C.__A member of the Legislature may not serve on a board of visitors.

3.__Powers.__Each board of visitors may inspect the correctional facility to which it is assigned, interview any prisoner and make recommendations on the management of the facility or any other matter it considers appropriate to the county commissioners.__Each board shall report to the county commissioners, the Commissioner of Corrections and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice matters by January 5th of each year.__All use of administrative segregation that lasts beyond 72 hours for inmates with histories of mental illness or substance abuse disorders, or both, must be reported to the board of visitors, and the board shall examine the need for the inmate's continued administrative segregation and make recommendations regarding the administrative segregation's impact on the inmate's health and well-being.__The annual report must include a summary of the frequency of such segregation and the board's evaluation of its impact on prisoners.

4.__Duties.__Boards of visitors have the following duties.

A.__Boards of visitors shall send copies of all recommendations to the members of the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice matters.

B.__Each board of visitors shall appear before the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice matters upon request.

PART F

Sec. F-1. 30-A MRSA §1557-A, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 647, §5, is amended to read:

6. Commissioner of Corrections to determine temporary housing assignments. If a county that does not have a jail or has a jail that is not fully certified is unable to locate space