The Commissioner of Correction shall establish and maintain such community correctional centers or detention centers as are required for the proper administration of the correctional process. The commissioner shall establish rules for the regulation and government of such community correctional centers and detention centers and for the discipline and employment of inmates. Any reference in the general statutes or special acts to sheriffs as jailers, or their powers and duties as such, shall be to the commissioner.
(1967, P.A. 152, S. 40; 1969, P.A. 297.)
History: 1969 act replaced jails with community correctional centers.
Cited. 35 CA 431.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 18 - Correctional Institutions and Department of Correction
Chapter 322 - Community Correctional Centers
Section 18-31. - Location. Definitions.
Section 18-31a. - Maintenance of community correctional centers and detention centers.
Section 18-45a. - Confiscation of moneys in possession of prisoners.
Section 18-46. - Employment of prisoners. Duties of commissioners.
Section 18-46a. - Public sale of articles made by inmates.
Section 18-51 and 18-52. - Expiration of term on Sunday or holiday. Release of sick prisoners.
Section 18-62. - Sexes to be separated. Exception for cocorrectional facilities.
Section 18-63. - Commitment for failure to pay fine.
Section 18-64. - Annual jail returns to Welfare Commissioner.