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Chapter 5 Compulsory Work
Article 52
Places where the compulsory work is enforced shall respectively establish workshops or farms under taking into account of the local society and environment. When deemed necessary, the person under imprisonment may work at a public or private factory, farm, and other working places outside of the compulsory work place after the supervisory agency grants the application.
Article 53
With regard to the enforcement of compulsory work, the gender, age, physical health, knowledge, family status, original skills, and the duration of rehabilitative disposition of the person under imprisonment shall be considered for the administration and the stipulation of courses. The enforcement is to train the living skills of the person under imprisonment, help him/her be used to physical labor, and provide him/her with the ability to obtain employment.
Article 54
The period of compulsory work shall be six (6) to eight (8) hours per day and shall be determined upon the consideration of the work type, facility status, and other circumstances. Cooking, cleaning, safekeeping, and other affairs at the working places shall be deemed as working.
Article 54-1
Days when the work shall be ceased are as follows:
1. National holidays.
2. Seven (7) days if a lineal relative or spouse is deceased. Three (3) days if a collateral relative within the third (3rd) degree of kinship is deceased.
3. Other circumstances if deemed necessary.
Regarding cooking, cleaning and other emergent works, the work shall not be ceased, except for the circumstances prescribed in Subparagraph 2 of the preceding paragraph.
Three (3) days after sent to the compulsory work place and seven (7) days prior to released, the person under imprisonment may be exempted from work.
Article 55
Rehabilitation, education, and living knowledge shall be given to the person sentenced to the disposition of compulsory work to enlighten him/her on the concept of national responsibility.
Article 56
The rehabilitation and education referred to in the preceding article may be enforced through different types or in an individual manner and shall be limited to two (2) hours a day. It may also employ movies and music as supplementary tools and lectures given by people with moral and scholarly prestige.
Article 56-1
Where the person under imprisonment works during the disposition of compulsory work, labor wages shall be issued. The amount of the wages shall be based on his/her behaviors and working performance.
If there is any concrete fact that shall be rewarded with regard to the operation referred to in the preceding paragraph, a reward shall be granted to the person under imprisonment.
Article 57
Article 38, Article 40, Article 41, Article 42, Paragraph 2, and Article 45 hereof shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Chapter.
Article 57-1
The operation income from the prison camps minus cost shall be drawn fifty percent (50%) as labor wages, and the total amount of the labor wages shall be drawn twenty-five percent (25%) as sum of indemnity for victims of crime.
The surplus of the operation income referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be drawn thirty percent (30%) as extra food expenses of the persons executed, five percent (5%) as rewarding expenses for the persons executed and five percent (5%) as rewarding expenses for work administrators. The yearly surplus shall be drawn thirty percent (30%) to improve inmates' living facilities in accordance with budget process and other seventy percent (70%) drawn as industrial foundation.
The sum of indemnity for victims of crime prescribed in Paragraph 1 shall be deposited in specific account. The living facilities bought to improve the life of the persons executed as referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be exempted from depreciation.
Article 58
The person under imprisonment shall be rewarded in one of the following situations:
1. With outstanding working performance;
2. Well-behaved and is good enough to be the model of other persons executed;
3. Reporting other persons executed who scheme to escape or act violently; or
4. Other situations sufficient to be rewarded.
Article 59
The ways of rewarding shall include the following:
1. Reward in public:
2. Issuing a certificate of merit or a medal; or
3. Other appropriate means.
Article 60
Where the person under imprisonment has bad behaviors or violates the discipline, the chief of the rehabilitative disposition place may impose one or multiple punishments as follows:
1. Reprimand in person;
2. Stopping outdoor activities from one (1) day to five (5) days;
3. Deducting the credits;
4. Stopping being visited from one (1) to three (3) times;
5. Stopping sending or receiving letters from one (1) to three (3) times; and/or
6. Increasing working hours for two (2) hours per day, limited to from one (1) to five (5) days only.
The opinions of the medical personnel shall be inquired prior to the enforcement of the punishments prescribe in Subparagraphs 2 and 6 of the preceding paragraph.
Article 61
A chance shall be given to the person under imprisonment to explain himself/herself prior to the enforcement of the punishments prescribed in the preceding article. When deemed reasonable, the punishments may be exempted.
Article 62
When the person under imprisonment suffers from injury or illness and dies afterwards due to the job operation, a pension shall be granted under taking into account of the situation.
Article 63
When the person under imprisonment is deceased, his/her labor wages or pension shall be collected by his/her closest relatives, family members, or other entitled persons.
The collection prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be completed within six (6) months after the chief of the compulsory work place delivers the notification.