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.
Bracketed 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.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 33 - Correctional Institutions
Article 2 - State Correctional Facilities
Section 33-2-1 - Adoption of rules.
Section 33-2-3 - [Previous matters unimpaired.]
Section 33-2-4 - [Transfer of title to new corporation.]
Section 33-2-5 - Disposition of unneeded property.
Section 33-2-6 - Improvements in penitentiary; labor by convicts.
Section 33-2-7 - Penitentiary; conflict of interest[; penalties].
Section 33-2-8 - [Accepting compensation from contractor; aiding escape of prisoner; penalties.]
Section 33-2-9 - Corrections department; contracts; gifts; penalties.
Section 33-2-10 - Penitentiary; rules and regulations.
Section 33-2-11 - Corrections department powers; complaints.
Section 33-2-12.1 - Corrections; family visits.
Section 33-2-14 - Penitentiary; fire.
Section 33-2-15 - Penitentiary; duties.
Section 33-2-17 - Id.; accounts; paying over funds.
Section 33-2-18 - Id.; collection and disbursement of funds.
Section 33-2-19 - What convicts to be confined.
Section 33-2-20 to 33-2-25 - Repealed.
Section 33-2-26 - Payment of prisoners for services.
Section 33-2-29 - Penitentiary; disease.
Section 33-2-30 - [Enforcing commands to prisoners; when wounding or killing justified.]
Section 33-2-31 - [Suppressing disorder; escape and arrest; when wounding or killing justified.]
Section 33-2-32 - Penitentiary; record of misconduct.
Section 33-2-34 - Eligibility for earned meritorious deductions.
Section 33-2-36 - Forfeiture of earned meritorious deductions.
Section 33-2-37 - Restoration of forfeited meritorious deductions.
Section 33-2-38 - Computation of term.
Section 33-2-39 - [Separate sentences construed as cumulative.]
Section 33-2-43 - Penitentiary inmate-release program; establishment.
Section 33-2-44 - Inmate-release program; standards for participation.
Section 33-2-45 - Inmate-release program; visitation privileges.
Section 33-2-46 - Inmate-release program; escape.
Section 33-2-47 - Inmate-release program; conditions of employment.
Section 33-2-49 - Applicability [of Laws 1988, Chapter 78].
Section 33-2-51 - Discharge; opioid use disorder; opioid overdose education; naloxone.