Mississippi Constitution

Article 10, § 225 — Placement of convicts on state farms; prison industries; reformatory schools; good behavior

Mississippi Const. art. 10, § 225

This text of Mississippi Const. art. 10, § 225 (Placement of convicts on state farms; prison industries; reformatory schools; good behavior) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Mississippi primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Miss. Const. art. 10, § 225.

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The Legislature may place the convicts on a state farm or farms and have them worked thereon or elsewhere. It may also provide for the creation of a nonprofit corporation for the purpose of managing and operating a state prison industries program which may make use of state prisoners in its operation. It may establish a reformatory school or schools, and provide for keeping of juvenile offenders from association with hardened criminals. It may provide for the commutation of the sentence of convicts for good behavior, and for the constant separation of the sexes, and for religious worship for the convicts.

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History

SOURCES: 1869 art XII § 28; Laws, 1990, ch. 599, eff December 19, 1990. NOTE: The 1990 amendment to Section 225 of Article 10 of Mississippi Constitution of 1890 was proposed by Laws, 1990, ch. 599 (House Concurrent Resolution No. 99, Part I), was ratified by the electorate on November 6, 1990, and was inserted as a part of the Constitution by proclamation of the Secretary of State on December 19, 1990.

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