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197.070 Employment of prisoners -- Manufacture of clothing -- Industrial training.
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The Department of Corrections shall provide employment for all prisoners in the
penitentiaries and it shall exhaust every resource at its command to provide
employment for all prisoners in its custody.
The department shall acquire necessary equipment and materials and have
manufactured all clothing, except that privately furnished, that is needed for the
usual and suitable clothing of all state prisoners, and of all inmates in all state
institutions, who are required to be clothed by the state. The department shall
acquire equipment for the manufacture and production of all other state supplies,
that in the reasonable discretion of the department is deemed practicable, and shall
have the products manufactured, sold, and distributed as provided in this chapter.
The department shall establish industrial training in the penitentiaries and shall
classify state prisoners according to the uses for prison labor and ability and talent
of the prisoners, utilizing the best available local talent and other talent that may be
obtained at an economical and practical cost, and shall select a suitable number of
guards with the qualifications, when possible, and thereby avoid duplicate expense.
Effective: July 14, 1992
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 50, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 344, sec. 25, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts
ch. 74, Art. V, sec. 24(14). -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 76, sec. 1. -- Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3828c3.
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