2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 197 - PENITENTIARIES
.140 Prisoners not eligible to be worked outside prison.

Download as PDF 197.140 Prisoners not eligible to be worked outside prison. No prisoner who is serving a sentence for rape, attempted rape, or who has been convicted of robbery in the first degree, assault in the first degree, or who has been sentenced to life imprisonment shall be worked or released for work outside of the walls of the prison until he has actually served within the walls of the prison for at least one (1) year of his sentence and has been classified as minimum custody according to the Department of Corrections classification system. No prisoner who has escaped or attempted to escape from an adult correctional institution or local detention center or jail within the past five (5) years shall be worked or released for work outside of the walls of the prison. Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 53, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 497, sec. 10, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 386, sec. 34. -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 166, sec. 1. -- Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3828b-10.