2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 47 - PRISONS AND PRISONERS; PROBATION AND PAROLE
Chapter 5 - Correctional System.
47-5-567 - Inmates ineligible for unemployment compensation or worker's compensation.
§ 47-5-567. Inmates ineligible for unemployment compensation or worker's compensation.
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, no inmate shall be eligible for unemployment compensation or workmen's compensation whether employed by the corporation or by any other private enterprise operating on the grounds of a correctional institution or elsewhere where such employment shall be a part of a correctional work program or work release program of either the corporation or the department.
Sources: Laws, 1990, ch. 534, § 19; reenacted and amended, Laws, 1996, ch. 547, § 28, eff from and after passage (approved April 13, 1996).
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