197.010 Definitions for chapter.

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Definitions as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)"Cabinet" means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet;

(2)"Classification" means the systematic assignment of a prisoner to a custody level,

program, and penitentiary;

(3)"Department" means Department of Corrections;

(4)"Eligible sexual offender" means a sexual offender for whom the sentencing court,

department officials, or both have determined that he or she:

(a)Has demonstrated evidence of a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder, but

not active psychosis or an intellectual disability; and

(b)Is likely to benefit from the program;

(5)"Institution" means any institution under the control of the Department of

Corrections;

(6)"Life skills program" means a program that provides strategies for offenders to

assist in removing barriers to successful reintegration into the community and

addresses skill areas, including time management, money management, use of

technology, communication, and social skills;

(7)"Penitentiaries" includes the state penal institutions for males at Eddyville,

LaGrange, the Green River Correctional Complex, the Luther Luckett Correctional

Complex, the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women, the Northpoint Training

Center, the Roederer Correctional Complex, the Eastern Kentucky Correctional

Complex, the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex, Frankfort Career

Development Center, Blackburn Correctional Complex, and Bell County Forestry

Camp, together with the branches thereof, any private prison as provided by KRS

197.500, and any other similar institutions hereafter established;

(8)"Promising practices" means programs and strategies that have some research or

data showing positive outcomes, but do not have enough evidence yet to meet the

standard of an evidence-based program;

(9)"Sexual offender" means any person convicted of, pleading guilty to, or entering an

Alford plea to a sex crime as defined in KRS 17.500; and

(10)"State agency" means any department, board, commission, or agency of the state

government.