47-5-137 - Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception.
§ 47-5-137. Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception.
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the use of offenders as servants, gardeners, chauffeurs, cooks, baby-sitters or domestic workers of any nature by an employee of the correctional system or by any other person in an individual household is hereby prohibited; provided, however, that the commissioner may use offenders for such work on the grounds of a facility of the correctional system.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 7960; Laws, 1964, ch. 378, § 40; Laws, 1974, ch. 539, § 26; Laws, 1976, ch. 440, § 66; reenacted, 1981, ch. 465, § 72; reenacted, 1984, ch. 471, § 64; reenacted, 1986, ch. 413, § 64; Laws, 1996, ch. 547, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved April 13, 1996).