Correctional Industries Act

The Correctional Industries Act governs the operation of state-run business enterprises that employ prison inmates, creating a division of correctional industries, guided by an advisory committee, with authority over its own personnel, budgeting, pricing, records, and business operations. It finances and supplies that operation through mechanisms such as revenue bonds and the transfer of surplus state property, designates the division as the sole authority over correctional industries, assigns it responsibility for producing motor vehicle license plates, and requires state agencies to buy from it. The act further authorizes joint ventures and agreements under which private entities and other organizations train and employ inmates, provides for inmate participation terms including financial payment incentives and a canteen, vending, and library account, and permits the use of inmate labor for public-service work such as disaster relief and waste tire clean-up.

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