Miss. Const. art. 10, § 225
- Constitution
- Constitution of Mississippi
- Text as of
- October 2026
What does this section say?
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. SOURCES: 1869 art XII §28; Laws 1990, ch. 599, effective December 19, 1990 NOTE: 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.
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