Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-539: Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-539
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- MS Code
- Title 47
For the purposes of Sections 47-5-531 through 47-5-575 , the following terms shall have the following meaning unless the context shall provide otherwise:
(a) “ Chief executive officer ” means the chief executive officer of the corporation established under this chapter.
(b) “ Corporation ” means the private nonprofit corporation which is required to be organized and formed to carry out the provisions of Sections 47-5-531 through 47-5-575 regarding prison industries.
(c) “ Department ” means the State Department of Corrections.
(d) “ Inmate ” means any person under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Department of Corrections who is incarcerated within any of the following state, regional or private correctional facilities:
(i) Central Mississippi Correctional Facility;
(ii) Marshall County Correctional Facility;
(iii) Mississippi State Penitentiary;
(iv) Delta Correctional Facility;
(v) Mississippi Correctional Institute for Women;
(vi) South Mississippi Correctional Institution;
(vii) Walnut Grove Correctional Facility;
(viii) Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility;
(ix) Carroll/Montgomery County Regional Correctional Facility;
(x) George/Greene County Correctional Facility;
(xi) Bolivar County Correctional Facility;
(xii) Chickasaw County Regional Correctional Facility;
(xiii) Holmes/Humphreys County Correctional Facility;
(xiv) Issaquena County Correctional Facility;
(xv) Kemper/Neshoba County Regional Correctional Facility;
(xvi) Jefferson/Franklin County Correctional Facility;
(xvii) Leake County Correctional Facility;
(xviii) Marion/Walthall County Correctional Facility;
(xix) Washington County Regional Correctional Facility;
(xx) Yazoo Regional Correctional Facility;
(xxi) Stone County Correctional Facility;
(xxii) Winston/Choctaw County Correctional Facility;
(xxiii) East Mississippi Correctional Facility; and
(xxiv) Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.
(e) “ Prison industry program ” means any program which is considered to be a part of any prison industry in this state.
(f) “Prison agricultural enterprises” means all agricultural endeavors as defined in Section 47-5-353 .
(g) “ Work initiative ” or “ initiative ” means the program authorized in Section 47-5-579 .
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