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NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-41 - Rules and regulations for employment of prisoners; guards and attendants; cost of work

30:8-41. Rules and regulations for employment of prisoners; guards and attendants; cost of work  Prisoners employed under section 30:8-40 of this title shall be under the custody and control of the board of chosen freeholders who shall make rules and regulations governing their employment and employ necessary guards and attendants while prisoners are so employed and fix their duties, salaries and terms of employment. The compensation of guards and attendants, the wages or earnings paid to prisoners as hereinafter provided and other necessary expenses in connection with their employment shall be included in and charged against the cost of such work.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-42 - Workhouse inmates

30:8-42. Workhouse inmates  The county governing body may establish a wage system for payment to prisoners for services in work carried on by such governing body or by any board, commission or institution that receives funds from the county. Such wage system may include all prisoners employed in any work or service necessary for the maintenance of the workhouse or penitentiary or their inmates. The wage allowed each prisoner shall not exceed fifty cents for each day of eight hours' work by such prisoners. In the payment of wages to prisoners preference shall be given to those who have persons legally dependent upon them for support.  The county governing body is authorized to withdraw from moneys paid to prisoners sufficient moneys, in an amount not to exceed one-third of the inmate's total income, as may be required to pay any penalty assessment, restitution or fine ordered as part of any sentence.  Amended by L. 1985, c. 251, s. 5, eff. July 31, 1985.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-43 - Support of dependents

30:8-43. Support of dependents  When a prisoner has a wife, child or children or others legally dependent upon him, or her, for support, the earnings of such prisoner shall be disbursed through the county probation office to such dependents, or to the society or institution having the care or custody of such dependents, or any of them, as the court may direct, and the order of the court relative to payments of such earnings may be modified at any time thereafter as the court may determine, but the court may order that the fines, penalty assessments, restitution, and costs may be first charged against and deducted from the earnings of such prisoner. The county governing body shall make rules and regulations relative to the disposition of the earnings of all prisoners, and may designate an officer or employee of the county as the disbursing agent of such funds.  When the earnings of any such prisoner have been unclaimed for a period of one year after the discharge of any such prisoner from imprisonment, the county probation officer shall pay to the county treasurer of the county such unclaimed sums of money, for the use of the county; provided, however, that at any time within two years after such moneys have been turned over to the use of the county, any person or persons claiming to own the said money, in addition to any other remedy now provided by law, may make application, upon giving ten days' prior notice thereof to the county treasurer, to the court for an order declaring such moneys to be the property of such person or persons, and ordering the same to be returned to such person or persons by the county treasurer. Upon proof that such person or persons are entitled to said moneys, the court shall issue an order directing the county treasurer to pay such moneys over to such person, which order and payment shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge of the county treasurer.  Amended by L. 1948, c. 17, p. 65, s. 1; L. 1953, c. 29, p. 536, s. 55; L. 1985, c. 251, s. 6, eff. July 31, 1985.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-44 - Work release or vocational training of certain prisoners or incarcerated persons.

30:8-44 Work release or vocational training of certain prisoners or incarcerated persons.  1. In any county in which the governing body, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, approves the application of this act and designates a county work release administrator who may be the sheriff, warden or other person, a person convicted of any offense, except as otherwise provided in section 2 of P.L.1994, c.153 (C.30:8-44.1) and sentenced to the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary of the county or a person incarcerated in the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary pursuant to the Rules of Court for contempt of an order or judgment issued by the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part may be placed at outside labor or permitted to attend a vocational training course operated or sponsored by a public or private agency in the county by order of the court by which the sentence or order of incarceration was imposed, or by the assignment judge of the county in which the sentence or order of incarceration was imposed, at the time such person is sentenced or incarcerated or at any time thereafter during the term of the sentence or term of incarceration. A work release order may include permission for release from confinement during specified hours to care for the offender's family. Such order may be revoked by the court which granted it at any time.  The Department of Corrections shall prepare and enforce regulations for the operation of this act in accordance with the provisions thereof.  L.1968,c.372,s.1; amended 1969, c.243; 1994, c.153, s.1; 1997, c.425.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-44.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-44.1 - Ineligibility for work release program

