(a)
(1) The Director of the Department of Correction shall formulate and establish a system by which all prisoners delivered to and in the care and custody of the Department of Correction shall be classified according to deportment.
(2) In this classification, consideration shall be given to the prisoner's demeanor while in the department's care and custody and the prisoner's record prior to commitment to the department.
(b) Persons committed to the institutional care of the department shall be dealt with humanely with efforts directed to their rehabilitation.
(c)
(1) For these purposes, the department may establish programs of classification and diagnosis, education, casework, counseling and psychiatric therapy, vocational training and guidance, work, library and religious services, and other rehabilitation programs or services as may be indicated.
(2) The department shall also institute procedures for the study and classification of inmates.
(d)
(1) With the approval of the Board of Corrections, the director shall establish rules and regulations for the assignment of inmates to the various programs, services, and work activities of the department.
(2) Inmates in the institutions of the department may participate in and benefit from the vocational, educational, and rehabilitation services of their respective institutions solely within the rules and regulations of the department as determined by the director, subject to appeal and review by the Board of Corrections or a designated review board in accordance with procedures that shall be established by the Board of Corrections.
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