P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1530
The Corporation shall determine the participants’ work day and shall fix the compensation to be received by those who are under the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, taking into account the nature of the work and the way it is performed. The compensation system and other training and employment conditions shall provide sufficient incentives so as to stimulate the participants to excel and improve themselves, as well as to deter the violation of the norms and conditions to which they are subject.
In fixing compensation, the Corporation may enter into agreements with the participants subject to the regulations adopted by the Corporation, in order to separate and distribute part of the compensation that they are due, to pay, in whole or in part, for the support of their family or dependents, for child support, for penalties or restitution to crime victims, or any other personal or family obligations, and for savings. The Governing Board shall also determine the reasonable portion of their compensation that the participants shall contribute to the Correctional Fund created by virtue of this chapter.
In the event the participants are under the custody of the Correctional Administration, the amount they are entitled to shall be covered into the bank accounts that are provided for them pursuant to the provisions of § 1231 of this title, part of the Organic Act of the Correctional Administration. If the transgressors are minors, the Corporation shall establish the methods and procedures to deposit moneys belonging to the minors who participate in the Corporation’s programs in bank accounts in their behalf, by means of an agreement with the Juvenile Institutions Administration.
History —Aug. 6, 1991, No. 47, § 11; Jan. 4, 2010, No. 4, § 5.