Title 41, Correctional Institutions and Inmates

The commissioner is authorized to make contracts for the sale of coal and coke of the state mines and to dispose of all articles manufactured by the inmates for the state, to the best interests of the state, and pay the proceeds into the state treasury.

(a) It is unlawful for any coal or coal products mined or produced as a result of inmate labor from the state mines at Petros or any other state-owned property to be sold to anyone other than the state itself for its own consumption or to the political subdivisions of the state. …

The mining engineer and other officials in charge of the mines, prisons and inmates shall make monthly reports to the commissioner of correction of all expenses, receipts and transactions connected with the mines, prisons and inmates. The commissioner shall make full and complete…

(a) The TRICOR board, with the approval of the governor, is authorized and directed to make contracts for the sale or manufacture of any article that may be manufactured in state shops. This section and §§ 41-22-110, 41-22-111, and 41-22-115 are subject in all respects to § 41-22…

In the event the authorities authorized and empowered in § 41-22-109 to make contracts for the sale or manufacture of the articles to be manufactured in accordance with the plan provided for in §§ 41-22-109 — 41-22-111 and 41-22-115, are not able, after reasonable effort, to make…

By no contract shall the care, protection and discipline of the inmates be to any degree surrendered or delegated to anyone other than employees of the state, who, under the supervision of the commissioner of correction, with the approval of the governor, shall have charge and co…

Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, if an inmate is housed in a local jail and the inmate is participating in a work release or re-entry program, then the department of correction shall not remove the inmate from the local jail facility for the purpose of relocating the …

In order that any competition between the labor of inmates to be worked directly by and for the benefit of the state and free labor shall be reduced to its practical minimum, all reasonable efforts shall be made to dispose of the articles manufactured by inmates at such prices as…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subsections (c)-(f), a person, firm, association, corporation, federal or state authority, or political subdivision thereof, shall not sell or offer for sale goods, wares, or merchandise manufactured, in whole or in part, by inmates, except inmates o…

(1) In order that inmates may be more profitably employed in TRICOR programs for their own welfare and the welfare of the state, the department of correction is directed to:(1) Employ personnel and purchase any necessary equipment and supplies for investigating and recording the …

(a) All departments, institutions, agencies and political subdivisions of this state, that are supported in whole or in part by the state shall purchase from the TRICOR board all articles required by these departments, institutions, agencies or political subdivisions of the state…

Exceptions from the operation of the mandatory provisions of §§ 41-22-118 — 41-22-124 may be made in any case where, in the opinion of the procurement commission, articles so produced or manufactured do not meet the reasonable requirements of a department, institution, agency or …

No voucher, certificate or warrant issued on the commissioner of finance and administration by any department, institution, agency or political subdivision shall be questioned by the commissioner or by the state treasurer on the grounds that § 41-22-120 has not been complied with…

(a) The TRICOR board shall cause to be prepared annually, at such times as it may determine, catalogues containing the description of all articles and supplies manufactured and produced by it pursuant to §§ 41-22-118 — 41-22-124, copies of which catalogues shall be sent by it to …

(a) All receipts from the sale of prison products shall be placed to the credit of the TRICOR board, which, except as provided in this part, is authorized to expend such moneys from this fund as may be necessary to procure tools, supplies and materials, replace equipment and to e…

(a) If the TRICOR board deems it desirable to use the proceeds from sales, revenues or other funds obtained from the operation of TRICOR for the purchase or construction of buildings, roads, walls, driveways, equipment or other capital improvements, the board shall make a written…

(a) The TRICOR board is authorized and empowered to manufacture numbered motor vehicle registration plates, highway and street signs and other kindred articles for the purpose of supplying the requirements of the state as provided in this part, and to sell to other cities, counti…

(a) The department of revenue is authorized and directed to contract for and purchase from the TRICOR board the requirements of the state for automobile number plates, to be paid for as if purchased from an individual dealer. (b) The controlling feature in making such contracts s…

(a) (1) The commissioner of correction, with the approval of the governor and the appropriate commissioner, is authorized and directed to employ and work at state public works projects, such as the improvement, alteration, construction, repair or maintenance of state parks and hi…

(a) (a) There shall be no community residential facilities that accommodate state or federal adult inmates who are on work release or other community release or prerelease programs established within one thousand feet (1,000′) of a public or private school, orphanage, child care …

(a) The commissioner of correction, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with county, city or municipal governments for the purpose of renovating substandard housing of persons determined by the department of human services to be o…

(a) Subject to the conditions set out in subsection (b), the commissioner of correction is authorized to utilize inmate labor to construct, renovate or repair prison facilities, including time-building institutions, classification centers, alternative incarceration units and othe…

