WEST virginia legislature
2022 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4107
By Delegates Toney, Rowan, Paynter, Booth, Dean, Ferrell, Conley, and Cooper
[Introduced January 17, 2022; Referred to the Committee on Select Committee on Jails and Prisons then the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia,1931, as amended, relating to making all inmates regardless of sex eligible to work on a state convict road force.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. STATE CONVICT ROAD FORCE.
§17-5-1. State convict road force; how used.
All male persons
convicted of a felony and, sentenced to imprisonment or confinement in the
penitentiary a correctional facility by any court, or who may
hereafter be sentenced for a felony, whether actually sentenced to labor or
not, or so many thereof as may be required by the state road highways
commissioner, shall, as incident to such sentence or confinement, constitute
the state convict road force and as such may be employed under the supervision
of the state road highways commissioner in building, surfacing
and maintaining roads under the supervision of the state road highways
commissioner, including all roads in the state road system, and in and about
any quarries, gravel pits, sandbanks, crushers, brick kilns, or other plants
and places operated by the state road commission Division of Highways
for the manufacture and acquisition of materials for use in the construction,
maintenance and repair of such roads.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to make all state inmates regardless of sex members of the state convict road force.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.