CGS § 18-85. Compensation of persons who are incarcerated. Deposit in account. Disbursement priorities.

History: 1969 act replaced jails with community correctional centers; P.A. 77-614 required consultation with commissioner of administrative services and secretary of the office of policy and management rather than with council of correction and personnel policy board; P.A. 87-282 deleted reference to “superintendent”; P.A. 88-300 amended provision re disbursement of compensation by requiring following priorities as Subdivs. (1) to (9): Federal taxes due, restitution or compensation to crime victim, payment of civil judgment, victims compensation, state taxes due, support of dependents, travel expense to and from work, costs of board and payment of fine; P.A. 93-310 changed commission on victim services to office of victim services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 04-234 amended Subdiv. (8) to replace “costs of his board as determined by the commissioner” with “costs of such inmate's incarceration under section 18-85a and regulations adopted in accordance with said section” and made a technical change, effective June 8, 2004; P.A. 07-158 inserted Subsec. designators (a) and (b), amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “compensation” for “sums”, add “in an inmate's individual account” and provide that funds from such account may be transferred to the inmate's discharge savings account, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 13-69 amended Subsec. (b) by substituting references to Commissioner of Correction for references to administrative head of institution or facility, and warden or Community Correctional Center Administrator, replacing requirement that compensation be deposited in inmate's individual account with requirement that deposit be in account in a savings bank or state bank and trust company in this state or in account administered by State Treasurer, adding new Subdiv. (8) re deposits credited to inmate's discharge savings account under Sec. 18-84a, redesignating existing Subdivs. (8) and (9) as Subdivs. (9) and (10), amending redesignated Subdiv. (10) by substituting reference to correctional facility for reference to community correctional center, and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 18-155 deleted former Subsec. (b)(8) re deposits credited to inmate's discharge savings account under Sec. 18-84a and redesignated existing Subsec. (b)(9) and (10) as Subsec. (b)(8) and (9); P.A. 21-85 provided that upon an inmate's release earned compensation be paid in the form of a debit card, effective January 1, 2022; P.A. 23-204 amended Subsec. (a) to designate provision re encouragement of inmate skill and industry as Subdiv. (1) and add Subdiv. (2) re establishment of $5 to $10 pay range; P.A. 24-137 replaced references to inmate and inmates with references to persons who are incarcerated, person or persons or incarcerated person or persons throughout and amended Subsec. (a)(2) by replacing “pay rate” with “pay range” and replacing language providing for not less than $5 per week, but not more than $10 per week with language providing for not less than $1 per day with higher rates of pay based upon skill level or other factors.