South Carolina § 24-3-160 Costs of maintaining inmates by State institutions.

South Carolina Statutes

§ 24-3-160 — Costs of maintaining inmates by State institutions.

South Carolina § 24-3-160

Title 24CORRECTIONS, JAILS, PROBATIONS, PAROLES AND PARDONS

Ch. 3STATE PRISON SYSTEM

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Bluebook

S.C. Code Ann. § 24-3-160 (2026).

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An institution of this State getting inmates from the state prison system by any act or joint resolution of the General Assembly is required to pay to the Director of the Department of Corrections all monies expended by him for transportation, guarding, clothing, and feeding the inmates while working for the institutions and also for medical attention, and the officer in charge of any such institution also shall execute and deliver to the director, at the end of each year, a receipt of five dollars and fifty cents each month for the work of each inmate so employed.

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An institution of this State getting inmates from the state prison system by any act or joint resolution of the General Assembly is required to pay to the Director of the Department of Corrections all monies expended by him for transportation, guarding, clothing, and feeding the inmates while working for the institutions and also for medical attention, and the officer in charge of any such institution also shall execute and deliver to the director, at the end of each year, a receipt of five dollars and fifty cents each month for the work of each inmate so employed.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 55-336; 1952 Code SECTION 55-336; 1942 Code SECTION 1980; 1932 Code SECTION 1978; Cr. C. '22 SECTION 962; Cr. C. '12 SECTION 974; 1908 (25) 1201; 1960 (51) 1917; 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 403; 2010 Act No. 237, SECTION 13, eff June 11, 2010. Effect of Amendment The 2010 amendment substituted "inmate" and "inmates" for "convicts" and "convicts", substituted "Prison system" for "Penitentiary", and made other nonsubstantive changes.