VI)  Employment of convicts from Jiřice, Příbram and Nové Sedlo show that they did not employ assistant carers, as opposed to Karviná and Břeclav (the explanation being that the latter two prisons have blocks for permanently unemployable convicts where nurses are required). It is also not certain whether personnel dispensing meals are paid in all prisons. In some of the prisons, this is explicitly defined as a working position; in others the personnel are classified as cooks or do not receive remuneration. The Břeclav prison employed assistant warders (a total of 7 prisoners). This position, in particular, should be re-examined with respect to whether or not it should be remunerated. In other prisons, this activity was not reported as remunerated work. It is also necessary to carefully consider the work content of assistant warders, especially due to the possible misuse of the prominent status which the role carries and which is deeply rooted in the convicts’ “shadow life”. 49 Working positions could be established for various kinds of construction and repair work. It is worth mentioning that various prisons had the working positions of electrician, carpenter, mason, boiler room operator and structural maintenance worker. All these positions can be performed by convicts and should be remunerated. Some prisons distinguish among these working positions while others seem to include them in the general category of “workshops”. There is an obvious lack of uniformity among prisons in defining work without entitlement to remuneration. I recommend that the General Directorate of the Prison Service: •• Prepares a material determining which positions, or activities, should be remunerated and which work should be categorised as work for ensuring the functioning of the prison without entitlement to remuneration; this should be implemented by 30 June 2016. 3) Adjustment of remuneration to inflation Despite the significant increase in prices in the past years, the amount of convicts’ remuneration has not been increased or adjusted to inflation since 1 July 2000. It should also be noted that up until 30 November 2000, the amount of convicts’ remuneration the average depended on the minimum wage tariffs in the majority populamonthly tion. Therefore, it seems logical to link the remuneration with the remuneration minimum wage (formerly minimum salary grades – Government for work is Regulation No. 333/1993 Coll.). The current minimum wage equals CZK 9,900 and is to be further increased while the basic element of CZK 3,725 remuneration in group 1 (lowest) under Government Regulation No. 365/1999 Coll. is CZK 4,500. The verage real amount of a convict’s monthly remuneration is even lower – CZK 3,725 (in 2014). If we analyse the data available in the statistical yearbook of the Prison Service and at the website of the Czech Statistical Office, the amount of convicts’ average monthly remuneration has been gradually decreasing since 2000, in contrast to the growing average 49 MOTEJL, Otakar et al. Vězeňství (Prison system). Prague: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2010, pp. 63, 161. /23/