Title 13, Title 13 — Correctional Institutions

If articles or materials of a different design, style, or quality than those produced are needed by any state department or institution, the director of corrections may, if a sufficient quantity is needed, arrange for their manufacture of them on special order.

Any officer who willfully neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of this chapter relative to the purchase of articles and materials from the public welfare institutions shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation.

Correctional industries shall maintain an accurate and timely accounting of monies received from the sale of products or services of committed offenders. Monies accredited into the correctional industries fund shall be used for the purchase of materials, supervision, and other re…

“Public welfare institutions” as used in this chapter means the adult correctional institutions.

(a) The director of the department of corrections may establish within any of the institutions under his or her control vocational training programs, and programs for the actual manufacture, assembly, repair, fabrication, servicing, and production of commercially saleable commodi…

The provisions of this chapter, and all other regulations and laws of this state not inconsistent with this chapter, shall apply to all goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured or mined, wholly or in part, by convicts or prisoners (except prisoners on parole or probation), or m…

For the purpose of this chapter, the provisions of § 13-7-3 shall not include: (1) The sale or exchange of convict-made goods produced in the public welfare institutions of this state, to or with other reformatory or custodial institutions, for their own consumption or use; (2) T…

(a) The department of corrections shall cause any articles and materials that are used in the offices, departments, or institutions of the state and of the several cities and towns to be produced by the labor of inmates in the public welfare institutions. (b) From time to time th…

When the state purchasing agent or agent of any state office, department, or institution has occasion to purchase any articles, services or materials similar to those produced in the adult correctional institutions, and notification of that production has been given to him or her…

When the purchasing agent or the managing officer of any city or town office, department, or institution, has occasion to purchase any articles, services or materials similar to those produced at the adult correctional institutions, he or she shall notify the director of correcti…

The department of corrections may accept orders from any 501(c)(3) for any articles, services, or materials similar to those produced at the adult correctional institutions.