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Public Act 100-0030
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| HB2738 Enrolled | LRB100 10534 RLC 20750 b |
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by |
changing Section 3-7-2 as follows:
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(730 ILCS 5/3-7-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-7-2) |
Sec. 3-7-2. Facilities. |
(a) All institutions and facilities of the Department shall |
provide
every committed person with access to toilet |
facilities, barber
facilities, bathing facilities at least |
once each week, a library of
legal materials and published |
materials including newspapers and magazines
approved by the |
Director. A committed person may not receive any materials
that |
the Director deems pornographic. |
(b) (Blank). |
(c) All institutions and facilities of the Department shall |
provide
facilities for every committed person to leave his cell |
for at least one
hour each day unless the chief administrative |
officer determines that it
would be harmful or dangerous to the |
security or safety of the
institution or facility. |
(d) All institutions and facilities of the Department shall |
provide
every committed person with a wholesome and nutritional |
diet at
regularly scheduled hours, drinking water, clothing |
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adequate for the
season, bedding, soap and towels and medical |
and dental care. |
(e) All institutions and facilities of the Department shall |
permit
every committed person to send and receive an unlimited |
number of
uncensored letters, provided, however, that the |
Director may order that
mail be inspected and read for reasons |
of the security, safety or morale
of the institution or |
facility. |
(f) All of the institutions and facilities of the |
Department shall
permit every committed person to receive |
in-person visitors and video contact, if available, except in |
case of
abuse of the visiting privilege or when the chief |
administrative officer
determines that such visiting would be |
harmful or dangerous to the
security, safety or morale of the |
institution or facility.
The chief administrative officer |
shall have the right to restrict visitation
to non-contact |
visits, video, or other forms of non-contact visits for reasons |
of safety, security, and order, including,
but not limited to, |
restricting contact visits for committed persons engaged in
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gang activity.
No committed person in a super maximum security |
facility or on disciplinary
segregation is allowed contact |
visits. Any committed person found in
possession of illegal |
drugs or who fails a drug test shall not be permitted
contact |
visits for a period of at least 6 months. Any committed person
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involved in gang activities or found guilty of assault |
committed against a
Department employee shall not be permitted |
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contact visits for a period of at
least 6 months. The |
Department shall offer every visitor appropriate written |
information concerning HIV and AIDS, including information |
concerning how to contact the Illinois Department of Public |
Health for counseling information. The Department shall |
develop the written materials in consultation with the |
Department of Public Health. The Department shall ensure that |
all such information and materials are culturally sensitive and |
reflect cultural diversity as appropriate. Implementation of |
the changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the |
94th General Assembly is subject to appropriation.
The |
Department shall seek the lowest possible cost to provide video |
calling and shall charge to the extent of recovering any |
demonstrated costs of providing video calling. The Department |
shall not make a commission or profit from video calling |
services. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to permit |
video calling instead of in-person visitation. |
(f-5) (Blank). |
(g) All institutions and facilities of the Department shall |
permit
religious ministrations and sacraments to be available |
to every
committed person, but attendance at religious services |
shall not be
required. |
(h) Within 90 days after December 31, 1996, the Department |
shall prohibit
the use of curtains, cell-coverings, or any |
other matter or object that
obstructs or otherwise impairs the |
line of vision into a committed person's
cell. |