Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, no inmate shall be eligible for unemployment compensation or workmen's compensation whether employed by the corporation or by any other private enterprise operating on the grounds of a correctional institution or elsewhere where such employment shall be a part of a correctional work program or work release program of either the corporation or the department.
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