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1 1 Section 1. Section 356.16, Code 2001, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 356.16 HARD LABOR.
1 4 Able-bodied persons over the age of sixteen, confined in
1 5 any jail under the judgment of any tribunal authorized to
1 6 imprison for the violation of any law, ordinance, bylaw or
1 7 police regulation, may be required to labor during the whole
1 8 or part of the time of their sentences, as hereinafter
1 9 provided, and such tribunal, when passing final judgment of
1 10 imprisonment, whether for nonpayment of fine or otherwise,
1 11 shall have the power to and shall determine whether such
1 12 imprisonment shall be at hard labor or not. The county and
1 13 its officers, employees, and agents are not liable for any
1 14 injury caused by implementing and conducting any type of labor
1 15 program under this section including a hard labor program,
1 16 unless the injury is the result of gross negligence on the
1 17 part of the county, its officers, employees, or agents.
1 18 Sec. 2. Section 85.1, Code 2001, is amended by adding the
1 19 following new subsection:
1 20 NEW SUBSECTION. 7. Any person confined as a prisoner in a
1 21 county jail or confined in any other facility in lieu of
1 22 confinement in a county jail.
1 23 Sec. 3. Section 85.62, Code 2001, is repealed.
1 24 EXPLANATION
1 25 This bill relates to prisoner labor at county jails. The
1 26 bill provides that a county which implements a labor program,
1 27 including a hard labor program at a county jail, is not liable
1 28 for any injury to a prisoner, unless the county, its officers,
1 29 employees, or agents were grossly negligent. The bill also
1 30 provides that a prisoner is not eligible to collect workers'
1 31 compensation benefits for injuries sustained while working.
1 32 LSB 1213XS 79
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