House of CorrectionsBrown blocks prisoners' pay rise
The Prime Minister intervened to overrule the Prison Service Management Board after learning that it had given the go-ahead to increasing the minimum pay rate for an employed offender from £4 a week to £5.50.
Though a tiny sum, it amounts to a 37.5 per cent rise at a time when Mr Brown is demanding restraint across the public sector. It would also cost several million pounds across the Prison Service, and Mr Brown insisted that the money could be better spent elsewhere.
Robbing prisoners to pay thieving MPs!
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Who says crime doesn't pay?
The road to Hull is paved with good intentions...
£10,000 salary to prisoners!
Cherie Blair (Tony Blair’s wife) is leading a push which will ultimately allow prisoners to earn upto £10,000 a year working for household name companies whilst in jail.
In the scheme prisoners will be able to earn the minimum wage of £5.52 / hour whilst working for city law firms and fast food companies such as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Essentially people in jail could earn more in relative terms than those on the outside, prisoners can effectively accumulate cash as the usual expenditures we all incur such as rent, mortgages, food, rates, tv licences etc our covered by everyone else!
Currently prisoners can work a 32 hr week and are paid between £8 - £12 depending on the work involved, such as laundry, prisoners are also restricted on what they can buy with their savings.
What is your opinion, should prisoners be allowed to accumulate nest eggs or should their earning go towards the cost of keeping them incarcerated?
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