Public Act 096-0869
 		





HB1995 Enrolled
LRB096 05393 RLC 15459 b






    AN ACT concerning corrections.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended  by 
changing Section 3-7-2 as follows:
 
    (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 
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 
visitors, 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 for reasons of safety, 
security, and order, including,
but not limited to, restricting 
contact visits for committed persons engaged in
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
involved in 
gang activities or found guilty of assault committed against a

Department employee shall not be permitted 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.

    (f-5)  The Department shall establish a pilot program in one 
or more institutions or facilities of the Department to permit 
committed persons to remotely visit family members through 
interactive video conferences.  The Department may enter into 
agreements with third-party organizations to provide video 
conference facilities for family members of committed persons.  
The Department may determine who is a family member eligible to 
participate in the program and the conditions in which and 
times when the video conferences may be conducted.  The 
Department may conduct such conferences as an alternative to 
transporting committed persons to facilities and institutions 
of the Department near the residences of family members of the 
committed persons.
    Beginning on October 1, 2010 and through October 1, 2012, 
the Department shall issue an annual report to the General 
Assembly regarding the implementation and effectiveness of the 
pilot program created by this subsection (f-5). 
    (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.
(Source: P.A. 94-629, eff. 1-1-06.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2010.