The commissioner of correction, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to contract with the commissioner of transportation for the use of any or all inmates, except those for which it is undesirable or impracticable in the opinion of those officials, to work outside the…

(a) The commissioner of correction, with the approval of the governor, is authorized and directed to purchase equipment, such as tools, road working machinery and motor trucks for the speedy transfer of the inmates from one point to another, that may become necessary in the judgm…

(a) The commissioner of transportation shall pay the commissioner of correction for the use of inmates employed under §§ 41-22-201 — 41-22-204 out of the highway fund or any other fund under the commissioner of transportation's control. The commissioner of correction shall in tur…

The additional amount prescribed in § 41-22-203 shall be kept and reserved in a special fund for the use and benefit of the inmates so employed. This fund is to be reserved by the commissioner of correction and with the approval of the governor, to be used in making payments to d…

On or before March 1 of each year, the commissioner of correction shall prepare a census of all male inmates in the custody of the department who, in the commissioner's judgment, are available for work on the county roads and highways of the state and shall also make an estimate …

When the census provided for in § 41-22-205 is completed, the county mayor of each county shall be notified by the commissioner of correction that certain inmates of the penitentiaries are available and subject to be employed upon the county roads, pikes and highways of the count…

The commissioner of correction may, in the commissioner's discretion, contract with a county for building highways, if that work is being done with state allocated funds. Such a contract shall be made only upon the authority of the governor and upon the approval of the commission…

In the event two (2) or more counties make application for inmate labor, the applications shall be considered in the order in which filed with the commissioner of correction; provided, that the commissioner may reject any application if the commissioner determine that the inmates…

(a) The rate of compensation for the labor of inmates of the penitentiaries shall be fixed and determined by the commissioner of correction and by the county legislative body entering into the contract and shall be in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the …

The commissioner of correction is authorized to purchase and provide all necessary equipment for the working of prisoners on the county roads, pikes and highways, and the equipment shall be paid out of the correction budget.

Inmate employment and operation in road work may be during the period beginning April 1 and ending December 1, and no inmates of the penitentiaries shall be hired or worked in any county on road work during any other period of the year.

The commissioner shall provide suitable quarters for the inmates employed on the state or county roads and all rules and regulations of the penitentiaries and all the laws applicable to the control, discipline, protection of or escape of inmates from the penitentiaries shall appl…

The commissioner is authorized to employ and designate a person or persons as quarters and road superintendents and to employ as many guards as necessary in working inmates on the county roads, pikes, highways or railroads.

Where a contract is made with any county for inmate labor, payments therefor shall be made to the commissioner by the fifteenth of each and every month during the life of the contract.

(a) Power is conferred upon the commissioner of correction, with the approval of the governor, to make and enter into agreements and contracts with the commissioner of transportation and any officer or agency of the federal government under the power conferred by any act of congr…

The county mayor, county clerk and sheriff of each county are constituted a board for their respective counties, whose duty it is to enter into contracts with public road commissioners or other officers or road contractors having the superintendence of working the public roads, f…

The contracts are to be made without delay when an inmate is confined in the county jail. It is made the duty of those having the superintendence of the working of the public roads, or road contractors, to enter into contracts immediately with the board named in § 41-22-301 for t…

(1) The contract shall be made according to the following provisions and restrictions:(1) It is the duty of the sheriff of the county to select a guard for the inmates to guard them from the time they are removed from the county jail to be put to work until returned;(2) It is the…

Inmates shall be worked on any of the public roads of the county. The same number of hours of labor per day as is required by the public road laws shall constitute a day's work. An inmate shall be allowed one dollar ($1.00) for each day's work, which amount shall be credited to t…

Any inmate refusing to work shall be fed only with one (1) meal per day until willing to render good service as a laborer and proves it by doing good work.

Work shall be under the supervision of the guard having instructions from at least two (2) members of the board of employment on what road and places and how the guard shall have the work performed.

(a) The guard shall receive for services not exceeding one dollar ($1.00) per day for each day employed, or an amount not exceeding two dollars ($2.00) per day as the sheriff shall agree to pay. The county mayor, on the order of the county legislative body, shall draw a warrant o…

This part shall not be construed to conflict with chapter 2 of this title, providing for the construction of workhouses in any county or declaring any county jail a workhouse, but shall be construed as supplementary to that chapter, and this part shall apply to such counties as a…

The county employment boards, created by this part, of any two (2) or more adjoining counties, when they deem it advisable, may combine the inmates of those counties and work them on the public roads of those counties, according to the rules and regulations provided in this part.