The commissioner of corrections may provide for the payment to prisoners confined in the state prisons of such pecuniary earnings, and render to their families such pecuniary assistance, as the commissioner of corrections may deem proper, under such rules as he may prescribe.
Source. 1913, 178:1. PL 400:27. RL 464:25. RSA 622:29. 1998, 386:16, eff. Aug. 26, 1998.