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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="8-103" title_number="8" title_name="State and Local Correctional System -- Generally" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Standards for Correctional Facilities">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>With the advice of the Commission, the Secretary shall adopt regulations that establish minimum mandatory standards applicable to security and incarcerated individual control, incarcerated individual safety, incarcerated individual food services, incarcerated individual housing and sanitation, incarcerated individual rights, classification, hearings, victim notification, restitution, and administrative record keeping.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The minimum mandatory standards adopted under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall apply to all State and local correctional facilities.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>With the advice of the Commission, the Secretary shall adopt regulations that establish approved standards applicable to personnel, training, administration, management, planning and coordination, research and evaluation, physical plant, special management incarcerated individuals, rules and discipline, mail and visiting, reception and orientation, property control, work programs, educational and vocational training, library services, religious services, recreational activities, counseling, release preparation, and volunteers.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The approved standards adopted under paragraph (1) of this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall apply to all State correctional facilities; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may be adopted, as a whole or in part, by a local correctional facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The standards adopted under this section shall be consistent with federal and State law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
