2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 7 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 16 - LABOR BY PRISONERS
7-16-303. Authority to establish programs; participants; conditions; revocation.

(a) Each institution administrator is authorized and directed to establish a work release program at their respective institutions for the rehabilitation, education and betterment of selected inmates and to allow inmates serving their sentences to work in gainful employment in the community. The establishment, regulation and control of work release programs is the responsibility of each institution administrator with the approval of the director. The programs shall operate by supplementing established penal or parole procedures established by law.

(b) Each institution administrator may recommend eligible inmates to the department for participation in a work release program. The department shall:

(i) Study the inmate's conduct, attitude and behavior while imprisoned, his criminal history and all other pertinent case history material;

(ii) Determine whether the inmate's participation in the work release program will be of benefit to the public and to the inmate and whether there is reasonable cause to believe that the inmate will honor his trust as a work release participant; and

(iii) Approve, reject, modify, or defer action on the recommendation.

(c) If an inmate is approved for participation in a work release program, the institution administrator shall adopt a work release plan for the inmate containing terms and conditions which the inmate shall agree to in writing before being released from the confines of the institution. A signed copy of the plan shall be delivered to the department. As one (1) of the conditions, the plan shall specify where the inmate shall be maintained or confined while in the work release program when not engaged in the work release employment.

(d) Approval of an inmate's participation in a work release program may be revoked at any time by the department if the inmate violates the terms and conditions of his plan or if the purposes of the inmate's work release plan are not being accomplished. Upon revocation the inmate shall be returned to the institution.

(e) For purposes of this act:

(i) A male inmate incarcerated in a correctional facility operated by a private entity pursuant to W.S. 7-22-102 shall be deemed to be an inmate of the Wyoming state penitentiary;

(ii) A female inmate incarcerated in a correctional facility operated by a private entity pursuant to W.S. 7-22-102 shall be deemed to be an inmate of the Wyoming women's center.