Purpose

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It is the purpose of this part to:

  1. Authorize the commissioner of correction to establish demonstration-type projects involving inmate labor and private industry to be known as Tennessee restitution industries;
  2. Authorize the commissioner to contract with private industry to lease state land, improvements and facilities at adult correction institutions for the establishment of restitution industries;
  3. Provide for the employment of the inmates of the institution by private industries and the term of employment; and
  4. Designate the uses to be made of deductions from wages earned by inmate employees.


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