2000 Alaska Statutes
Title 33 PROBATION, PRISONS, AND PRISONERS
Chapter 33.32. CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES
Sec. 33.32.017. ""Free venture'' correctional industries.

Sec. 33.32.017. ""Free venture'' correctional industries.

(a) Upon recommendation of the Correctional Industries Commission established under AS 33.32.070 , the commissioner may establish "Free Venture" correctional industries for the sale of goods or services to the public or private sector. A "Free Venture" correctional industry is a correctional industry that is operated and managed in total or in part by a private industry or organization within a correctional facility under an agreement entered into under AS 33.32.015 (b)(5).

(b) The commissioner shall provide security and inmate workers to the private industry or organization. The commissioner may also provide appropriate space and utilities to the private industry or organization.

(c) Unless the commissioner determines otherwise, the private industry or organization shall provide all machinery, tools, supplies, materials, transportation, training, supervisory personnel, management marketing, and insurance necessary for the operation of the "Free Venture" industry.

(d) In exchange for the inmate workers and other services provided to it, the private industry or organization shall pay to the commissioner a weekly payment in an amount not less than the sum of the existing minimum hourly wage, established under AS 23.10.065 , multiplied by the total number of hours worked during that week by inmates employed in the "Free Venture" correctional industry.

(e) The private industry or organization shall indemnify, save harmless, and defend the state, its agents, officers, and employees from liability of any kind resulting from injuries or damages sustained by a person or property as a result of the manufacture, preparation, or use of the goods or services of the "Free Venture" industry.