148-6. Custody, employment and hiring out of convicts. [Effective until January 1, 2023]
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety shall provide for receiving, and keeping in custody until discharged by law, all such convicts as may be now confined in the prison and such as may be hereafter sentenced to imprisonment therein by the several courts of this State. The Division shall have full power and authority to provide for employment of such convicts, either in the prison or on farms leased or owned by the State of North Carolina, or elsewhere, or otherwise; and may contract for the hire or employment of any able-bodied convicts upon such terms as may be just and fair, but such convicts so hired, or employed, shall remain under the actual management, control and care of the Division. (1895, c. 194, s. 5; 1897, c. 270; 1901, c. 472, ss. 5, 6; Rev., s. 5391; C.S., s. 7707; 1925, c. 163; 1933, c. 172, s. 18; 1957, c. 349, s. 10; 1967, c. 996, s. 13; 2007-398, s. 2; 2011-145, s. 19.1(h); 2012-83, s. 61; 2017-186, s. 2(xxxxxx).)
148-6. Custody, employment and hiring out of convicts. [Effective January 1, 2023]
The Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction shall provide for receiving, and keeping in custody until discharged by law, all such convicts as may be now confined in the prison and such as may be hereafter sentenced to imprisonment therein by the several courts of this State. The Division shall have full power and authority to provide for employment of such convicts, either in the prison or on farms leased or owned by the State of North Carolina, or elsewhere, or otherwise; and may contract for the hire or employment of any able-bodied convicts upon such terms as may be just and fair, but such convicts so hired, or employed, shall remain under the actual management, control and care of the Division. (1895, c. 194, s. 5; 1897, c. 270; 1901, c. 472, ss. 5, 6; Rev., s. 5391; C.S., s. 7707; 1925, c. 163; 1933, c. 172, s. 18; 1957, c. 349, s. 10; 1967, c. 996, s. 13; 2007-398, s. 2; 2011-145, s. 19.1(h); 2012-83, s. 61; 2017-186, s. 2(xxxxxx); 2021-180, s. 19C.9(p).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 148 - State Prison System
Article 1 - Organization and Management.
§ 148-2 - Prison moneys and earnings[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-3 - Prison property[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-4.1 - Release of inmates[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-5 - Secretary to manage prison property[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-5.1 - Confining inmates away from victims.
§ 148-5.5 - (Contingent expiration see note) Training and authority of security guards.
§ 148-6 - Custody, employment and hiring out of convicts[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-8 - Transferred to § 66-58(b)(15) by Session Laws 1975, c730, s2.
§ 148-8.1 - Transferred to § 66-58(b)(16) by Session Laws 1975, c730, s3.
§ 148-10 - Department of Adult Correction to supervise sanitary and health conditions of prisoners.
§ 148-10.1 - Employment of clinical chaplains for inmates[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-10.3 - Electronic monitoring costs[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-10.4 - Statewide Misdemeanant Confinement Fund[Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 148-10.5 - Facilitation of reentry[Effective until January 1, 2023]