N.M. Const. art. XX, § 15
The penitentiary is a reformatory and an industrial school, and all persons confined therein shall, so far as consistent with discipline and the public interest, be employed in some beneficial industry; and where a convict has a dependent family, his net earnings shall be paid to said family if necessary for their support.
Cross references. — For prohibition on leasing convict labor, see N.M. Const., art. XX, § 18.
Inmates not "employees". — Notwithstanding the fact that prison industries must comply with occupational health and safety standards, inmates engaged in prison-operated industries or enterprises are not "employees" of the penitentiary for purposes of filing an occupational health and safety complaint with the environmental improvement division. 1981 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 81-23.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 21 Am. Jur. 2d Criminal Law §§ 588, 604, 606; 60 Am. Jur. 2d Penal and Correctional Institutions §§ 100, 162 to 166, 168, 169.
Liability for death of or injury to prisoner, 46 A.L.R. 94, 50 A.L.R. 268, 61 A.L.R. 569.
Liability of lessee of convict labor for injury to convict, 46 A.L.R. 106, 50 A.L.R. 268, 61 A.L.R. 569.
Mandamus, under 28 USCS § 1361, to obtain change in prison condition or release of federal prisoner, 114 A.L.R. Fed. 225.
18 C.J.S. Convicts §§ 13 to 15; 72 C.J.S. Prisons and Rights of Prisoners §§ 59, 63.