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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 5. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF STATE AND COUNTIES · Article 4. GRANTING SPECIAL LEAVES, EMERGENCY LEAVES, AND LIMITED LEAVE PRIVILEGES

42-5-82. Purposes for which special leave may be granted.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. A special leave may be granted for the purpose of:

  2. (1)

    Attending educational programs;#

  3. (2)

    Improving job skills;#

  4. (3)

    Attending trade licensing examinations;#

  5. (4)

    Being interviewed for employment;#

  6. (5)

    Participating in drug abuse, delinquency, or crime prevention programs;#

  7. (6)

    Participating as a volunteer for a nonprofit organization or governmental agency in an activity serving the general public; or#

  8. (7)

    For any purpose which the department deems beneficial to both the inmate and the public.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1971, p. 342, § 3; Ga. L. 1972, p. 579, § 3.

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