P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1523
The Corporation shall be charged with establishing the programs and activities authorized by this chapter, to the extent its resources allow, in benefit of the following persons:
(a) Clients who are imprisoned by virtue of a sentence or order, in the facilities and institutions of the Correctional Administration or Juvenile Institutions Administration, subject to compliance with the constitutional and legal provisions that forbid the imprisonment and the transfer of minors together with adult convicts.
(b) Transgressing minors and convicts who are in the free community under any suspended sentence, parole, probation, rehabilitation or reeducation treatment, or half-way house programs.
(c) Any adult or minor who is in the free community after having served his/her sentence or court order, or has been pardoned.
(d) Any minor or adult who is participating in a prevention, training or rehabilitation program of the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services, or a duly-licensed private institution.
For the attainment of these objectives, the Corporation shall establish the systems and projects that will improve the productivity and competitivity of these programs, and the real capacity to integrate the persons who have completed their programs and services to the socioeconomic system of our country, in order to ameliorate the problem or the high level of unemployment faced by the convicts and transgressing minors and those who have been discharged from juvenile institutions.
The Corporation shall have the task of innovatively planning and diversifying the training, entrepreneurial development, [preferably in the cooperative sphere], and employment activities of these clients for the purpose of developing in all participants a positive attitude towards work as well as their self-esteem and a sense of self-improvement, leadership and good citizenship. In this manner, the most effective means for allowing the participants of these programs to contribute with their efforts or work to cover the expenses for their support and that of their families, give retribution to the victims of their crimes, encourage saving for the moment when the inmates and transgressing minors in custody are returned to the free community and contribute to cover the expenses of the programs of the Corporation and those of the corrections and juvenile justice systems.
History —Aug. 6, 1991, No. 47, § 4; Sept. 28, 2007, No. 133, § 2.