Correctional Services Act
Author: Alexander Ainin [TR] | Urgency: Utmost | SIMBEDS Category: Order | Sponsors: Maklohi Vai [LD], Britanno [LD], Gothmogs [TR], Venaleria [RG], Belmaria [LCP]
Whereas the need for detention and rehabilitation facilities grows more and more urgent every day that passes by,
Whereas Aurentina's lack of prisons have led to less-than-adequate holding facilities being used by the Constabulary, Gendarmerie and other civilian law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth,
The Senate of Aurentina enacts the following clauses as law:
- Clause 1c of the Judicial Act is struck out and replaced with:
A felony is defined as the most serious kind of crime that could of resulted or has caused the death of an individual or a group, or has otherwise caused severe psychological or physical damage. Examples include murder, rape or arson. A felony shall be trialed before a panel of judges and shall be subject to the most severe forms of punishment. A perpetrator of a felony is mandated to receive a prison sentence at or over 10 (depending on the crime, the minimum could be more) and under 30 years, and may be up to £1,000,000; it is a maximum fine of £10,000,000 against corporations.- The Aurentine Office of Corrections [AOC], henceforth known in this act as The Office, is created as a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Justice.
- The Office holds jurisdiction over all civilians in Aurentina, save for civilian instructors and contractors of the Armed Forces.
- All suspects arrested by the Constabulary, Gendarmerie and Animal Protection Force must be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Office within 48 hours of the initial arrest.
- All permanent civilian detention facilities currently in the ownership of any and all government agencies, excluding jails in police stations and gendarmerie bases, are transferred to the Office effective immediately.
- The Office will provide adequate medical and recreational services to inmates, including but not limited to clinics, dental services, books, television, Web 2.0 technologies, music, newspapers and educational magazines.
- The Office shall put in place programs to rehabilitate inmates and to improve their odds of reintegration in modern society after the end of their incarceration.
- The Conditional Release Board is created as a subordinate agency of the Office. It shall be tasked with hearing, once per year, an appeal by inmates to be released under supervision. All inmates are eligible for a conditional release hearing when half of their term is served.
- Time served in prison is to include time detained leading to, and during, trial.
- Following the end of the prison term of an inmate convicted for a violent crime, a court of law may rule to keep them under house arrest if they are deemed to still be a threat to society, but must immediately be released when proved otherwise.
- The government is liable to inmates wrongfully convicted and incarcerated.




