New Mexico Statutes Chapter 33. Correctional Institutions § 33-2-43. Penitentiary inmate-release program; establishment

A. employment of a prisoner does not result in the displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services and is not in a skill, craft or trade in which a surplus of available gainful labor exists in the locality;

B. rates of pay and other conditions of employment are not less than those paid or provided for work of a similar nature in the locality in which the work is performed;

C. prisoners authorized to work at paid employment under the inmate-release program are required to pay appropriate and reasonable costs incident to the program and to their confinement as prescribed by the superintendent; and

D. prisoners participating in the inmate-release program are volunteers who meet standards prescribed by law.