Illinois Compiled Statutes
730 ILCS 5/3-12-1 (2026)
Useful Employment
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(730 ILCS 5/3-12-1)
(from Ch. 38, par. 1003-12-1)
Sec. 3-12-1.
Useful Employment.
The Department shall, in so far as
possible, employ at useful work
committed persons confined in institutions and facilities of the
Department, who are over the age of compulsory school attendance,
physically capable of such employment, and not otherwise occupied in
programs of the Department. Such employment shall
equip such persons with
marketable skills, promote habits of work and responsibility and contribute
to the expense of the employment program and the committed person's cost
of incarceration.
(Source: P.A. 86-450.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1994–2010 · leading case: Ernst v. Parkshore Club Apts. Ltd. P'ship, 863 F. Supp. 651 (N.D. Ill. 1994).
Ernst v. Parkshore Club Apts. Ltd. P'ship, 863 F. Supp. 651 (N.D. Ill. 1994). “See 730 ILCS 5/3-12-1 (Corrections Employment Program).”
People Ex Rel. Dept. of Corr. v. Hawkins, 951 N.E.2d 837 (Ill. App. Ct. 3d Dist. 2010). “Hawkins maintains that to adopt the Department's interpretation of the statutes would be to undermine the legislative purpose for creating the prison employment systemto provide an inmate with a means in which to reimburse the state in part for the cost of his incarceration, to…”
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