KRS 439.640: Vocational training program for prisoners -- Eligibility for compensation -

- Commissioner to recommend regulations.

(1) The commissioner of the Department of Corrections may, during the last ninety (90)

days of confinement of an inmate committed to a correctional facility maintained

and operated by the department, permit an inmate to participate in a vocational

training program in the community on a voluntary basis. The vocational training

program shall be for the express purpose of permitting the inma te to improve

vocational skills to assist the inmate to secure permanent employment prior to

release by the department. The inmate shall be eligible to receive compensation

while participating in a vocational training program subject to the discharge of hi s

regular financial obligations, to include standard payroll withholding, maintenance,

support of dependents, and restitution.

(2) The commissioner shall recommend administrative regulations to implement the

provisions of the vocational training program.