GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1440

Short Title:  Youth Exp. in Prison Study Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Odom.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 25, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION FOR THE STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAM TO ALLOW YOUTHS TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE AS AN INMATE IN THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to study and develop a program in which youths ages 10 through 18 can visit prison facilities and gain an understanding of life as an inmate incarcerated in the State prison system.  The Department shall report on the program developed and plans for implementing it to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and the Chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety by March 15, 1995.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.