Effective: January 1, 2004
Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly
The labor or time of any person confined in any workhouse or jail shall not be let, farmed out, given, sold, or contracted to any person. Work performed under a work-release program authorized under section 5147.28 of the Revised Code is not in violation of this section.
This section does not apply to any person serving a periodic sentence under division (B) of section 2929.26 of the Revised Code, insofar as that person is engaged between periods of confinement in the person's regular trade or occupation for the support of the person or the person's family. This section does not apply to prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Section 5147.07 | Purchasing Supplies.
Section 5147.12 | Labor of Prisoners Not to Be Sold.
Section 5147.14 | Authority to Procure Equipment.
Section 5147.15 | Employment of Prisoners.
Section 5147.16 | Purchase or Lease Beds of Limestone, or Other Suitable Road-Building Material.
Section 5147.17 | Sentence of Hard Labor in County.
Section 5147.18 | Duty of County Commissioners to Work Prisoners at Hard Labor.
Section 5147.19 | Control of Prisoners at Hard Labor.
Section 5147.20 | Resentence of Prisoner Sick or Incapacitated for Work.
Section 5147.21 | Board of County Commissioners May Employ Superintendent.
Section 5147.22 | Earnings of Prisoners.
Section 5147.27 | Temporary Details to Specified Labor.
Section 5147.28 | Court May Establish Work-Release Program.
Section 5147.29 | Collection and Disbursal of Prisoner's Earnings From Work-Release Program.