TITLE 42 PENAL INSTITUTIONS

Section 5. Correctional Institutions of State and Counties, 42-5-1 through 42-5-125.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

42-5-21. Family Violence Counseling Program.

The department shall provide within the correctional system a Family Violence Counseling Program. The program shall be made available to every person sentenced to the custody of the state who committed an offense which has been identified to involve family violence as such term is defined in Code Section 19-13-1; 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 to those deemed mentally incompetent.

(Code 1981, §42-5-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1113, § 1.)