Prison-Made Goods Act
Alabama · Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities · §§ 14-7-10 to 14-7-9 · 20 sections
Overview
The act governs the manufacture and sale of goods and services produced by inmate labor under a state correctional industries program, addressing how articles are specified, priced, catalogued, and made available to purchasers. Its central mechanism is a state-use purchasing requirement: state offices, agencies, and institutions must buy qualifying articles from the correctional industries program rather than from outside vendors, subject to enumerated exceptions, while political subdivisions and certain volunteer fire and rescue organizations are also permitted to purchase. It further restricts open-market sale of prisoner-made articles, establishes an industrial revolving fund that receives sale proceeds and finances operations, and imposes reporting, audit, rulemaking, and advance public-notice obligations on the corrections agency — including before it commits funds to a line of manufacturing it has not previously entered.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
Sections covered
- Ala. Code § 14-7-10Manufactured or Produced Articles or Products - Specifications.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-11Manufactured or Produced Articles or Products - Prices.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-12Manufactured or Produced Articles or Products - Catalogues; Requests for Manufacture or Production of Additional Articles or Products.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-13Manufactured or Produced Articles or Products - Requirement as to Purchase of Articles or Products by State Offices, Etc., Generally; Purchases by Political Subdivisions.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-14Manufactured or Produced Articles or Products - Exceptions as to Requirement of Purchase of Articles or Products by State Offices, Etc.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-15Reports as to Purchases by State Offices, Etc.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-16Reports as to Purchases by State Offices, Etc. - Priorities as to Purposes to Which Articles or Products to Be Devoted.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-16.1Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Organizations Purchase of Goods and Services Offered by Correctional Industries Division.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-17Reports of Annual Audits by State Auditor.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-18Preparation and Promulgation of Policies as to Administration of Chapter.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-19Authorization of Industrial Revolving Fund and Expenditures Therefrom.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-20Disposition of Proceeds from Sale, Etc., of Articles or Products; Transfer to State General Fund of Excess Funds in Industrial Revolving Fund.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-21Sale, Etc., of Surplus Agricultural Products and Personal Property.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-22Sale or Offer for Sale on Open Market of Articles or Products Manufactured by Prisoners.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-22.1Prison Industry Programs.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-23Construction of Chapter.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-6Short Title.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-7Purpose of Chapter.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-8Powers of Department of Corrections.
- Ala. Code § 14-7-9Issuance of Press Release and Notice as to Public Hearing Upon Decision of Board of Corrections to Obligate Funds to Initiation of Manufacturing in Industry in Which Not Previously Engaged.
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