The Division of Prisons of the Department of Adult Correction shall provide for receiving, and keeping in custody until discharged by law, all such convicts as may be now confined in the prison and such as may be hereafter sentenced to imprisonment therein by the several courts of this State. The Division shall have full power and authority to provide for employment of such convicts, either in the prison or on farms leased or owned by the State of North Carolina, or elsewhere, or otherwise; and may contract for the hire or employment of any able-bodied convicts upon such terms as may be just and fair, but such convicts so hired, or employed, shall remain under the actual management, control and care of the Division. (1895, c. 194, s. 5; 1897, c. 270; 1901, c. 472, ss. 5, 6; Rev., s. 5391; C.S., s. 7707; 1925, c. 163; 1933, c. 172, s. 18; 1957, c. 349, s. 10; 1967, c. 996, s. 13; 2007-398, s. 2; 2011-145, s. 19.1(h); 2012-83, s. 61; 2017-186, s. 2(xxxxxx); 2021-180, s. 19C.9(p).)
§ 148-7: Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 233, s. 1.
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O'CONNOR v. Corbett Lumber Corp., 352 S.E.2d 267 (N.C. Ct. App. 1987).
· cites it 2× “G.S. 148-6. As stated earlier, the Department is responsible for placement, housing, transportation and supervision of work release inmates.”
Pharr v. Garibaldi, 115 S.E.2d 18 (N.C. 1960).
“The State’s prison policy, as defined by the General Assembly, contemplates that able-bodied prisoners shall engage in useful labor, either on the prison premises or elsewhere, G.S. 148-6, and so “reduce the cost of their keep while enabling them to acquire and retain skills and…”
State v. Ledford, 175 S.E.2d 605 (N.C. Ct. App. 1970).
“In order to sustain a conviction of this defendant for the offense of escape charged in the bill of indictment, the State must prove, among other things, from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that at the time of the escape the defendant was in the lawful cusody of the…”
Harris v. Thompson Contractors, Inc., 558 S.E.2d 894 (N.C. Ct. App. 2002).
· cites it 2× “” In addition, a prisoner on work release “shall give his work-release earnings, less standard payroll deductions required by law, to the Department of Correction.”
State v. Whitley, 142 S.E.2d 600 (N.C. 1965).
“Likewise, G.S. 148-6 provides in substance that convicts after their commitment to the Prison Department remain under the actual management, control and care of the department, and this applies to convicts employed on farms of the State, or elsewhere or otherwise.”
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