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(2) The hours so fixed shall leave one rest day a week and sufficient time for education and other
activities required as part of the treatment and rehabilitation of the prisoners.
76. (1) There shall be a system of equitable remuneration of the work of prisoners.
(2) Under the system prisoners shall be allowed to spend at least a part of their earnings on approved
articles for their own use and to send a part of their earnings to their family.
(3) The system should also provide that a part of the earnings should be set aside by the
administration so as to constitute a savings fund to be handed over to the prisoner on his release.
Education and recreation
77. (1) Provision shall be made for the further education of all prisoners capable of profiting thereby,
including religious instruction in the countries where this is possible. The education of illiterates and
young prisoners shall be compulsory and special attention shall be paid to it by the administration.
(2) So far as practicable, the education of prisoners shall be integrated with the educational system of
the country so that after their release they may continue their education without difficulty.
78. Recreational and cultural activities shall be provided in all institutions for the benefit of the mental
and physical health of prisoners.
Social relations and after-care
79. Special attention shall be paid to the maintenance and improvement of such relations between a
prisoner and his family as are desirable in the best interests of both.
80. From the beginning of a prisoner's sentence consideration shall be given to his future after release
and he shall be encouraged and assisted to maintain or establish such relations with persons or
agencies outside the institution as may promote the best interests of his family and his own social
rehabilitation.
81. (1) Services and agencies, governmental or otherwise, which assist released prisoners to reestablish themselves in society shall ensure, so far as is possible and necessary, that released
prisoners be provided with appropriate documents and identification papers, have suitable homes and
work to go to, are suitably and adequately clothed having regard to the climate and season, and have
sufficient means to reach their destination and maintain themselves in the period immediately
following their release.
(2) The approved representatives of such agencies shall have all necessary access to the institution
and to prisoners and shall be taken into consultation as to the future of a prisoner from the beginning
of his sentence.
(3) It is desirable that the activities of such agencies shall be centralized or co-ordinated as far as
possible in order to secure the best use of their efforts.
B. Insane and mentally abnormal prisoners
82. (1) Persons who are found to be insane shall not be detained in prisons and arrangements shall be
made to remove them to mental institutions as soon as possible.
(2) Prisoners who suffer from other mental diseases or abnormalities shall be observed and treated in
specialized institutions under medical management.
(3) During their stay in a prison, such prisoners shall be placed under the special supervision of a
medical officer.