Article X, Mississippi Constitution

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Article 10 of the Mississippi Constitution is entitled The Penitentiary and Prisons. It has four sections, one of which has been repealed.

Section 223

	Text of Section 223: Repealed.

Amendments

• Former Section 223 provided that no lease or hiring of penitentiary convicts after December 31, 1984, be undertaken unless in compliance with Section 224 and that prior lease arrangements not extend beyond that date.

• The repeal of Section 223 was proposed by Laws 1990, ch. 599, House Concurrent Resolution No. 99, Part II, and upon ratification by the electorate on November 6, 1990, was deleted by proclamation of the Secretary of State on December 19, 1990.

Section 224

Text of Section 224: Employment of Convicts on Public Roads, Public works or Public Levee Projects The legislature may authorize the employment under state supervision and the proper officers and employees of the state, of convicts on public roads or other public works, or by any levee board on any public levees, under such provisions and restrictions as it may from time to time see proper to impose; but said convicts shall not be let or hired to any contractors under said board, nor shall the working of the convicts on public roads, or public works, or by any levee board ever interfere with the preparation for or the cultivation of any crop which it may be intended shall be cultivated by the said convicts, nor interfere with the good management of the state farm, nor put the state to any expense.

Section 225

Text of Section 225: Placement of Convicts on State Farms; Prison Industries; Reformatory Schools; Good Behavior The Legislature may place the convicts on a state farm or farms and have them worked thereon or elsewhere. It may also provide for the creation of a nonprofit corporation for the purpose of managing and operating a state prison industries program which may make use of state prisoners in its operation. It may establish a reformatory school or schools, and provide for keeping of juvenile offenders from association with hardened criminals. It may provide for the commutation of the sentence of convicts for good behavior, and for the constant separation of the sexes, and for religious worship for the convicts.

Amendments

• The 1990 amendment to Section 225 was proposed by Laws 1990, ch. 599, House Concurrent Resolution No. 99, Part I, and upon ratification of the electorate on November 6, 1990, was inserted by proclamation of the Secretary of State on December 19, 1990.

Section 226

	Text of Section 226: Hire or Lease of County Jail Inmates Convicts sentenced to the county jail shall not be hired or leased to any person or corporation outside of the county of their conviction after the first day of January, A.D. 1893, nor for a term that shall extend beyond that date.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Mississippi SOS, "Mississippi Constitution" (HTML)
• Mississippi SOS, "Mississippi Constitution" (PDF)
• Mississippi Department of Archives and History, "Mississippi History Timeline"
• Mississippi History Now, "Constitutions of Mississippi"
• Mississippi History Now, "Mississippi Constitution of 1890"
• Mississippi History Now, "Mississippi Constitution of 1868"
• Mississippi History Now, "Mississippi Constitution of 1832"
• Mississippi History Now, "Mississippi Constitution of 1817"

Additional reading

• Winkle, John W. (2014). The Mississippi State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• L.A. Times, "148 years later, Mississippi ratifies amendment banning slavery"