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B. Cause a copy of the warrant of commitment to be filed in
the office of the clerk of court from which it was issued.

 
Sec. 24. 34-A MRSA §3602, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §6, is
amended to read:

 
§3602. Purposes

 
The purposes of the Charleston Correctional Facility include
vocational and academic education, rehabilitative programs
including work release and work involving public restitution.

 
Sec. 25. 34-A MRSA §4102, sub-§§2 and 3, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 400,
are amended to read:

 
2. Diagnostic evaluation. To administer court-ordered
diagnostic evaluations pursuant to Title 15, section 3309-A and
court-ordered examinations pursuant to Title 15, section 3318;
and

 
3. Confinement. To confine juveniles ordered detained
pursuant to Title 15, section 3314, subsection 1, paragraph H.;

 
Sec. 26. 34-A MRSA §4102, sub-§§4 and 5 are enacted to read:

 
4.__Rehabilitation.__To rehabilitate juveniles committed to a
juvenile correctional facility pursuant to Title 15, section
3314, subsection 1, paragraph F; and

 
5.__Protection.__To protect the public from dangerous
juveniles.

 
Sec. 27. 34-A MRSA §4102, as amended by PL 1997, c. 752, §41 and PL
1999, c. 401, Pt. J, §6, is further amended by adding at the end
a new paragraph to read:

 
To accomplish the purposes set out in this section, the
disciplines of education, casework, group work, psychology,
psychiatry, medicine, nursing, applied technology training and
religion as they are related to human relations and personality
development must be employed.__Security measures, whether in the
form of physically restrictive construction or intensive staff
supervision, when appropriate, may be taken to accomplish these
purposes.

 
Sec. 28. 34-A MRSA §4104, as amended by PL 1999, c. 260, Pt. A, §11
and c. 401, Pt. J, §6, is further amended to read:

 
§4104. Detention


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