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Title: Authorizing Qualified Inmate Transfer to Pre-Release Centers
Signed by Governor Ed Rendell
Title: Authorizing Qualified Inmate Transfer to Pre-Release Centers
Vote to pass a bill that expands prerelease options for inmates with minimum sentences.
-Authorizes inmates who are within 18 months of completing their minimum sentences, when they are committed to the supervision of the department, to move to a prerelease center, provided the inmate has no outstanding detainers (Sec. 1). -Requires that a public hearing be held when an inmate convicted of an offense under the Pennsylvania Code on Murder and Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances is released to the group-based home provider, according to the following rules (Sec. 1):
Title: Authorizing Qualified Inmate Transfer to Pre-Release Centers