Using the studies of the Sentencing Release/Policy Committee, the Recodification Committee, and other analyses, including testimony from representatives of the bodies that conducted the analysis, the Commission shall:

1. 1. Determine the long-range needs of the criminal justice and corrections systems and recommend policy priorities for those systems;
2. 2. Determine the long-range information needs of the criminal justice and corrections systems and acquire that information as it becomes available;
3. 3. Identify critical problems in the criminal justice and corrections systems and recommend strategies to solve those problems;
4. 4. Assess the cost-effectiveness of the use of state and local funds in the criminal justice and corrections systems;
5. 5. Recommend the goals, priorities and standards for the allocation of criminal justice and corrections funds;
6. 6. Recommend means to improve the deterrent and rehabilitative capabilities of the criminal justice and corrections systems;
7. 7. Propose plans, programs and legislation for improving the effectiveness of the criminal justice and corrections systems;
8. 8. Determine the sentencing structures for parole decisions;
9. 9. Examine the impact of mandatory sentence lengths as opposed to the deterrent effect of minimum mandatory terms of imprisonment;
10. 10. Examine good time and earned credit practices;
11. 11. Study the value of presentence investigations and reports;
12. 12. Consider the rehabilitative potential of the offender and the appropriate rehabilitative placement;
13. 13. Examine the impact of imprisonment on the families of offenders;
14. 14. Examine the impact of imprisonment on the ability of offenders to make restitution; and
15. 15. Study the costs and consequences of criminal behavior in Oklahoma and consider the value of preventing crimes by using incarceration to deter criminals from future crimes.

Added by Laws 1994, HB 1249, c. 355, § 12, emerg. eff. July 1, 1994.