HB 2834-S.E - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/18/92)

      Designates a strategy for reducing upwardly spiraling prison costs through an inmate work responsibility program, preserving scarce prison cell space for our most dangerous offenders, and providing judges with alternatives to incarceration without jeopardizing public safety.

      Directs the secretary to increase inmate participation in class I and class II correctional industries until twenty-five percent of the eligible inmates are employed by December 30, 1996, and fifty percent by December 30, 1998.

      Requires a deposit of a percentage of wages earned in a personal savings account up to a minimum of two hundred fifty dollars.