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Prisons to Instil Work Ethic in Inmates (6 January 2012)

Date: 06/01/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Prisons to Instil Work Ethic in Inmates

Prisoners will be expected to carry out full-time work behind bars to prevent them from experiencing “enforced idleness”, the Justice Secretary has revealed. Prisoners will work a maximum of 40 hours per week and will perform a range of tasks, from welding to printing. Around 10,000 prisoners currently work 40 hours a week. However, the number is set to increase to 20,000, meaning that one in four prisoners in England and Wales will be engaging in full-time work. The proposals follow statistics from one “working prison” which revealed that six in ten prisoners who had worked behind bars went on to enter into employment or engage in further education or training following their release from prison.

Ken Clarke has told of how prisons were failing to deliver as they should and claimed that the public were likely to be alarmed to learn that the majority of inmates often spent their days watching television in their cells. He added that the public desired a penal system that adequately punishes offenders and serves to protect law-abiding citizens. Mr. Clarke stated that prisons would effectively introduce prisoners to a full week of purposeful activity to prevent them from being a wasted resource.

At HMP Featherstone, Wolverhampton, every inmate is engaged in full-time work and receives an income of a maximum of £17 a week. Almost all (90 per cent) of the work carried out by inmates is for the prison estate itself. However, the prison has been working to secure more outside contracts.

Duncan Lewis’ prison law solicitors can provide guidance to prisoners made to work in prison.

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