PRISON INMATE TRAINING REFORM ACT

Section 1. This Act may be cited as the "Prison Inmate Training Reform Act."

Section 2. No person, who is incarcerated by a court of law, and is being detained in any prison, correctional facility, jail, temporary holding center, pre-release center or halfway house, shall have access to, or use of, any of the following types of equipment regardless of the reason for their sentence:

(A) Free weight equipment, commonly known as "barbells" or "dumbbells."

(B) Weight machine equipment that utilizes weight plates, tension bands, or any similar device that provides weight training resistance.

(C) Any exercise device or equipment designed to increase muscle mass and/or strength.

(D) Any other device deemed by correctional facility personnel that would allow an inmate to increase their physical strength, and thus physical risk, to corrections personnel, or upon their release, police officers or potential crime victims.

Section 3. No person, who is incarcerated by a court of law, and is being detained in any prison, correctional facility, jail, temporary holding center, pre-release center or halfway house, shall have access to, or use of, any of the following programs, whether the programs are supported by state, federal, or local funds, or provided by incarcerated volunteers or employees or outside donations or volunteers:

(A) Boxing

(B) Wrestling

(C) Karate, Judo, or Martial arts of any form

(D) Any other program deemed by correctional facility personnel that would allow an inmate to increase their physical strength, and/or fighting skills, and thus physical risk, to corrections personnel, or upon their release, police officers or potential crime victims.

Section 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit an inmate from engaging in physical activities, such as, basketball, jogging, stationary exercise bicycles, calisthenics supervised by corrections staff, and forms of exercise that do not allow an inmate to increase their physical strength, and/or fighting skills, and thus physical risk, to corrections personnel, or upon their release, police officers or potential crime victims.

Section 5. Any facility that permits such prohibited activities will remove and suspend all equipment and prohibited training programs immediately upon enactment of this bill. Failure to comply with this section will result in a $10,000 per day fine, levied against the facility.

Section 6. All weight lifting and boxing equipment in the possession of any of the aforementioned such correctional facilities will be liquidated as follows:

(A) All such equipment will be given to that facilities correctional officer's association for us in the correctional officer and staff recreation area by corrections personnel.

(B) Extra equipment not utilized by the correctional officers association will be donated through lottery drawing to law enforcement agencies in the surrounding area for use by law enforcement personnel.

(C) Any remaining equipment not utilized by corrections officers or law enforcement agencies will be donated through lottery drawing to emergency medial service, or fire and rescue service agencies, for use by their personnel.

(D) All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are repealed.

Section 7. {Severability clause.}

Section 8. {Repealer clause.}

Section 9. {Effective date.}