
The Corps of Prison and Court Guard (hereinafter referred to as the "Corps"), in fulfilling the tasks defined by Act No. 4/2001 Coll. on the Corps of Prison and Court Guard as amended, organizes and carries out activities aimed at the employment of remand prisoners and sentenced prisoners by assigning them to work in secondary economic centres or in the internal operation of remand prisons and prisons (hereinafter referred to as "prison"). The goal is to create job opportunities for remand prisoners and sentenced prisoners, conditions for acquiring or increasing the professional qualifications of sentenced prisoners, and prerequisites for their resocialization.
The issue of employing prisoners constitutes a special category of the Corps' mission, interconnected and related to other activities of the Corps within its competence. The influence and significance of the work of sentenced prisoners in the process of their resocialization is irreplaceable. Regular work activity, which, in addition to its economic benefit for themselves, persons dependent on them, as well as for the state, acts on the personality of the sentenced prisoner, on their relationship to values, and on discovering or perfecting their own abilities. Regular and purposeful work also alleviates the stress of long-term isolation in a closed community. From an economic perspective, an important contribution is the income to the prison budget from the distribution of the sentenced prisoners' work remuneration. From the executed deductions, costs of the prison sentence execution are covered, maintenance is remitted for dependent persons, and other claims of authorized persons are settled. When a sentenced prisoner does not work, part of these expenses is covered from the state budget.
1) Act No. 221/2006 Coll. on remand detention as amended (221/2006 Coll. - Act on remand detention)
2) Decree of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic No. 437/2006 Coll., which issues the Remand Detention Rules as amended (437/2006 Coll. - Decree of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic, which issues the Remand Detention Rules)
3) Act No. 475/2005 Coll. on the prison sentence execution and on amendments and supplements to certain acts as amended (475/2005 Coll. - Act on the prison sentence execution and on amendments and supplements to certain acts)
4) Decree of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic No. 368/2008 Coll., which issues the Prison Sentence Execution Rules as amended (368/2008 Coll. - Decree of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic, which issues the Prison Sentence Execution Rules)
5) Government Regulation of the Slovak Republic No. 7/2023 Coll. on the amount of work remuneration and the conditions of its provision to sentenced prisoners as amended (7/2023 Coll. - Government Regulation of the Slovak Republic on the amount of work remuneration and the conditions of its provision to sentenced prisoners)
6) Order of the Director General of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard No. 30/2024 on the employment of remand prisoners and sentenced prisoners and on the assignment of remand prisoners and sentenced prisoners to workplaces
7) Order of the Minister of Justice of the Slovak Republic No. 2/2018, which issues a list of functions to which remand prisoners and sentenced prisoners are assigned according to the type of work activity performed in internal operation and in secondary economic centres
8) Order of the Director General of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard No. 36/2009 on assessing work assignment for persons in remand detention and prison sentence execution according to health condition
9) Order of the Director General of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard No. 25/2019 on the procedure for carrying out deductions from work remuneration and other income of a remand prisoner and sentenced prisoner and financial remuneration of a sentenced prisoner as amended
10) Collection of instructions, guidelines, and directives of the Director General of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard No. 2/2012 Provision of natural benefits by clients of work and services to a remand prisoner or sentenced prisoner assigned to work - instruction
col. Ing. Michal Čápka
Director of the Employment, Production and Sales Department
tel.: +421 2 2083 15 80
e-mail: capkam@zvjs.sk