2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 7 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 16 - LABOR BY PRISONERS
7-16-302. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Director" means the director of the state department of corrections;

(ii) "Employment" means gainful work in the community including vocational training and other educational and rehabilitative activity;

(iii) "Inmate" means a person confined in an institution;

(iv) "Institution" means the Wyoming state penitentiary, state penitentiary farms and camps, Wyoming women's center and any other state adult penal institution;

(v) "Institution administrator" means the warden, superintendent or other principal administrative officer of the institution;

(vi) "Work release" means a program whereby eligible inmates are released to employment in the community while remaining under the control of the department of corrections. Work release is not parole as defined by W.S. 7-13-401 but constitutes an extension of the limits of confinement beyond the boundaries of the institution. When not confined, inmates on work release shall be under guard of an employee of the institution or under the direct supervision and control of an employer or a member of the employer's staff designated by the institution administrator;

(vii) "Department" means the state department of corrections;

(viii) "This act" means W.S. 7-16-301 through 7-16-311.