(A) It is the duty of the director to oversee, manage, and control the department. The director shall develop written policies and procedures for the following:

(1) the supervising of offenders on probation, parole, community supervision, and other offenders released from incarceration prior to the expiration of their sentence, which supervising shall be based on a structured decision-making guide designed to enhance public safety, which uses evidence-based practices and focuses on considerations of offenders' criminal risk factors;

(2) the consideration of paroles and pardons and the supervision of offenders in the community supervision program and other offenders released from incarceration prior to the expiration of their sentence. The requirements for an offender's participation in the community supervision program and an offender's progress toward completing the program are to be decided administratively by the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. No inmate or future inmate shall have a "liberty interest" or an "expectancy of release" while in a community supervision program administered by the department;

(3) the operation of community-based correctional services and treatment programs; and

(4) the operation of public work sentence programs for offenders as provided in item (1) of this subsection. This program also may be utilized as an alternative to technical revocations. The director shall establish priority programs for litter control along state and county highways. This must be included in the "public service work" program.

(B) It is the duty of the board to consider cases for parole, pardon, and any other form of clemency provided for under law.

HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 100, Section 4; 1986 Act No. 462, Section 10; 1988 Act No. 480, Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 462; 1995 Act No. 83, Section 39; 2010 Act No. 273, Section 47, eff January 1, 2011.

Editor's Note

2010 Act No. 273, Section 66, provides in part:

"The provisions of Part II take effect on January 1, 2011, for offenses occurring on or after that date."

Effect of Amendment

The 2010 amendment in subsection (A)(1) added the text at the end relating to a structured decision-making guide, and in subsection (A)(3) inserted "services and treatment".