Prisoner functionaries were spared physical abuse and hard labor, provided they performed their duties to the satisfaction of the SS guards. They also had access to certain privileges such as civilian clothes and a private room, even (being convicts) the possibility of reduced sentence or parole.[citation needed] While the official government term for prisoner functionaries was Funktionshäftling, the Germans commonly called them kapos. When the camps were liberated, they were transferred to the regular prison system.[citation needed]