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Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-539: Miss. Code Ann. § 47-5-539

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  1. MS Code
  2. 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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