As Amended
SEC. 43-27-22. Office of juvenile correctional institutions.
(1) Within the Department of Human Services there shall be an Office of Juvenile Correctional Institutions which shall be headed jointly by the Superintendents of Columbia and Oakley Training Schools, who shall be appointed by the executive director of the department, and who shall be responsible to the executive director of the department. Each superintendent, in turn, shall have full power to select and employ personnel necessary to operate the facility he directs, subject to the approval of the executive director.
(2) The Office of Juvenile Correctional Institutions shall have such duties as the Executive Director of the Department of Human Services shall assign to it including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Operation and maintenance of training schools and other facilities as may be needed to properly diagnose, care for, train, educate and rehabilitate children and youths who have been committed to or confined in the facilities or who are included in the programs of the facilities.
(b) Fulfillment of the objectives of rehabilitation and reformation of the youths confined in the schools, being careful to employ no discipline, training or utilization of time and efforts of such youth that shall under any condition or in any way interfere with such objectives.
(c) Grouping of the youths in the schools according to age, sex and disciplinary needs with respect to their housing, schooling, training, recreation and work, being careful to prevent injury to the morals or interference with the training and rehabilitation of the younger or correctable youths by those considered to be less amenable to discipline and rehabilitation.
SOURCES: Laws, 1973, ch. 438, Sec. 11; 1990, ch. 522, Sec. 24, eff from and after July 1, 1990.