Under existing law, the Director of the Department of Corrections is authorized to enter into one or more contracts with one or more public or private entities to provide certain services to offenders, including transitional housing. (NRS 209.4889) Section 4.5 of this bill authorizes the Director to establish, in coordination with the Division of Forestry of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, a transitional housing program to provide training in forestry management and conservation for certain offenders who: (1) are committed to the custody of the Department and eligible for assignment to an institution or facility of minimum security; and (2) have previously been denied parole solely due to a lack of other available transitional housing. Under existing law, the State Forester Firewarden, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections, is required to establish and carry out a program for operating conservation camps in this State which may use offenders who meet certain requirements to perform certain work, including firefighting. (NRS 209.457) Section 5 of this bill requires the State Forester Firewarden to establish a hiring program to appoint former offenders who performed firefighting work in such conservation camps to firefighting positions in the Division of Forestry of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 284.305
BDR: 284.305