The corrections and criminal rehabilitation department [corrections department] may, by appropriate rules and regulations, establish and administer a plan for the payment of prisoners who perform useful services as prison labor. The payment shall be at a rate depending on the skill and efficiency of the prisoner.
History: 1953 Comp., § 42-1-49.1, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 145, § 1; 1973, ch. 262, § 1; 1975, ch. 203, § 1; 1977, ch. 257, § 73; 1981, ch. 122, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
See compiler's notes to 33-2-1 NMSA 1978.
Cross references. — For inmate pay under the Corrections Industries Act, see 33-8-8 NMSA 1978.
For payment of convict's net earnings to his family, see N.M. Const., art. XX, § 15.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 60 Am. Jur. 2d Penal and Correctional Institutions §§ 168, 169.
18 C.J.S. Convicts §§ 13 to 15.