New Jersey § 30:4-98

§ 30:4-98.

The State Board shall have power to: a. Assign to each institution the industries, occupations, vocations and labor to

be operated or performed by the inmates thereof, but no new industry shall be established

in any institution nor shall any existing industry be enlarged materially except by

consent of the State House Commission; b. Establish for each institution and for each industry, occupation and vocation,

hours and days of labor, determine the rate of compensation to be paid therein and

pay or cause the same to be paid to the worker or his dependents, or apportion the

pay between the worker and his dependents; c. Procure and install in each institution the machinery and equipment and furnish

the tools, supplies, raw materials, seeds, fertilizers and articles necessary for

the operation of the assigned industries and the performance of the assigned occupations

and vocations with relation to the determined standards of quality and quantity; d. Establish standards of machinery, equipment, tools, supplies, raw materials; adopt

in conjunction with the Division of Purchase and Property in the State Department

of Taxation and Finance, styles, patterns, designs and qualities of finished products;

determine the cost of production and fix the selling price thereof; e. Establish a uniform system of accounting and cost of production for materials and

labor including maintenance and wage payments; f. Prepare and issue a catalogue containing a description and price list of all articles

manufactured or produced by all the institutions within its jurisdiction; g. Assign any number of the inmates of any institution to the performance of labor

outside the usual limits of the institution of which they are inmates, of whatever

character and wherever, within the boundaries of this State, may be determined by

the State Board; provided, such labor shall only be employed in enterprises of a

public nature or connected with the public welfare or in such work in such places

as may be necessary to meet any emergency arising from scarcity of labor on farms. Such labor shall be performed under the direct supervision of an officer or officers

authorized by the commissioner; h. Pay from the working capital account or any other funds at its disposal, for the

transportation of such laborers to and from the place of detention to the place of

assigned labor, and for the proper clothing, maintenance, guarding and medical attention

of the assigned laborers; i. Determine the amount to be charged for the labor of such inmates as may be assigned

to any work for any other department or branch of the State Government not included

within the jurisdiction of this department, and contract and agree with the chief

executive officer thereof as to the performance of the work, the rate to be paid therefor,

the number of inmates to be assigned and such other details as may be necessary and

proper; j. Determine and apportion between the institution furnishing the labor and the institution

receiving the benefit thereof the cost of such labor and expenses incident thereto,

when such labor is assigned from one institution to another within the jurisdiction

of the department; k. Detail keepers, guards or attendants from the employees of any institution as guards

for the inmates thereof when out of the institution on assigned labor or to hire additional

keepers or guards as may be necessary, paying therefor from the working capital account

of such institution and including the cost thereof in the calculated cost of such

labor; l. Perform as an independent contractor, with the labor of the inmates of the institutions

within its jurisdiction, any public work, either upon the lands of the State or elsewhere;

and m. Employ the inmates of any or all of the institutions within its jurisdiction upon

any work for the United States Government or any department thereof, upon such terms

as the State Board may determine.