Bill Text: NJ A4241 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DOC to transport inmate to county where crime was committed upon release from correctional facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A4241 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A4241-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman DOMENICK DICICCO, JR.
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DOC to transport inmate to county where crime was committed upon release from correctional facility.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning prisoner release, designated as Costantino's Law, and supplementing P.L.2009, c.329 (C.30:1B-6.1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Upon release from a State correctional facility, the Commissioner of Corrections shall transport an inmate to an address in the county in which the crime for which the inmate was incarcerated was committed.
2. The Commissioner of Corrections shall promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill would require the Department of Corrections to transport an inmate being released from a State correctional facility to the county in which the crime for which the inmate was serving the sentence was committed.
This bill is named in memory of Alfred Costantino of Vineland who was killed when a former Southern State Correctional Facility inmate stole a vehicle and crashed into the minivan Mr. Costantino was driving. The former inmate had been serving a sentence for a crime committed in Essex County but had been living in Cumberland County since his release.
