31-131. Operation of inmate industry program; special services fund; application of earnings
A. On approval of the county board of supervisors, the sheriff may operate an inmate industry program and for that purpose may employ personnel, purchase equipment and incur other necessary expenses for the operation and management of the program, making payment therefor through the use of monies in the special services fund established pursuant to section 31-121 and proceeds derived from the inmate industry program, or the sheriff may contract with private or public institutions within or without this state to operate an inmate industry program.
B. Any monies received in the operation of an inmate industry program shall be transmitted to the county treasurer for deposit in the special services fund. Monies deposited in the special services fund may be withdrawn by the sheriff for the operation of the inmate industry program. The special services fund is a continuing fund not subject to reversion.
C. Monies in the special services fund may be expended to pay the wages or salaries of prisoners who are sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail and who participate in the inmate industry program. The monies earned by a prisoner shall be expended monthly by the prisoner for the following purposes in the order specified:
1. If a court has ordered the prisoner to pay restitution pursuant to section 13-603, thirty per cent for the court ordered restitution.
2. Not less than thirty per cent, but not more than fifty per cent for the room and board costs of maintaining the prisoner at the county jail facility.
3. Thirty per cent for the support of the dependents of the prisoner, if any.
D. Any monies not expended by the prisoner for the purposes prescribed in subsection C of this section shall be paid to the prisoner on discharge.
E. Any monies generated by the operation of an inmate industry program shall not be included under county expenditure limitations established pursuant to article IX, section 20, Constitution of Arizona.
F. Except for monies in the special services fund, no funds from any other source shall be used for the operation of the inmate industry program.
G. The county board of supervisors may authorize an annual audit of the inmate industry program. At the end of each fiscal year, the sheriff shall prepare a financial statement of operations of the county jail inmate industry program and shall submit a copy to the county board of supervisors.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 31 - Prisons and Prisoners
§ 31-101 - Common jails; duty of sheriff; use of jails
§ 31-104 - Employment of temporary guards
§ 31-105 - Designation of jail in contiguous county; revocation of designation
§ 31-106 - Disease in jail; removal of prisoners
§ 31-107 - Emergency removal of prisoners
§ 31-122 - Receiving and keeping federal prisoners
§ 31-123 - Confinement of person committed to jail
§ 31-124 - Segregation of prisoners; males and females; minors and adults
§ 31-125 - Duty of sheriff to deliver judicial papers to prisoner
§ 31-126 - Examination of certain prisoners for mental disorder
§ 31-127 - Abuse of prisoner; classification
§ 31-128 - Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification
§ 31-129 - Taking prohibited articles into jail; violation; classification; definitions
§ 31-130 - Destruction of or injury to public jail; classification
§ 31-131 - Operation of inmate industry program; special services fund; application of earnings
§ 31-132 - Duty to deliver medical records
§ 31-222 - Research and evaluation programs
§ 31-223 - Use of force by correctional officers
§ 31-224 - Duty to deliver medical records
§ 31-225 - Attendance of prisoner in court
§ 31-226.01 - Emergency transfer procedures
§ 31-227 - Expenses of prosecution; reimbursement of counties
§ 31-229 - Functional literacy program; evaluation; certificate; exemptions; wages; definition
§ 31-229.01 - Functionally literate inmates; education requirement; rules; inmate fees; definition
§ 31-229.02 - Functionally literate inmates; release eligibility
§ 31-230 - Prisoner spendable accounts; fees
§ 31-231 - Unauthorized communication with prisoner; classification; definition
§ 31-232 - Family considerations in prisoner placement and visitation rules
§ 31-235 - Prisoner correspondence; definitions
§ 31-237 - Dedicated discharge accounts
§ 31-238 - Incarceration costs; setoff
§ 31-240 - Prisoner education services budget; prohibited uses
§ 31-241 - Inmate complaints to boards; procedure
§ 31-242 - Internet access; violation; classification; definitions
§ 31-141 - Enforcement of sentence imposing hard labor; employment of prisoners; definition
§ 31-142 - Use of prisoners on public works
§ 31-143 - Use of prisoners by county engineer
§ 31-144 - Double time allowance for work done outside jail as trusty
§ 31-145 - Allowance for hard labor in reduction of fine
§ 31-250 - Definition of work crew
§ 31-251 - Hard labor required of prisoners; labor classification; definition
§ 31-252 - Use of prisoners in public works; cooperative prisoner labor system; definitions
§ 31-253 - Use of prisoners in prison construction; definition
§ 31-255 - Alcohol abuse treatment fund
§ 31-256 - Prisoner training; individual certificates; requirements
§ 31-161 - Inmate health care; costs
§ 31-162 - Inmate health services fund; audit
§ 31-164 - Inmate health insurance pools
§ 31-165 - Inmate medical services; rate structure
§ 31-203 - Persons disqualified as officers or employees
§ 31-204 - Interest of employee in contracts; gifts to or from prisoner; penalty
§ 31-206 - Chaplains; duties; traditional Native American religious practitioners
§ 31-261 - Sale or exchange of products of individual prisoners
§ 31-271 - Adult correctional facility; multiple confinement
§ 31-281 - Transition program; report; definition
§ 31-282 - Contracted entities; duties; services; definition
§ 31-284 - Transition program fund
§ 31-285 - Transition program release; report
§ 31-321 - Prisoner participation in approved programs
§ 31-322 - Approval of programs
§ 31-334 - Earnings of prisoner
§ 31-342 - Escape; liability for costs incurred in apprehension
§ 31-401 - Board of executive clemency; qualifications; appointment; officers; quorum; meeting
§ 31-402 - Powers of board; powers and duties of governor; powers and duties of executive director
§ 31-403 - Commutation; restrictions on consideration
§ 31-404 - Wilful failure to pay; revocation of parole or community supervision
§ 31-412 - Criteria for release on parole; release; custody of parolee; definition
§ 31-414 - Absolute discharge of parolee; effect; notice to victim
§ 31-417 - Notification to board of parole violator; hearing; reimprisonment
§ 31-441 - Application for pardon; statement of facts proved at trial
§ 31-442 - Application for pardon; notice; exceptions
§ 31-443 - Power of governor to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons
§ 31-444 - Power of governor to suspend sentence for treason pending consideration by legislature
§ 31-446 - Report to legislature
§ 31-467 - Adoption of interstate compact for the supervision of adult offenders
§ 31-467.01 - Parole or probation violation; retaking; notice; hearing; custody pending hearing
§ 31-467.03 - Hearing rights of parolee or probationer
§ 31-467.04 - Hearings in other states; effect
§ 31-467.05 - Extradition; retrieval
§ 31-467.06 - Supervision fee; deposit; drug testing costs
§ 31-467.07 - Interstate compact for the supervision of adult offenders; eight-year review
§ 31-471 - Western interstate corrections compact
§ 31-473 - Enforcement of compact; hearings in compliance with compact
§ 31-475 - Right of transferred prisoner on release from prison outside this state
§ 31-481 - Agreement; authorization; contents
§ 31-482 - Matters pertaining to agreement