- I. There is hereby established a department of corrections, an agency of the state.
II. The department of corrections, through its officials, shall be responsible for:
- (a) Providing for, maintaining and administering such state correctional facilities and programs as may be required for the custody, safekeeping, control, correctional treatment and rehabilitation of inmates.
- (b) Supervising persons placed on probation and persons released on parole and administering probation and parole services.
- (c) Acting in an advisory capacity in assisting law enforcement agencies and communities in the prevention of crime and delinquency.
- (d) Ensuring that victims of crime are treated in a manner consistent with RSA 21-M:8-k.
Source. 1983, 461:1. 2009, 283:1, eff. Sept. 27, 2009.