Crime Doesn't Pay Prison Act
Bill journey · stage 2 of 5
Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Jul 21, 1998)
Crime Doesn't Pay Prison Act - Prohibits a court from granting relief in an action or proceeding challenging conditions of confinement of a correctional institution, unless such conditions constitute the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain due to the deliberate indifference of the administrators of the institution such that inmates are deprived of the minimum civilized measure of life's necessities.
Establishes a presumption that if an institution makes a per-inmate expenditure equal to or exceeding the poverty guideline level, the administrators are not deliberately indifferent to the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain and the deprivation of the minimum civilized measure of life's necessities, which may be rebutted only by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
Specifies that a failure to make a per-inmate expenditure equal to or exceeding the poverty guideline level does not give rise to a presumption that the conditions of confinement of an institution are unconstitutional.
What just happenedJul 21, 1998
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Who’s behind it
- Jul 21, 1998IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Judiciary Committee - Jul 21, 1998IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8658)
- Jul 21, 1998IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate