# Labor and Employment (GLE)

## Title 9. Workers' Compensation

### Subtitle 2. Covered Employees and Employers

#### Section 9-221

(a) A prisoner is a covered employee while the prisoner is:

  (1) working for a board of county commissioners, a county council, or a county roads board if:

    (i) the county pays the prisoner a wage or stipulated sum; and

    (ii) the prisoner sustains permanent partial or permanent total disability or dies, as a result of an accidental personal injury; or

  (2) engaged in work while under the supervision of Maryland Correctional Enterprises in the Federal Prison Industry Enhancement Program as provided in Sec. 10-308(d) of the Correctional Services Article.

(b) In Allegany, Anne Arundel, Charles, Montgomery, Washington, and Wicomico counties, payment of a stipend or other money into an account that a correctional institution administers for a prisoner does not constitute payment of a wage or stipulated sum under subsection (a)(1)(i) of this section.

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Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)