Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, after the commissioning and implementation of a marketing feasibility study for any proposed new prison industry, the corporation may establish such prison industry. Before any new industry is established, the corporation shall hold a hearing to determine the impact such industry may have on the private sector market. The corporation shall provide adequate and advance notice regarding the nature, time, date and place of such hearing. After the hearing which is required under this section, the corporation may commence negotiations with the State Department of Corrections, with the Secretary of State, or his designee, serving as a mediator, regarding the leasing of land and other chattels for the purpose of establishing any new industry.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole
Chapter 5 - Correctional System
Mississippi Prison Industries Act of 1990
§ 47-5-531. Short title of Sections 47-5-531 through 47-5-575
§ 47-5-545. Procedures for establishing new prison industries
§ 47-5-547. Training programs or auxiliary programs associated with prison industries
§ 47-5-555. Use of inmate labor
§ 47-5-557. Inmate not agent, employee or involuntary servant of corporation; exception
§ 47-5-565. Corporation to authorize expenditures from Prison Industries Fund
§ 47-5-567. Inmates ineligible for unemployment compensation or worker's compensation
§ 47-5-571. Unauthorized sales of prison-made goods or services prohibited
§ 47-5-575. Records of corporation subject to public records act