritual and religious
guidance that shall be indicated by the preference of the person.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 168, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch.
296, § 1.)
