2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 33 - Correctional Institutions
Article 8 - Corrections Industries
Section 33-8-16 - Corrections; handiwork products.
The secretary of corrections and criminal rehabilitation [secretary of corrections] shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for the production of small articles of handiwork by inmates from raw materials furnished by the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department [corrections department] at inmate expense and for the deposit of all or a portion of the sale price of such articles to the general account of the inmate who manufactured the article. Articles of handiwork may be sold to the public at correctional facilities and in public buildings.
History: Laws 1981, ch. 167, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Laws 1980, ch. 150, § 3, renamed the former criminal justice department as the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department and renamed the former corrections division within that department as the adult institutions division. Laws 1981, ch. 73, § 3 renamed the former corrections and criminal rehabilitation department as the corrections department. Laws 1981, ch. 73, § 4, provided that the chief officer of the corrections department shall be the secretary of corrections. See 9-3-3 and 9-3-4 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto.
