2024 -- S 2471 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024 | |
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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, Bissaillon, Acosta, Zurier, Gu, Kallman, Murray, | |
Date Introduced: February 12, 2024 | |
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 the director’s designee, for the state, and in that case may be paid not |
9 | more than three dollars ($3.00) five dollars ($5.00) a day for every day the person shall labor with |
10 | the express consent of the director, or the director’s designee, of the department, to be credited to |
11 | the prisoner’s account by the assistant director of administration, or the assistant director’s |
12 | designee, and to be disbursed to the prisoner in accordance with the rules and regulations of the |
13 | institutions; provided, further, however, there shall be maintained on account at all times at least |
14 | twenty-five percent (25%) of the earnings of each prisoner up to a maximum of one hundred dollars |
15 | ($100) for those persons serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole under §§ 11-23-2, |
16 | 12-19.2-1 et seq., and up to a maximum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for all other prisoners; |
17 | those funds to be turned over to the prisoner at the time of the prisoner’s release from the institution, |
18 | the funds being the prisoner’s property; the moneys to be paid to the prisoner by order of the |
19 | 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 minimum wage amount for any person committed to the adult |
2 | correctional institution from three dollars to five dollars a day for every day the person shall labor. |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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