MOSCOW, Ocotber 9 (RAPSI) - Russian Federal Penitentiary Service is taking into consideration an issue over inmates' pay which has been raised recently by jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in her protest claim.

"Working standards regulating the inmates' pay has been one of the pressing matters on the Service's agenda for the last year," the statement of the Service which was released Wednesday reads. These standards were adopted more than 20 years ago and are now under review . They will be updated after the review is over, according to the statement.

The 23-year-old Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike on September 23 in protest at the conditions of her custody and alleged threats from prison administration officials. She also complained over inmates' low wages.

The Pussy Riot member ended the strike on October, 1. She reportedly gave up her nine-day-long because of unspecified health problems.

In August 2012, Tolokonnikova and two other Pussy Riot members - Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina - were sentenced to two years in a prison settlement for hooliganism. Samutsevich was released in October 2012 after her verdict was changed to a suspended sentence.

Alyokhina was transferred last August to serve her prison term to Nizhny Novgorod region while Tolokonnikova remains in Mordovia.