Payment of prisoners for services

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.