The department may adopt regulations as to the eligibility of those inmates who are classified as minimum security risks for the extension of the limits of confinement. However, no inmate who has ever been convicted of murder, kidnapping in the first degree, rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, arson in the first degree, selling or trafficking in controlled substances, robbery in the first degree, burglary in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree or assault in the first degree if said assault leaves the victim permanently disfigured or disabled, shall be eligible for such inmate community reintegration under the Supervised Intensive Restitution program.