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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT | |
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Introduced By: Senators Mack, Anderson, Calkin, Mendes, Bell, Kallman, and DiMario | |
Date Introduced: March 17, 2022 | |
Referred To: Senate Labor | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 42-56-22 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-56 entitled "Corrections |
2 | Department" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 42-56-22. Labor by persons committed on mesne process or to answer criminal |
4 | charge. |
5 | (a) Every person who shall be committed to the adult correctional institutions to answer for |
6 | any criminal offense, whether convicted or awaiting trial, or on mesne process in any qui tam or |
7 | penal action, or on mesne process or execution in any civil action, may be permitted to labor in the |
8 | discretion of the director, or his or her designee, for the state, and in that case may be paid not more |
9 | than three dollars ($3.00) a day for every day in accordance with the minimum hourly wage set in |
10 | § 28-12-3 for every day he or she shall labor with the express consent of the director, or his or her |
11 | designee, of the department, to be credited to the prisoner's account by the assistant director of |
12 | administration, or his or her designee, and to be disbursed to the prisoner in accordance with the |
13 | rules and regulations of the institutions; provided, further, however, there shall be maintained on |
14 | account at all times at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the earnings of each prisoner up to a |
15 | maximum of one hundred dollars ($100) for those persons serving a sentence of life imprisonment |
16 | without parole under §§ 11-23-2, 12-19.2-1 et seq., and up to a maximum of one thousand dollars |
17 | ($1,000) for all other prisoners; those funds to be turned over to the prisoner at the time of his or |
18 | her release from the institution, the funds being his or her property; the moneys to be paid to the |
19 | prisoner by order of the assistant director of management services upon the general treasurer. |
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1 | (b) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the use of the funds in the account for |
2 | the payment of any court fees and court costs required to be paid for the filing, prosecution, and |
3 | defense of any action. |
4 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT | |
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1 | This act would increase the wage amount for working prisoners, committed to the adult |
2 | correctional institution, from three dollars ($3.00) a day to the minimum hourly wage amount for |
3 | most workers currently set at twelve dollars and twenty-five cents ($12.25) per hour. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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