47-5-303 - Declaration of purpose. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 47-5-303. Declaration of purpose.
 

The aims and purposes of Sections 47-5-301 through 47-5-327 are: 
 

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

(b) To effect the requisitioning and disbursement of penitentiary products directly through established state authorities and to permit the sale of such products to the public. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1978, ch. 408, § 2; Laws, 1981, ch. 516, § 1; brought forward, 1984, ch. 471, § 76; reenacted, 1986, ch. 413, § 76, eff from and after passage (approved March 28, 1986).