Oklahoma § 57-629 - Sex offender stand-alone long-term care facility

§ 57-629. Sex offender stand-alone long-term care facility

A. The Department of Corrections shall promulgate rules and

establish procedures necessary to allow the eligibility of certain

offenders to be considered for parole to a private, stand-alone,

long-term care facility for any offender deemed by the Department of

Corrections to be either terminally ill or progressively debilitated

as defined by the medical profession.

B. For the purpose of this section:

1. Terminally ill means having a condition that reasonably may

be expected to result in death within twenty-four (24) months; and

2. Long-term care facility means a health care facility, other

than a general acute or specialty hospital, constructed, licensed,

and operated to provide patient living accommodations, twenty-fourhour staff availability, and at least two of the following patient

services:

a.

a selection of patient care services, under the

direction and supervision of a registered nurse,

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ranging from continuous medical, skilled nursing,

psychological, or other professional therapies to

intermittent health-related or paraprofessional care

services, and

b.

a structured supportive living environment that

provides support or assistance with individual

activities of daily living.

C. The Department of Corrections will create a list of

offenders eligible for parole to the private, stand-alone, long-term

care facility to be provided to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board

for consideration.

D. Eligible offenders shall not include offenders who are

sentenced as follows:

1. Death row inmates;

2. Life without possibility of parole; or

3. Sentenced for a violent offense as listed in Section 571 of

Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Added by Laws 2008, c. 411, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008. Amended by Laws

2015, c. 227, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015. Renumbered from § 1-849 of

Title 63 by Laws 2015, c. 227, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.