PENAL INSTITUTIONS Use of Inmates for Private Gain: Authorize Use of Inmates as Voluntary Labor for Privately Owned Profit-Making Employers Producing Goods and Services for Sale to Public and Private Purchasers; Authorize Georgia Correctional Industries Administration to Enter into Service Contracts with Privately Owned Profit-Making Employers Producing Goods and Services for Sale to Public and Private Purchasers; Provide for Determinations by the Georgia Department of Labor as to Whether Inmates Would be Displacing Other Workers and Whether Labor Shortages Exist

Authors

Randall WhartonFollow

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

HB 1173 would have amended Chapters 1, 5, and 10 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated to allow inmates to volunteer for certain jobs in private industries. Additionally, it would have allowed the private sale of inmate-produced goods, directed the Georgia Department of Labor to ensure that inmates did not displace other and that officials only use inmate labor in areas where labor shortages existed, and allowed penal authorities to enter into service contracts with privately owned profit-making employers producing goods and services for sale to public and private purchasers.

Recommended Citation

Randall Wharton, PENAL INSTITUTIONS Use of Inmates for Private Gain: Authorize Use of Inmates as Voluntary Labor for Privately Owned Profit-Making Employers Producing Goods and Services for Sale to Public and Private Purchasers; Authorize Georgia Correctional Industries Administration to Enter into Service Contracts with Privately Owned Profit-Making Employers Producing Goods and Services for Sale to Public and Private Purchasers; Provide for Determinations by the Georgia Department of Labor as to Whether Inmates Would be Displacing Other Workers and Whether Labor Shortages Exist, 21 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2004).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol21/iss1/10