(a)
(1) The Director of the Division of Correction shall formulate and establish a system by which all prisoners delivered to and in the care and custody of the Division of Correction shall be classified according to deportment.
(2) In this classification, consideration shall be given to the prisoner's demeanor while in the division's care and custody and the prisoner's record prior to commitment to the division.
(b) Persons committed to the institutional care of the division shall be dealt with humanely with efforts directed to their rehabilitation.
(c)
(1) For these purposes, the division 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 division 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 for the assignment of inmates to the various programs, services, and work activities of the division.
(2) Inmates in the institutions of the division may participate in and benefit from the vocational, educational, and rehabilitation services of their respective institutions solely within the rules of the division 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.