(2006)

You have requested our opinion regarding the sale of goods by Maryland Correctional Enterprises ("MCE"), previously known as State Use Industries (SUI),1 to inmates within State correctional facilities. You state that the Division of Correction ("DOC") is contemplating an arrangement under which MCE would become the sole provider of apparel and textile goods to prison commissaries as a part of a contract with a private vendor that would centralize commissary operations. You ask to what extent sales to inmates at commissaries are governed by the State law that restricts sales of prison-made…