S-205Senate Public Bill

Providing Alternatives to Isolation and Ensuring Oversight and Remedies in the Correctional System Act (Tona’s Law)

An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act

Sen. Kim Pate
Current stage: 1st Reading
Introduced 4 days ago
45th Parliament, 1st Session

Summary

This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to, among other things, (a) require that, if a person who is sentenced, transferred or committed to a penitentiary has disabling mental health issues, they will be transferred to a hospital; (b) ensure that a person may only be confined in a structured intervention unit for longer than 48 hours on an order of a superior court; (c) allow for the provision of correctional services and plans for release and reintegration into the community to persons from disadvantaged or minority populations by community groups and other similar support services; and (d) allow for persons who are sentenced to a period of incarceration or parole ineligibility to apply to the court that imposed that sentence for a reduction if there has been unfairness in the administration of their sentence.

Event Timeline

  1. Senate First Reading

    May 28, 2025Senate
  2. Senate Second Reading

    Oct 21, 2025Senate
  3. Senate Third Reading

    Apr 28, 2026Senate
  4. House First Reading

    May 28, 2026House

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