§ 45. Functions, powers and duties of the commission. The commission\nshall have the following functions, powers and duties:\n 1. Advise and assist the governor in developing policies, plans and\nprograms for improving the administration of correctional facilities and\nthe delivery of services therein.\n 2. Make recommendations to administrators of correctional facilities\nfor improving the administration of such correctional facilities and the\ndelivery of services therein.\n 3. Visit, inspect and appraise the management of correctional\nfacilities with specific attention to matters such as safety, security,\nhealth of incarcerated individuals, sanitary conditions, rehabilitative\nprograms, disturbance and fire prevention and control preparedness, and\nadherence to laws and regulations governing the rights of incarcerated\nindividuals. Such visits, inspections and appraisals shall occur, at a\nminimum, annually for jails, specialized secure juvenile detention\nfacilities for older youth, facilities operated by the department, and\nsecure facilities operated by the office of children and family\nservices.\n 4. Establish procedures to assure effective investigation of\ngrievances of, and conditions affecting, incarcerated individuals of\nlocal correctional facilities. Such procedures shall include but not be\nlimited to receipt of written complaints, interviews of persons, and\non-site monitoring of conditions. In addition, the commission shall\nestablish procedures for the speedy and impartial review of grievances\nreferred to it by the commissioner. The commission shall maintain a\nwebsite that allows for the submission of written complaints regarding\nany correctional facility, and provides the commission's address for the\nreceipt of complaints by mail. The commission shall promulgate rules and\nregulations requiring correctional facilities to provide incarcerated\nindividuals, in writing, the commission's website and mailing address.\n 5. Ascertain and recommend such system of employing incarcerated\nindividuals of correctional facilities as may, in the opinion of said\ncommission, be for the best interest of the public and of said\nincarcerated individuals and not in conflict with the provisions of the\nconstitution or laws of the state relating to the employment of\nincarcerated individuals.\n 6. Promulgate rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for\nthe review of the construction or improvement of correctional facilities\nand the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline,\nand other correctional programs for all persons confined in correctional\nfacilities. Such rules and regulations shall be forwarded to the\ngovernor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the\nassembly no later than January first, nineteen hundred seventy-six and\nannually thereafter.\n 6-a. Promulgate rules and regulations to assure that persons in\ncustody in local correctional facilities, including persons awaiting\narraignment, are furnished or have access to the type of food required\nby their religious dietary rules or medically prescribed diets, if any.\n 6-b. Promulgate rules and regulations, in consultation with the\ndivision for youth, establishing minimum standards for the care,\ncustody, rehabilitation, treatment, supervision, discipline and other\nprograms for correctional facilities operated by the division for youth.\n 7. Place such members of its staff as it deems appropriate as monitors\nin any local correctional facility which, in the judgment of the\ncommission, presents an imminent danger to the health, safety or\nsecurity of the incarcerated individuals or employees of such\ncorrectional facility or of the public.\n 8. (a) Close any correctional facility which is unsafe, unsanitary or\ninadequate to provide for the separation and classification of prisoners\nrequired by law or which has not adhered to or complied with the rules\nor regulations promulgated with respect
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