30:8-44.1. Ineligibility for work release program  2. No person confined to a county correctional facility shall be eligible to participate in any work release or vocational training release program if he has been convicted of any of the following:  a. Any crime involving a sexual offense or child molestation as set forth in N.J.S.2C:14-1 et seq.;  b. Any crime endangering the welfare of children or incompetents which concerns sexual conduct which would impair or debauch the morals of the child or an incompetent, as set forth in N.J.S.2C:24-4 and N.J.S.2C:24-7;  c. Any crime involving the manufacture, transportation, sale or possession, with the intent to sell or distribute, of a "controlled dangerous substance" or a "controlled dangerous substance analog," as defined in the "Comprehensive Drug Reform Act of 1986," P.L.1987, c.106 (C.2C:35-1 et al.); or  d. Any crime involving the use of force or the threat of force upon a person or property including: armed robbery, aggravated assault, kidnapping, arson, manslaughter and murder.  L.1994,c.153,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-45 - Conditions

30:8-45. Conditions  Every county work release and vocational training release program shall, however, be subject to the following conditions: (a) Representatives of local union central bodies or similar labor union organizations shall be consulted as to the general program for such placements; (b) That such placements shall not result in the displacement of employed workers, or be made in skills, crafts or trades in which there is a surplus of available gainful labor in the locality, or impair existing contracts for services; and (c) That the rates of pay and other conditions of the placements shall not be less than those paid or provided for work of a similar nature in the locality in which the work is to be performed. L.1968, c. 372, s. 2, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-46 - Employment; reasonable wages and hours; employment by county

30:8-46. Employment; reasonable wages and hours; employment by county  If the person so placed at outside labor has been regularly employed, arrangements shall be made for a continuation of said work insofar as possible without interruption. If not employed in any job, every effort shall be made to secure some suitable employment. Any such person so employed shall be paid a fair and reasonable wage for such work and shall work at fair and reasonable employment and hours per day and per week. If suitable private outside employment cannot be found for any prisoner, such prisoner may be employed by the county if work is available and shall receive therefor a fair and reasonable wage and shall work at fair and reasonable hours per day and per week. L.1968, c. 372, s. 3, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-47 - Employment in another county

30:8-47. Employment in another county  The court may by order authorize the work release administrator to whom any person placed at outside labor is committed to arrange with another work release administrator for the employment of the prisoner in the other's county, and while so employed to be in the other's custody but in all other respects to be and continue subject to the commitment. L.1968, c. 372, s. 4, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-48 - Confinement in jail or workhouse

30:8-48. Confinement in jail or workhouse  Whenever such person is not employed, and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in jail or workhouse. L.1968, c. 372, s. 5, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-48.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-48.1 - Program for housing in institution or facility operated by nonprofit organization; ordinance or resolution; inmates; eligibility; transfers

30:8-48.1. Program for housing in institution or facility operated by nonprofit organization; ordinance or resolution; inmates; eligibility; transfers  a. The governing body of any county which has adopted the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement may, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, establish a program for the housing in an institution or facility operated by a nonprofit organization providing for the care, custody, subsistence, education, training, and welfare of inmates, of any person at outside labor or permitted to attend a vocational training course. b. Upon the adoption of the ordinance or resolution any eligible inmate may be transferred to such nonprofit institution or facility by order of the sentencing judge at the time of sentencing, or by the sentencing judge or the assignment judge of the county at any time during the term of the sentence. The court or the assignment judge ordering the transfer of an inmate shall do so on the basis of whether or not the transfer of the inmate to the facility or institution is appropriate to the needs and welfare of the inmate and other inmates, and to the security of the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary. The sentencing judge or the assignment judge shall designate the institution or facility to which the person is to be transferred and may, at any time, require that an inmate residing in the facility or institution be sent to the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary to serve the remainder of the sentence. L.1981, c. 265, s. 1, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-48.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-48.2 - Contracts; standards

