§ 16-93-1701. Establishment
The Administrative Office of the Courts shall: (1) Create the Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program, awarding up to five (5) grants in the program’s first year to counties or judicial districts requesting funds to establish probation programs to be administered by the Department of Community Correction designed to reduce recidivism by requiring […]
§ 16-93-1702. Application
(a) A county or judicial district may apply for a grant award under this subchapter by submitting a written application to the Administrative Office of the Courts. (b) The application shall include the following: (1) A description of the proposed probation program and the need in the county or judicial district for the establishment of […]
§ 16-93-1703. Grant uses — Definition
(a) A grant awarded under this subchapter shall be used by the grantee to establish probation programs that: (1) Identify probationers for enrollment in the probation program, through, among other tools, a validated risk-needs assessment tool, who are: (A) Serving a term of probation; (B) At high risk of failing to observe the conditions of […]
§ 16-93-1704. Determination of probation program savings
(a) Each county or judicial district receiving a grant under this subchapter shall: (1) Not later than twelve (12) months after an initial grant award under this section and annually thereafter through the end of the grant period calculate the amount of cost savings and costs averted, if any, resulting from the reduced incarceration achieved […]
§ 16-93-714. Denial of parole — Detriment to the community
The Parole Board may deny parole to any otherwise eligible person, regardless of the sentence that he or she is serving, if five (5) members of the board determine that the person upon release would be a detriment to the community into which the person would be released.
§ 16-93-1604. Powers and duties of the Division of Community Correction
(a) The Division of Community Correction shall implement the rules or administrative directives described in § 16-93-1603. (b) (1) The division shall be responsible for the enforcement of the rules and administrative directives established by the Board of Corrections under § 16-93-1603. (2) The division shall establish all procedures and forms that it deems necessary […]
§ 16-93-715. Revocation — Technical conditions violations and serious conditions violations
(a) (1) If a parolee is subject to a parole revocation hearing under this subchapter for a technical conditions violation or a serious conditions violation, the parolee is subject to confinement for the following periods, subject to subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section, before being released and returned to parole supervision: (A) Up to ninety (90) […]
§ 16-93-1605. License required
(a) In order to operate a transitional housing facility for criminal offenders who have been transferred, paroled, or placed on probation through the Arkansas criminal justice system, the operator shall obtain a license by facility type from the Division of Community Correction. (b) (1) Operation of a transitional housing facility without a license issued by […]
§ 16-93-1201. Findings and determinations
(a) The State of Arkansas hereby finds that the cost of incarcerating the ever-increasing numbers of offenders in traditional penitentiaries is skyrocketing, bringing added fiscal pressures on state government, and that some inmates can be effectively punished, with little risk to the public, in a more affordable manner through the use of community correction programs […]
§ 16-93-1202. Definitions
As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the Board of Corrections; (2) “Community correction” means: (A) Probation, a judicially imposed criminal sanction permitting varying levels of supervision of eligible offenders in the community; (B) Economic sanctions programs, including an active organized collection of fees, fines, restitution, day fines, day reporting centers, and penalties attached […]