Indiana Code 11-12-10-3. Community transition program funds
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Terms Used In Indiana Code 11-12-10-3
- community corrections program: means a community based program that provides preventive services, services to offenders, services to persons charged with a crime or an act of delinquency, services to persons diverted from the criminal or delinquency process, services to persons sentenced to imprisonment, or services to victims of crime or delinquency, and is operated under a community corrections plan of a county and funded at least in part by the state subsidy provided in IC 11-12-2. See Indiana Code 11-12-1-1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
Sec. 3. There is established a community transition program fund for each community transition program. The fund shall be administered by the community corrections advisory board in each county served by a community corrections program. In a county that is not served by a community corrections program, the courts in the county with felony jurisdiction shall jointly administer the fund. Money in the fund may be used for community corrections programs and, in counties that are not served by a community corrections program, for probation services.
As added by P.L.273-1999, SEC.209.