It is the purpose of this part to:(1) Authorize the commissioner of correction to establish demonstration-type projects involving inmate labor and private industry to be known as Tennessee restitution industries;(2) Authorize the commissioner to contract with private industry to lease state land, improvements and facilities at adult correction institutions for the establishment of restitution industries;(3) Provide for the employment of the inmates of the institution by private industries and the term of employment; and(4) Designate the uses to be made of deductions from wages earned by inmate employees.Acts 1977, ch. 151, § 1; T.C.A., § 41-2401.
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