A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,  Requesting the Department of Corrections to expand their mission statement.

     WHEREAS,  the current mission statement of the Department of Corrections does not include the goal of inmate rehabilitation; and

     WHEREAS,  in the year 2001, the Department of Corrections returned 1,551 adult inmates to our communities; and

     WHEREAS,  we, as the State Legislature, encourage all citizens to be useful, employable, well adjusted, and socially acceptable individuals:

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,  by the House of Representatives of the Seventy- seventh Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the Department of Corrections be strongly encouraged to modify their mission statement to include the following statements: "The mission of the Department of Corrections is to provide the highest level of social rehabilitation, correctional treatment, medical care and related treatment

to persons committed to the correctional institutions that will assist those committed in achieving or maintaining economic self-support or self-sufficiency that will reduce dependency; to provide needed long-term care services to those permanently admitted or committed; to assure that those released are useful, employable, well adjusted, and socially acceptable individuals and to insure against a return to the institutional environment; and to insure that the conditions of confinement in local correctional facilities provide decent and humane care to detainees in order to expedite their successful return to their community."