NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1011

HOUSE BILL 205

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION FOR A VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING BUILDING AT THE WOMEN'S CORRECTIONAL CENTER IN RALEIGH.

 

Whereas, the Women's Correctional Center in Raleigh has an academic instruction program but has only limited facilities for vocational training, and

Whereas, the Center presently has programs to provide vocational testing and counseling; and

Whereas, the Center presently has programs for job placement services and community readiness training; and

Whereas, the Center can only place inmates in low-paying positions because it has inadequate space to teach vocational skills; and

Whereas, former inmates who are gainfully employed return to a life of crime less often than those who are unable to provide for themselves and their families upon their release from prison; and

Whereas, if the Center has a new vocational skills facility it could use the funds to facilitate the rehabilitation of these inmates and their return to free society with attitudes, knowledge, and skills that will improve their prospects of supporting their families and becoming law-abiding citizens; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of two hundred twenty thousand dollars ($220,000) for the fiscal year 1981-82 for the construction of a Vocational Skills Training Building at the Women's Correctional Center in Raleigh. Provided, however, that no funds appropriated above may be used for any purpose other than herein stated. All unused, appropriated funds shall revert to the General Fund.

Sec. 2. The Department of Correction is specifically authorized to use forced account labor to construct the Vocational Skills Training Building at the Women's Correctional Center in Raleigh.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of October, 1981.