inmates working in British prisons
By telmesh
@telmesh (1793)
July 5, 2012 1:44am CST
So to rehabilitate inmates in British prisons those that want to can learn a trade such as welding by working in the prison workshops. Apparently they work a 40 hour week for £18 a day and some people are worried about the effect on employment in the market. Some British manufacturing are bringing some of the work back from overseas to be done in the prison workshops.
The main thing here is the emphasis on training to work so that these inmates can find a job outside prison. One working inmate says that after being trained and trying to get a job outside and failing went back to his old ways and was back in prison.
I feel that probably these prison workshops are just areas of cheap labour that serve to offset some of the £47,000 it costs to a prisoner in prison each year.
Interested to know your take on this!!!
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@olliekobra1 (1825)
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8 Jul 12
The government has to make every attempt to retrain these people and prepare them for life outside of prison do I see nothing wrong in this practice
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@olliekobra1 (1825)
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9 Jul 12
not really thats a myth a lot of ex prisoners can go onto to get jobs i know of a ex-prisoner who was in for murder he learned to cook in prison he has been released and works for a top london restaurant. So its important that we try to help these people because not all of them want to re-offend.
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