439.640 Vocational training program for prisoners -- Eligibility for compensation -
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- Commissioner to recommend regulations.
(1)The commissioner of the Department of Corrections may, during the last ninety
days of confinement of an inmate committed to a correctional facility maintained
and operated by the department, permit an inmate to participate in a vocational
training program in the community on a voluntary basis. The vocational training
program shall be for the express purpose of permitting the inmate to improve
vocational skills to assist the inmate to secure permanent employment prior to
release by the department. The inmate shall be eligible to receive compensation
while participating in a vocational training program subject to the discharge of his
regular financial obligations, to include standard payroll withholding, maintenance,
support of dependents, and restitution.
(2)The commissioner shall recommend administrative regulations to implement the
provisions of the vocational training program.