GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 20

HOUSE BILL 50

 

AN ACT TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRAINING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Correction and the Department of Community Colleges shall jointly develop and submit to the Special Committee on Prisons no later than April, 1988, a comprehensive plan for academic, remedial, vocational, and technical education to adult inmates.  This plan shall specify for the system as a whole and each prison unit the programs to be offered; mechanisms for approval, funding, and oversight of programs; divisions of responsibility in delivering programs; mechanisms for ongoing evaluation of programs; provisions for appropriate referral and assignment of inmates to programs; facility, equipment, and staffing needs for implementing the plan; and a schedule of implementation.  The plan shall cover a three to five year period, beginning with FY 1988-89.

Sec. 2.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to obligate the General Assembly to make additional appropriations to implement the provisions of this act.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of March, 1987.