(a) A Bureau of Corrections is continued as an independent bureau within the Executive Branch of the Government.
(b) The Director of Corrections, in cooperation with the Director of Personnel, shall establish minimum qualifications standards for correctional personnel; shall develop new personnel classification positions to enable paraprofessionals, volunteers and ex-offenders except those who were former police officers, to perform appropriate correctional services; and shall arrange with appropriate agencies to provide pre-employment training and educational opportunities to such individuals to enable them to meet minimum qualifications standards, and to make available in-service training to Bureau personnel.
(c) The Director of Corrections is authorized to enter into agreements to use the correctional or detention facilities of the United States Bureau of Prisons; or the correctional facilities of any state or local government or private correctional entity located in the United States, its territories, possessions, commonwealths or the District of Columbia, which are accredited by the American Correctional Association, when the Director of Corrections determines that detention and/or correctional facilities within the Virgin Islands are inadequate to serve the best interest of the inmate or the general interest or welfare of the Territory; provided that as a condition of and prior to the transfer of any inmates, the Director of Corrections shall ascertain and insure the availability of educational and/or vocational programs at the institution they are to be transferred to for the purpose of enabling such inmates to gain marketable skills, and provided further that no inmate is to be transferred to any institution lacking any such program(s).