§ 16-93-713. Rulemaking authority
The Parole Board may adopt rules to implement, administer, and enforce this subchapter.
§ 16-93-1603. Powers and duties of the Board of Corrections
(a) The Board of Corrections shall promulgate rules or develop administrative directives that set minimum standards for all transitional housing facilities in the State of Arkansas. (b) (1) The Parole Board, a district court, or a circuit court shall not release a transferee, parolee, or probationer to a transitional housing facility as a resident unless […]
§ 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 […]
§ 16-93-1203. Board of Corrections — Powers and duties
The Board of Corrections shall have the following duties and responsibilities with regard to community correction programming: (1) Establish community correction programs to which eligible offenders may be assigned as a condition of probation, sentenced to by the trial court pursuant to this subchapter, paroled to upon release from incarceration, or transferred to after incarceration […]
§ 16-93-1204. Authorization
(a) The Board of Corrections shall implement a correctional plan, to be developed in conjunction with the Arkansas Sentencing Commission, which ensures the efficient use of prison beds, which are becoming scarce resources, through the development and expansion of community correction options which will provide supervision, correction, and services to a primary target group of […]