February 10, 2005, Introduced by Senators BIRKHOLZ, GOSCHKA and HAMMERSTROM and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1968 PA 15, entitled
"Correctional industries act,"
by amending section 7 (MCL 800.327), as amended by 1996 PA 537.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 7. The department of corrections shall provide as fully
as practicable for the employment of inmates in tasks consistent
with the penal and rehabilitative purposes of their imprisonment
and with the public economy. The types of employment shall be as
follows:
(a) Routine maintenance and operation of correctional
institutions.
(b) Educational and rehabilitation activities, whether formal
or through productive or socialized activities, determined on the
basis of individual needs and educability.
(c) Productive or maintenance labor on or in connection with
the institution farms, or other land rented or leased by the
department of corrections, factories, shops, or other available
facilities for the production and distribution of correctional
industries products and services. In addition to any other type of
employment provided under this subdivision, inmates shall be
employed in the production of caskets for the burial of deceased
indigent persons whose burial is the responsibility of this state.
The burial caskets shall be provided to the family independence
agency or to any other state department or agency that is
responsible for the burial of deceased indigent persons.
(d) Labor assignments on state public works, ways, or
properties when and as requisitioned by the governor or on county,
township, or district roads when requested by the county board of
commissioners
pursuant to section 1 of Act No. 181 of the Public
Acts
of 1911, being section 800.101 of the Michigan Compiled Laws
1911 PA 181, MCL 800.101.
(e) Labor assignments in private manufacturing or service
enterprises established under section 7a.