Bill Text: NJ A816 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits DOC and other public entities from entering into contracts with for-profit, private correctional facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A816 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A816-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
219th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ANTHONY S. VERRELLI
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits DOC and other public entities from entering into contracts with for-profit, private correctional facilities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning private correctional facilities and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. As used in this act,
"Private correctional facility" means any for-profit private facility that provides for the detention or custody of inmates pursuant to a contract or other agreement with a public entity.
"Public entity" means the Department of Corrections, the Juvenile Justice Commission, a county correctional facility, a county juvenile detention facility, or any other State or county agency.
b. Following the effective date of this act, a public entity shall not enter into, renew, or extend the terms of a contract or other agreement with a private correctional facility to provide for the detention or custody of inmates.
c. The provisions of this section shall not apply to non-profit residential community release programs contracted by the Department of Corrections to provide for the care, custody, subsistence, treatment, education, training, or welfare of inmates pursuant to P.L.1999, c.243 (C.30:4-91.9 et seq.).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits public entities in New Jersey from entering into a contract or other agreement with a for-profit, private correctional facility to provide for the detention or custody of inmates.
The bill defines a "public entity" as the Department of Corrections, the Juvenile Justice Commission, a county correctional facility, a county juvenile detention facility, or any other State or county agency. A "private correctional facility" is defined as any for-profit private facility that provides for the detention or custody of inmates pursuant to a contract or other agreement with a public entity.
The bill would not apply to non-profit residential community release programs that contract with the Department of Corrections to provide for the care, custody, subsistence, treatment, education, training, or welfare of inmates.
