N.D. Cent. Code § 65-06.2-08: No liability for damages - Inmates are not employees

The state and its employees and the department of corrections and rehabilitation and its divisions, departments, and employees may not be held liable for damages at common law or by statute if an inmate covered under a program of modified workers' compensation coverage under this chapter sustains a compensable injury while working in a prison industries work program through roughrider industries. An inmate covered under a program of modified workers' compensation coverage under this chapter is not an employee of the state or the department of corrections and rehabilitation and its divisions and departments, except for the purpose of modified workers' compensation coverage under this chapter.