| Chapter 161 |
| 2023 -- H 6491 Enacted 06/20/2023 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT |
Introduced By: Representatives Batista, Felix, J. Lombardi, Dawson, Potter, McEntee, Knight, Alzate, Solomon, and Sanchez |
| Date Introduced: June 07, 2023 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 42-56-22 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-56 entitled "Corrections |
| Department" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 42-56-22. Labor by persons committed on mesne process or to answer criminal |
| charge. |
| (a) Every person who shall be committed to the adult correctional institutions to answer for |
| any criminal offense, whether convicted or awaiting trial, or on mesne process in any qui tam or |
| penal action, or on mesne process or execution in any civil action, may be permitted to labor in the |
| discretion of the director, or his or her the director’s designee, for the state, and in that case may |
| be paid not more than three dollars ($3.00) a day for every day he or she the person shall labor |
| with the express consent of the director, or his or her the director’s designee, of the department, |
| to be credited to the prisoner’s account by the assistant director of administration, or his or her the |
| assistant director’s designee, and to be disbursed to the prisoner in accordance with the rules and |
| regulations of the institutions; provided, further, however, there shall be maintained on account at |
| all times at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the earnings of each prisoner up to a maximum of |
| one hundred dollars ($100) for those persons serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole |
| under §§ 11-23-2, 12-19.2-1 et seq., and up to a maximum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) two |
| thousand dollars ($2,000) for all other prisoners; those funds to be turned over to the prisoner at the |
| time of his or her the prisoner’s release from the institution, the funds being his or her the |
| prisoner’s property; the moneys to be paid to the prisoner by order of the assistant director of |
| management services upon the general treasurer. |
| (b) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the use of the funds in the account for |
| the payment of any court fees and court costs required to be paid for the filing, prosecution, and |
| defense of any action. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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