Definitions

1. "Custody" means incarceration in a facility operated by the department or under contract with the department. 2. "Department" means the department of corrections and rehabilitation. 3. "Inmate" means a person in the custody of the department. 4. "Penitentiary" means the North Dakota state penitentiary and its affiliated facilities. 5. "Prison industries work program" means any inmate work program operated through roughrider industries. 6. "Released from custody" means released on parole, released on community corrections placement, released on conditional pardon, or discharged from any facility operated by the department or under contract with the department. 7. "Subsequent period of incarceration" means incarceration resulting from revocation of parole, revocation of conditional pardon, revocation of community corrections release, or revocation of probation, or incarceration pursuant to a criminal judgment. 8. "Wages", for purposes of calculating disability benefits under the program of modified workers' compensation, means the money an inmate earns while working in a prison industries work program, before deductions from earnings. The term does not include the reasonable value of room, board, medical care, or other services provided by the department and does not include income from any source other than working in a prison industries work program.