The Commissioner of Corrections may provide for agricultural production in connection with disciplinary programs, rehabilitation, inmate work projects, prison agricultural enterprise programs or any similar activity of the department; however, agricultural activities shall be conducted in a manner which are labor intensive and a minimum amount of mechanized or power-driven equipment shall be utilized to the extent practical and economically feasible.
The Department of Corrections is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with the federal government with respect to agricultural subsidies or payments.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole
Chapter 5 - Correctional System
§ 47-5-110.1. Offenders to pay costs of requested transfers between facilities
§ 47-5-113. Offenders of the United States courts
§ 47-5-115. Offenders whose capital sentences are commuted
§ 47-5-121. Separation of sexes
§ 47-5-126. Working of inmates
§ 47-5-129. Offenders to work certain roads; Sunflower County
§ 47-5-131. Offenders to work certain roads; Quitman County
§ 47-5-134. Offenders to work for Habitat for Humanity or the Fuller Center for Housing, Inc
§ 47-5-137. Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception
§ 47-5-140. Earned time handbook
§ 47-5-147. Governor may authorize payment of reward for apprehension of escaped offender
§ 47-5-149. United States offenders subject to the laws of the state
§ 47-5-151. Death of prisoner; investigations, inquests, and autopsies; fees; penalties
§ 47-5-155. Discharged offenders revolving fund
§ 47-5-173. Granting of leave for personal reasons
§ 47-5-175. Agreements to transfer state offenders to federal facilities
§ 47-5-177. Notice requirements prior to release of offenders
§ 47-5-183. Department of Corrections may create a postconviction DNA database