The purposes of the commission and community corrections programs shall be to:
- (1) Provide the judicial system with sentences to be used in lieu of incarceration;
- (2) Develop community-based sentencing alternatives to incarceration for certain individuals convicted of a felony;
- (3) Monitor and enforce the payment of restitution to victims of crime and the community through financial reimbursement, community service, or both;
- (4) Stimulate local involvement in community corrections programs to assure that they are specifically designed to meet the needs of the sentencing court and the community; and
- (5) Reduce expenditures of state funds by increasing community-based sentencing, reducing the rate of recidivism, and reducing revocations of probation and parole.
Effective: June 24, 2003
History: Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 227, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1994. – Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992.