The Riverside Vocational and Technical School is created for the purpose of providing vocational and technical educational opportunities to qualified persons incarcerated in facilities of the Department of Correction and the Department of Community Correction or to qualified persons supervised by the Department of Community Correction, including those on probation and parole or any type of post prison release or transfer who would be qualified to receive vocational and technical education and training in state vocational and technical schools established by the Career Education and Workforce Development Board under the provisions of §§ 6-51-201 — 6-51-203, 6-51-205, 6-51-207 — 6-51-210, and other laws of this state relative to vocational and technical schools.