Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 5. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF STATE AND COUNTIES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

42-5-20. Alcohol or Drug Use Risk Reduction Program.

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The department shall provide within the correctional system an Alcohol or Drug Use Risk Reduction Program. The program shall be made available to every person sentenced to the custody of the state whose criminal offense or history indicates alcohol or drug involvement; provided, however, that the provisions of this Code section shall not apply to a person who has been sentenced to the punishment of death or those deemed mentally incompetent.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 42-5-20, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 625, § 1.

For note on the 1995 enactment of this Code section, see 12 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 301 (1995).

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