SourceBBC wrote:
Prisoners in England and Wales should work a 40-hour week, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke is expected to say.
Ministers are also considering building a large-scale "working prison" on the site of a factory, possibly a recycling plant.
Mr Clarke's aim is for inmates in publicly-run prisons to work a 40-hour week, for which they would be paid the minimum wage, with part of their earnings going to victims.
In his speech Mr Clarke will say jail is a place of "sluggishness and boredom" for many prisoners, where getting up in the morning is "optional".
He wants offenders to prepare for life on the outside by establishing the habit of "routine hard work".
Justice minister Nick Herbert told the BBC that often prisoners were left locked in their cells for too long with little to do and needed "purposeful activity and work" to help address mental health and drugs issues and prepare them for work: "Too often, I'm, afraid, we are just warehousing prisoners, often making them worse not better."
He said there could be industries in prisons - where there is space - but said the "lion's share" of prisoners' wages would go to victims' organisations.
Jolly good idea.
1)Rehabiliation - After internment this should make it slightly easier for prisoners to re-integrate into society
2)Money - Part of the proceeds would go to victims charitys/trusts, and i'd imagine some money would be skimmed off and reinvested into the prison service
3)Prison shouldn't be easy - Time working = less time lying in a cell and more time doing productive shit
Bear in mind this is about the UK, so people outside of the UK might want to read up on our current prison system here and here.
Thoughts/opinions?
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