Idle prisoners should work
In a fresh report due to be endorsed by MPs it is expected that prison inmates will be forced to work a 40 hour week or take on apprenticeships in order to cure the so called culture of, "idleness".
The report has been completed by a former Number 10 adviser and it proposes a return to "penal labour and toil". Furthermore the sugestion is that inmates could only apply for release, parole or enhanced privileges, if they comply with the requirement.
The report, from the think tank "Onward" is expected to be welcomed by the prisons minister and the Justice Sectretary, David Gauke, as they seek measures to prevent reoffending.
At present it's been suggested that less than a quarter (24 per cent) of prisoners spend 10 or more hours a day out of their cells and 20 per cent spend fewer than two hours a day out of their cell.
Mr Tanner, who authored the report, said, "Prisons were once places of punitive toil labour; they are now centres of idleness."
Only 17 per cent of former prisoners were in employment within a year of their release. Further statistics show that of those employed 20% were less likely to offend as a function of their being employed.
Additionally the report suggested using apprenticeships to train inmates and offering tax breaks to employers in order to encourage offenders into employment.
Prisons minister, Robert Buckand, said, "I completely agree that prison should be used as an opportunity to turn offenders' lives away from crime." and he further commented that the Government's new education and employment strategy now has 500 businesses involved.
The Governments incentive is to cut the estimated £15 billion cost of reoffending.
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