This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Correctional Industries Act”. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 927, § 10, effective August 1. Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 27-25-101 as it existed prior to 1977.
The general assembly hereby finds and declares that, to the extent possible, all able-bodied offenders should be employed and that the means now provided for the employment of offenders are inadequate to allow a forty-hour-week work assignment for all able-bodied offenders and for correctional industries programs to be operated on a financially profitable basis. Therefore, […]
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: “Able-bodied offender” means an offender in the custody of the department who is to participate in a work program or other productive activity authorized by this article and who is physically able to do so. The term does not include an offender who is participating […]
There is hereby created in the department of corrections the division of correctional industries, which shall be under the direction of the director of correctional industries, who shall be appointed by the executive director of the department of corrections pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution. The division shall constitute an […]
The director shall have considerable business operations experience, including the supervision and management of production operations. The director shall have the authority to determine the personnel needs and requirements of the programs and shall have the authority to hire all subordinate personnel pursuant to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution. Source: L. […]
In addition to any other powers granted to the division by this article 24, the division shall have the following powers: To provide programs which are profit-oriented, which generate revenue for their operation and capital investment, and which partly reimburse the general fund for the use of inmate labor for the expense of adult correctional […]
Subject to the prior approval of the correctional industries advisory committee acting by resolution in accordance with the provisions of section 17-24-104 (5) and from both houses of the general assembly acting either by bill or joint resolution, the division may, in accordance with the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, authorize and issue […]
As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (Deleted by amendment, L. 2002, p. 218 , § 1, effective April 3, 2002.) “State agency” means this state or any department or other agency of the state, but not including the department of transportation or the Auraria higher education center established in article 70 […]
The account of all moneys received by and disbursed on behalf of the division shall also be a public record. Any public record of the division shall be open for inspection by any citizen. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 930, § 10, effective August 1.
Any employee or any other agent or adviser of the division who has a direct or indirect interest in any contract or transaction with the division shall disclose this interest to the division. No such employee or other agent or adviser having such an interest shall participate on behalf of the division in the authorization […]
The division shall establish programs that provide license plates and highway signs for the state. Repealed. All vocational training programs, personnel, inventories, and equipment shall be resources dedicated to the establishment of the correctional industries program. The executive director shall designate a portion of the real property at each correctional institution as an industry area, […]
The division may purchase such equipment, machinery, and other materials as may be necessary to manufacture and deliver motor vehicle license plates, temporary registration plates and certificates, validating tabs or decals, road signs, markers, and metal badges used by any department and manufactured under the authority of this article. Each year the executive director of […]
The division shall establish a system of financial payments to serve as an incentive for more effective and efficient performance of its programs. The division shall be provided, from the diagnostic services unit of the division of adult parole, personnel testing services that perform a vocational assessment of work experience and training needs; from the […]
The director is hereby authorized to develop programs that produce goods and services, including capital construction items, which are used by agencies financed in whole or in part by the state, any political subdivision thereof, or the federal government and to develop programs that produce goods, including capital construction items, which are used by public […]
The division shall fix and determine the prices at which all labor is performed and at which all goods and services produced are sold. Such prices for industry products shall be as near the prevailing market prices for similar goods and services and quality as is practical. Such prices, other than prices for agricultural products, […]
The division is hereby authorized, within appropriations which may be at its disposal, to procure or cause to be procured and maintained all necessary materials, supplies, space, services, and equipment required for the proper operation of the division. The division shall require that the operation of industries be conducted on a thorough-going business basis, and […]
The director shall make all offender work assignments within the division. Each such offender work assignment shall take into account the diagnostic services unit recommendation of employment training needs of the offender and the security classification of the offender as determined by the superintendent of each correctional institution. The director shall establish the rate of […]
Pursuant to article 4 of title 24, C.R.S., the director has the power to promulgate the rules and regulations which are deemed necessary for the implementation of this article. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 934, § 10, effective August 1. Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 27-25-110 as it existed […]
The division shall have sole authority for operating any programs within the adult correctional institutions of this state. Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 934, § 10, effective August 1.
The division, after consultation with the respective superintendents of the correctional facilities and with the director of the division of adult parole, is authorized to contract with any corporation, association, labor organization, or private nonprofit organization or with any federal or state agency for the purpose of training or employing offenders who have been committed […]