30:8-48.2. Contracts; standards  The governing body of a county which has adopted an ordinance or resolution pursuant to this act shall enter into contracts for the housing of inmates with any organization operating a facility or institution designated by the sentencing judge or assignment judge. It shall be the responsibility of the county governing body or its designated representative to insure that each facility or institution is a secure and appropriately supervised place of confinement and that all units are inspected annually. The county governing body may promulgate standards to insure that facilities and institutions were inmates are residing are appropriate for the housing of such persons. L.1981, c. 265, s. 2, eff. Aug. 16, 1981.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-49 - Work release earnings

30:8-49. Work release earnings  The earnings of such person shall be collected by the work release administrator and the employer shall be notified by registered mail, which notice shall include a copy of the order placing the person at outside labor. From such earnings, payment shall be made for the following purposes and in the order listed:  (1) Board and personal expenses of such person inside and outside of jail or workhouse.  (2) Court costs, court-ordered penalty assessments, restitution and fines.  (3) After written notice to the appropriate welfare board the legally ascertained support of such person's dependents.  (4) Payment of debts and legal obligations of such person acknowledged by him in writing and filed with the work administrator in such form as he shall specify. Any balance of such earnings that shall remain after the payment of the above shall be retained until the person's discharge and after proper accounting, shall be paid to him.  L. 1968, c. 372, s. 6, eff. Dec. 27, 1968. Amended by L. 1985, c. 251, s. 7, eff. July 31, 1985.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-50 - Diminution of term

30:8-50. Diminution of term  Under regulations of the Department of Institutions and Agencies, he may be granted a diminution of not more than 1/4 of his term if his conduct, diligence and general attitude merit such diminution. L.1968, c. 372, s. 7, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-51 - Violation of conditions

30:8-51. Violation of conditions  In case of the violation of the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody and employment, any person placed at outside labor or for study, may then be required to serve the balance of the sentence in ordinary confinement and may thereupon cancel any earned diminution of his term. L.1968, c. 372, s. 8, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-52 - Segregation from other prisoners

30:8-52. Segregation from other prisoners  Insofar as possible, persons admitted to outside labor or to a vocational training program under this act shall be segregated from other prisoners serving terms in ordinary confinement. L.1968, c. 372, s. 9, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-53 - Escape or attempt to escape

30:8-53. Escape or attempt to escape  Any person admitted to outside labor or a vocational training program under this act who shall escape or attempt to escape while in such status outside the county institution shall be deemed to have escaped and treated in accordance with the law. L.1968, c. 372, s. 10, eff. Dec. 27, 1968.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-54 - Annual appropriation of funds by counties

30:8-54. Annual appropriation of funds by counties  The board of chosen freeholders of any county may appropriate annually funds to provide for the rehabilitation and re-establishment as law-abiding citizens, of indigent persons discharged from the county jail, county penitentiary or other county institution for the confinement of persons charged with, or convicted of, crime, in order to better control the menace of the repeated commission of crime by such persons and for the protection of the public from recidivism. L.1973, c. 24, s. 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-55 - Use of funds; cash allowances to discharged jail prisoners; contracts with organizations for rehabilitation of indigent discharged jail prisoners

30:8-55. Use of funds; cash allowances to discharged jail prisoners; contracts with organizations for rehabilitation of indigent discharged jail prisoners  Said funds shall be expended in such manner as shall be fixed, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as shall be adopted, by resolution of the board, by such officers as the board shall by resolution determine; provided any cash allowance to a prisoner shall be made only after individual study of the needs and merits of each case, and, provided, further, that no cash allowance to a discharged jail prisoner shall exceed $25.00, to be paid on the day of discharge. The board may contract with an incorporated welfare or charitable group organized for the rehabilitation of indigent discharged jail prisoners. L.1973, c. 24, s. 2, eff. Feb. 8, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-56 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-56 - Advisory committee on county aid to released prisoners

