What do prisoners get from the State every year?

Office of Legal Consulting Lao Dong Newspaper replied:

Article 8 of Decree 118/2024/ND-CP (effective from November 15, 2024) details the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Enforcement of Criminal Judgments, regulating the dress and personal belongings of prisoners as follows:

1. Prisoners are granted:

a) 02 sets of long clothes made of regular fabric according to a unified model/year;

b) 02 sets of underwear/year;

c) 02 face towels/year;

d) 02 personal mats/year;

d) 02 pairs of sandals/year;

e) 01 hat (for male prisoners) or 01 cap (for female prisoners)/year;

g) 01 nylon raincoat/year;

h) 04 toothbrushes/year;

i) 600 g toothpaste/year;

k) 3.6 kg of soap/year;

l) 800 ml shampoo/year;

m) 01 screen/03 years;

n) 01 blanket/04 years (from Thua Thien Hue province to the North and 05 Central Highlands provinces provide cotton blankets with covers weighing no more than 02 kg, the remaining provinces provide fiber blankets);

o) 01 warm coat/03 years (issued from Thua Thien Hue province to the North and 05 Central Highlands provinces, not issued to the remaining provinces and centrally run cities);

Female prisoners are provided with necessary personal hygiene items equivalent to 2 kg of rice/person/month.

2. Prisoners participating in labor and vocational training are given 02 sets of protective clothing and other necessary protective equipment each year.

The model, color of clothing and labor protection equipment for prisoners are prescribed by the Minister of Public Security and the Minister of National Defence. Thus, from November 15, 2024, the diet for prisoners is prescribed as above.

Every year, prisoners are provided with the above mentioned items and personal belongings.