§ 42. Prisoners of war are subject to the confinement or imprisonment deemed necessary on account of safety, but they are subjected to no other intentional suffering or indignity. The confinement, or mode of releasing the prisoner, may be varied during his captivity according to the demands of safety. § 43. Prisoners of war are fed upon plain and wholesome food, according to circumstances, and are treated with all humanity. They may be required to work for the benefit of the captor’s government, according to their rank and condition. They may be temporarily assigned, under proper restrictions, to private citizens willing to take them, and with whom they may earn wages, and thus pay for their expenses. § 44. A prisoner of war, who escapes, may be shot, or otherwise killed in his flight; but neither death nor any other punishment is inflicted upon him simply for his attempt to escape, which the law of war does not consider a crime. Stricter means of security are used after an unsuccessful attempt at escape. If, however, a conspiracy is discovered, the purpose of which is a united or general escape, the conspirators are rigorously punished, even with death, as capital punishment is also inflicted upon prisoners of war discovered to have plotted rebellion against the authorities of the captors, whether in union with fellow-prisoners or other persons. § 45. If prisoners of war, having given no pledge nor made any promise, on their honor, forcibly, or otherwise escape, and are captured again in battle, after having rejoined their own army, they are not punished for their escape, and are treated as simple prisoners of war, although they will be subjected to stricter confinement. § 46. Every captured wounded enemy is medically treated, according to the ability of the medical staff, like a wounded friend. § 47. Honorable men, when captured, will abstain from giving to the enemy information concerning their own army, and the modern law of war permits no longer the use of any violence against prisoners, in order to extort the desired information, or to punish them for having given false information. ARMED ENEMIES NOT BELONGING TO THE HOSTILE ARMY. SCOUTS. ARMED PROWLERS. WAR-REBELS. § 48. Men, or squads of men, who commit hostilities, whether by fighting, or inroads for destruction or plunder, or by raids of any kind, without commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting returns to their homes and avocations, or with the occasional assumption of the semblance of peaceful pursuits, divesting themselves of the character or appearance of soldiers, such men, or squads of men, are not public enemies, and, therefore, if captured, not entitled to the privilege of a prisoner of war, but are treated summarily as highway robbers or pirates.