§ 170. Contracts prohibited.
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§ 170. Contracts prohibited. 1. The commissioner shall not, nor shall
any other authority whatsoever, make any contract by which the labor or
time of any incarcerated individual in any state or local correctional
facility in this state, or the product or profit of his or her work,
shall be contracted, let, farmed out, given or sold to any person, firm,
association or corporation; except that the incarcerated individuals in
said correctional institutions may work for, and the products of their
labor may be disposed of to, the state or any political subdivision
thereof, any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the
state, or any political subdivision thereof, provided that no
incarcerated individual shall be employed or assigned to engage in any
activity that involves obtaining access to, collecting or processing
social security account numbers of other individuals.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be lawful for
an incarcerated individual of the department to work in an institution
of the department in the manufacture and production of goods, including
but not limited to, license plates, identification plates and insignia
for vehicles, and for the department to sell or otherwise dispose of for
profit such goods to the government of the United States or to any state
of the United States, or political subdivision thereof, or any public
corporation or eleemosynary association or corporation funded in whole
or in part by any federal, state or local funds.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an incarcerated
individual may be permitted to leave the institution under guard to
voluntarily perform work for a nonprofit organization. As used in this
section, the term "nonprofit organization" means an organization
operated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes,
no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any
private shareholder or individual.