30:8-56. Advisory committee on county aid to released prisoners  There is hereby established in the Department of Institutions and Agencies an Advisory Committee on County Aid to Released Prisoners which shall act in an advisory capacity to the several boards of chosen freeholders in the formulation of rules and regulations for the administration of this act in the interest of efficiency and uniformity which shall consist of the Director of the Division of Correction and Parole in that department, ex officio, and of four additional members, two of whom shall be members of the board of chosen freeholders of different counties, one of whom shall be the sheriff of a county or the county officer in charge of the county jail and one of whom shall be a county probation officer, who shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies to serve without compensation for terms of 1 year. L.1973, c. 24, s. 3, eff. Feb. 8, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-57 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-57 - County jail, workhouse or penitentiary in wilful and continuous disregard of minimum standards; phased restriction of admission of new inmates; order

30:8-57. County jail, workhouse or penitentiary in wilful and continuous disregard of minimum standards; phased restriction of admission of new inmates; order  If the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall determine that a county jail, workhouse or penitentiary is in willful and continuous disregard of the minimum standards for such facilities promulgated by the department pursuant to section 10 of P.L.1976, c. 98 (C. 30:1B-10), he shall order a phased restriction of admission of new inmates to such facility. Upon such determination, the commissioner shall notify the county governing body of his decision to impose such a restriction, which notification shall include a written statement specifying the reasons therefor. If the commissioner shall determine that no appropriate action has been initiated within 60 days following such notification to correct the violations specified in the notice, he shall order the following: a. That such county jail, workhouse or penitentiary shall immediately cease to admit persons sentenced to State penal facilities and awaiting transfer or admittance to such facilities; b. That such county jail, workhouse or penitentiary shall, upon the expiration of 30 days after such order, immediately cease to admit persons sentenced to terms in said county penal facility; and, c. That such county jail, workhouse or penitentiary shall, upon the expiration of 90 days after such order, immediately cease to admit all persons sent to said facility. Any county jail, workhouse or penitentiary so restricted shall continue under such order until such time as the commissioner determines that the violations specified in the notice have been corrected or that the facility has initiated actions which will ensure the correction of said violations. L.1979, c. 472, s. 1, eff. Feb. 27, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-58 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-58 - Location of inmates within other penal facilities

30:8-58. Location of inmates within other penal facilities  Upon the issuance of an order pursuant to section 1 of this act, the commissioner shall locate inmates assigned to any facility so restricted by such order within other State or county penal facilities. The commissioner shall determine which other State or county penal facilities have adequate room for such inmates and shall assign them on the basis of available space; provided, however, that such assignments shall conform to all statutory requirements providing for the classification of inmates. Any State or county penal facilities ordered to accept such inmates shall do so within 5 days following the issuance of an order pursuant to section 1 of this act. Any county jail, workhouse or penitentiary restricted by an order issued pursuant to section 1 of this act shall assume responsibility for all transportation of any person sent to another penal facility so long as such order shall remain in effect. L.1979, c. 472, s. 2, eff. Feb. 27, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-59 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-59 - Payment by county to department of corrections for reassigned inmates

30:8-59. Payment by county to department of corrections for reassigned inmates  The governing body of a county whose jail, workhouse or penitentiary has been prohibited from accepting new inmates, and whose inmates have been assigned to other penal facilities pursuant to section 2 of this act, shall appropriate an amount to repay the Department of Corrections for the custody, care, maintenance, and for all other services normally provided by the county to inmates of such facilities. For the first full calendar year, or portion thereof, following the effective date of this act said payment shall be $60.00 a day for each inmate, and said sum shall increase 5% per annum each year thereafter. Any facility receiving inmates pursuant to section 2 of this act shall receive from the Department of Corrections $60.00 per day for each inmate sent to the institution for the first full calendar year, or portion thereof, following the effective date of this act. Such sum shall increase by 5% per annum each year thereafter. L.1979, c. 472, s. 3, eff. Feb. 27, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-60 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-60 - Rules and regulations

30:8-60. Rules and regulations  The Department of Corrections shall after notice and hearing promulgate, pursuant to law, such rules and regulations it may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1979, c. 472, s. 4, eff. Feb. 27, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 30:8-61 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 30 - Institutions and Agencies|Section 30:8-61 - Short title

30:8-61 Short title  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation Act." L.1997,c.81, s.1.