Statute 75-52,127: Conservation camps.
On or after the effective date of this act, the secretary
of corrections may establish conservation camps to provide inmates with a
highly structured residential work program. Such conservation camps shall
be a state correctional institution or facility for confinement under the
supervision of the secretary. A conservation camp may accept defendants
assigned to such camp as provided in
K.S.A. 21-4603 or
K.S.A. 21-4603d and
amendments thereto. Defendants assigned pursuant to
K.S.A. 21-4603 or
K.S.A.
21-4603d, and amendments thereto, to a conservation camp may be transferred by
the secretary to any other correctional institution or facility. Any inmate
sentenced to the custody of the secretary may be confined in a conservation
camp, however, only those inmates assigned to the conservation camp pursuant to
subsection (a)(5) or (e) of
K.S.A. 21-4603d or subsection (b)(6) of
K.S.A.
21-4603, and amendments thereto, shall be eligible for release upon successful
completion of the conservation camp program.
History: L. 1989, ch. 92, § 32;
L. 1998, ch. 186, § 6; July 1.