Wages of Prisoners
Definition
The disputed question of what, if anything, a prisoner must be paid for compelled or voluntary work, settled in India as a fair state-fixed rate rather than the statutory minimum wage.
Related terms
- Correctional Programmes
- The structured education, vocational training, prison labour and self-governance activities a prison runs to prepare a sentenced person for release rather than...
- Prison Education
- Adult literacy classes, school-equivalency programmes such as India's National Institute of Open Schooling, and, in fewer prisons, distance-learning higher education.
- Prison Labour
- Work performed by inmates in prison industries; compulsory as part of a rigorous-imprisonment sentence, and the subject of a long-running wage dispute.
- Prisoners' Panchayat
- An elected body of inmates given defined administrative functions inside the jail, modelled on the rural village panchayat, most developed at open...
- Vocational Training
- Trade-specific instruction, such as tailoring, carpentry or welding, meant to be matched to labour-market demand outside the prison rather than to whatever...
- Participative Management
- The framework, used at Tihar Central Jail among others, of extending elected inmate representation into closed-prison administration.
Explained in these topics
- Correctional Programmes and Prison Panchayats (UGC-NET Unit VIII)
- Correctional Programmes: Education, Work, and Prisoner Self-GovernanceThe remuneration, if any, paid for prison labour, and the legal question of whether it must approach open-market or minimum-wage rates.