5. The Department of Corrections shall establish a program within each prison facility to provide for the mentoring of inmates who have been in the department’s custody for a continuous uninterrupted period of less than two years. The program shall utilize inmates who have been in the department’s custody for a continuous uninterrupted period of more than 10 years to provide the mentoring services, provided that such inmates have demonstrated to the commissioner and the supervisor of the facility wherein they are incarcerated that they can serve as positive role models to inmates being mentored pursuant to this section.

L.2009, c.330, s.5.