Are prisoners paid to work in prison?

Reform-through-labour prisoners work in prisons without pay.

According to the relevant laws and regulations, the state guarantees the funds needed by prisons to reform criminals. The funds for the people's police, the reform of criminals, the living expenses of criminals, prison facilities and other special funds are included in the national budget.

Reeducation through labor, referred to as reeducation through labor, is a criminal management method used in socialist countries such as People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was introduced from the former Soviet Union in 1950s.

A slogan and slogan that often appears in prisons, through the forced labor of prisoners, achieves the purpose of approval by managers. In China and abroad, reeducation through labor and reeducation through labor are often confused, and China officials also refer to them as "secondary labor", but they are completely different. The latter is an administrative punishment system.

In the reform through labor, the reform-through-labor institutions implement the policy of "combining punishment control with ideological reform, combining labor production with political education" and "reforming first, then producing". They not only carry out military control and forced labor, but also carry out ideological and political education, give revolutionary humanitarian treatment in life and urge them to turn over a new leaf. Abuse and corporal punishment are strictly prohibited.

Reform-through-labour institutions set up prisons and reform-through-labour teams to exercise different supervision over criminals according to the nature and severity of their crimes. Establish a reformatory for juvenile offenders and carry out educational reform. If a reform-through-labour institution finds an error in the judgment or a prisoner files a complaint during the execution of the penalty, it shall refer it to the people's procuratorate or the people's court that originally pronounced the sentence for handling. Criminals who have served their sentences shall be issued with release certificates and released on schedule. Criminals who do show repentance should be rewarded with praise, material rewards, meritorious deeds, commutation or parole. However, commutation and parole shall be put forward in writing by the executing organ and submitted to the people's court for review and ruling. If a criminal commits a new crime while serving his sentence, he shall report to the people's court and be sentenced according to law.

Article 3 of the Prison Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) implements the principle of combining punishment with reform and combining education with labor to transform criminals into law-abiding citizens.