Section 14-7-7 Purpose of chapter. - Alabama Statutes

Section 14-7-7

Purpose of chapter.

It is hereby declared to be the intent of this chapter:

(1) To provide more adequate, regular and suitable employment for the vocational training and rehabilitation of the prisoners of this state, consistent with proper penal purposes;

(2) To utilize the labor of prisoners for self-maintenance and for reimbursing this state for expenses incurred by reason of their crimes and imprisonment; and

(3) To effect the requisitioning and disbursement of prison products directly through established state authorities without possibility of private profits therefrom.

(Acts 1976, No. 286, p. 319, §2.)