Massachusetts Appeals Court October 22, 1985 (Longval v. Commissioner of Correction)

Pursuant to G. L. c. 127, § 48A, as amended through St. 1960, c. 590, the commissioner of correction has set up a system of compensating inmates who perform “good and satisfactory work” in certain work programs. The statute permits the superintendent of any correctional institution to expend on behalf of an inmate “one half of the money so earned by [that] inmate . . .