Section 11-10-7-2 - Programs for employment of offenders by private persons; establishment; lease of land and improvements(a) The commissioner may establish programs for the employment of offenders by private persons. In establishing these programs, the commissioner may enter into agreements with any private person under which that person establishes, by construction, lease, or otherwise, facilities within the exterior boundary of any state adult correctional facility, for the manufacture and processing of goods or any other business, commercial, or agricultural enterprise.(b) In administering this chapter, the commissioner may, as a part of or in connection with any agreement made under subsection (a), lease, for not more than twenty (20) years, land, with the improvements on it, located on the grounds of any state correctional facility for use by the private party to that agreement for providing employment under this chapter.As added by Acts1979 , P.L. 120, SEC.3. Amended by Acts1980 , P.L. 87, SEC.4.