P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1121
All of the convicts for felonies shall be submitted to periodic evaluations for the purposes of:
(a) Knowing and analyzing their social, physical, emotional and mental state and their criminal backgrounds, and identifying their capabilities, interests, motivations, controls and limitations, for the purpose of classifying them and determining the plan of action to be taken in each case, in agreement with the individualized treatment and public safety principles framed within the purposes of this chapter.
(b) The periodical evaluations provided in this section shall be carried out in the manner established hereinbelow:
(1) Minimum custody inmates shall be reviewed every twelve (12) months.
(2) Medium custody inmates shall be reviewed every twelve (12) months.
(3) Maximum custody inmates shall be reviewed every six (6) months, after the first year of sentence under the maximum custody classification has been served.
The procedure to be followed shall be in accordance with the provisions established in § 1112(c) of this title.
(c) Carrying out these evaluations by the treatment staff or by those specialists that the Correctional Administration deems appropriate to contract or recruit in order to offer evaluation, consultation, and advisory services and treatment.
(d) Obtaining these services from other public or private agencies in the community, pursuant to the powers granted in § 1112(o) of this title.
(e) Making these evaluations, at the request of the court or when the agency’s treatment staff deems it appropriate, in the case of persons convicted for misdemeanors.
(f) Explaining to the member of the correctional population the purpose and the results of the evaluations performed, with the exception of such information which has been determined as confidential, through the regulations to such effect.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 7; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 5; May 19, 2006, No. 102, § 1.