(1) The Administrator of Correctional Education shall plan, design and implement a correctional education system that can be operated within the existing correctional institutions for adults in custody of those institutions.

(2)(a) The primary objective of the correctional education system is the adult basic skills development program described in ORS § 421.084.

(b) The secondary objective is to provide professional and technical education that will ensure that adults in custody who complete the professional and technical program will possess, at a minimum, entry-level marketable professional and technical skills in an occupational field for which there is a demand in this state. [1991 c.855 § 2; 2007 c.15 § 2; 2019 c.213 § 133]

See note under 421.068.

[1975 c.443 § 2; 1987 c.320 § 162; 1989 c.363 § 1; repealed by 1991 c.855 § 6]

[1955 c.660 § 2; renumbered 421.710]