Sec. 6. (a) The department shall annually conduct or contract with a third party to annually conduct an actuarially based study of projected costs of incarceration.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 11-10-13-6

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
     (b) The study must:

(1) consider:

(A) the present and anticipated future costs of incarcerating the current inmate population;

(B) the effect of educational credit and good time credit;

(C) the effect of inmate mortality rates;

(D) the projected increase in costs of incarceration; and

(E) any other factor determined to be relevant by the department or the third party contractor; and

(2) provide an analysis of the projected costs of incarceration for each subsequent calendar year after the year the study is conducted until each inmate in the current inmate population is no longer serving the executed sentence for which the inmate is incarcerated in the department.

     (c) The department shall include the results of the study in the annual report made under IC 11-8-2-5(a)(16).

As added by P.L.85-2004, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.74-2015, SEC.11; P.L.130-2018, SEC.38.

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