Rule 125-4-1-.02: Purpose

Division:
Board of Corrections
Topic Area:
125-4: Institutional, Center, and Program Services — COUNSELING SERVICES
Official Source:
GA Secretary of State Rules
Length:
181 words

Summary

Counseling is designed to assist with offender management in assigned institutions and community rehabilitation centers by helping offenders to cope with the personal and social problems of incarceration and community adjustment. Offenders shall also be encouraged through counseling to assume individual responsibility for their rehabilitation by participation in available programs which offer opportunities to develop needed personal, social, career and citizenship skills in preparation for re...

Key Topics

  • Counseling Services
  • Institutional
  • Center
  • and Program Services

Full Text

Counseling is designed to assist with offender management in assigned institutions and community rehabilitation centers by helping offenders to cope with the personal and social problems of incarceration and community adjustment. Offenders shall also be encouraged through counseling to assume individual responsibility for their rehabilitation by participation in available programs which offer opportunities to develop needed personal, social, career and citizenship skills in preparation for release.

Cite as Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 125-4-1-.02

Authority: Ga. Constitution 1983, Art. XI, Sec. I, Par. (b); Ga. L. 1956, pp. 161, 170; 1969 p. 598; 1956, pp. 161, 171; 1956, pp. 161, 174 (O.C.G.A. 42-2-11 ); Ga. L. 1964, pp. 491, 492; 1970, pp. 318, 319 (O.C.G.A. 42-5-53 ); Ga. L. 1972, p. 838 (O.C.G.A. 42-10-2 ) Ga. L. 1956, pp. 161, 178 (O.C.G.A. 42-2-11 ); Ga. L. 1964, pp. 734, 735 (O.C.G.A. 42-5-57 ); Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1399, 1403 (O.C.G.A. 42-5-51 ); Ga. L. 1978, pp. 1647, 1652 (O.C.G.A. 42-2-11 ).

History. Rule, entitled "Purpose," filed sa Rule 415-4-1-.02 on November 14, 1984; effective December 4, 1984, renumbered as Rule 125-4-1-.02. Filed June 28, 1985; effective July 20, 1985, as specified by the Agency.

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