GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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HOUSE BILL 210*

Short Title:  Inmate Job Training.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives H. Hunter; Wainwright, Colton, and Burton.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 14, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR PROVIDING ALL INMATES WITH LITERACY AND JOB TRAINING SKILLS PRIOR TO RELEASE FROM PRISON.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Department of Correction shall develop a plan for ensuring that all inmates within the Department's custody receive comprehensive skills training such that each inmate has, upon release from prison, the following:
(1)	At least a general education diploma,
(2)	Skills in how to seek, apply, and interview for employment, and
(3)	Marketable job skills in at least one job skills area of business or industry located in North Carolina, and which business or industry job skills area is considered to be an area where the demand for such job skills is expected to remain constant or experience growth over the five-year period following completion of training.
The plan shall provide that, to the extent permitted by law, each inmate complete the skills training as a condition of release from prison.
In developing the plan the Department may consult with the Department of Community Colleges, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services of the Department of Human Resources, the Employment Security Commission, and other State agencies to ensure that all State-funded job skills training programs available to inmates during and after incarceration utilize State funds in the most cost-efficient and effective manner, avoid duplication of effort and, where appropriate, enhance the effectiveness of programs currently in existence.  The plan shall be developed in sufficient time to ensure that inmates released from prison on or after January 1, 1996, have received the skills training required under this section.
Sec. 2. The Department of Correction shall report quarterly on the progress of its plan development to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations beginning not later than October 1, 1994.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.