Kriminelle könnten Schlaglöcher und saubere Behälter im Rahmen der Regierungspläne füllen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj7d1dwz1vo
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Kriminelle könnten Schlaglöcher und saubere Behälter im Rahmen der Regierungspläne füllen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj7d1dwz1vo
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„Private companies would also be able to employ those who are on community sentences.“
Immigration is bad because it drives down wages yet this is ok?
Why even hire people on minimum wage if the government will give them to you for free. Couple this with benefit cuts driving more people into crime, who are then forced to work for free.
Labour really leaning into those far right policies.
Get rid of council tax and central resource allocation and bring in local income tax like Japan. Then councils have loads of money and don’t have to beg the central government to stop slashing their funding. Reduce income tax by 10% and create a 10% local tax, so as far as taxpayers are concerned nothing changes.
This is one of the reasons local services are so good and well funded in Japan. The street I walked along to work in central Tokyo was spotless because they had council workers picking up every morsel of litter every morning.
They even have a system where you can choose to pay your local tax to any council in the country instead of the one you live in, such as the small countryside town you’re originally from. That helps spread money from rich big city councils with lots of high taxpayers to more rural ones. And in return for doing that that council will send you some of their local produce, for example you can choose a council in a region famous for mangoes or beer or beef and get monthly deliveries of those things to your house.
As usual, it’s talking about **unpaid work**.
There’s absolutely no excuse to not pay them a minimum wage to do it. A big contributor to reoffending is that criminals struggle to land and keep a job, not being able to afford to live. Couple that with the fact that these jobs are normally paid so they’ll be hiring less people and pocketing the change.
It’s all grandstanding, they want the optics from looking ‚hard on crime‘ to try and net votes, even if in reality it’s not going to help the situation at all.
And people didn’t believe me when I said we will eventually adopt the US prisoner slaves model!
If private companies etc want to use them then they should have to give said prisoners employment after completing their sentence to be able to use prison labour. If they are good enough to use in prison they should be good enough to use out of prison so it’s not just companies exploiting prison labour while giving nothing back to save a few quid. No reason it shouldn’t be a requirement.
Though the prisoners should be getting paid to do the work really.
Labour needs to soon think about the challenge from their left wing flank, such as from the Reform party 😏
Great, now if the is a hole in your street, or pile of rubbish outside your door, you’d be weary to report it in the fear a rapist will outside your house. That sure sounds smart. No thanks.
This is just an extension of the existing Community Order sentencing scheme:
[https://www.gov.uk/community-sentences](https://www.gov.uk/community-sentences)
nothing fundamentlly new.
Successive governments for many years have played around with „ideas“ like this and in most case, nothing much seems to happen.
In the case of potholes, proper repair which is going to last needs equipment, materials and training. Just filling potholes with scalpings, as seems to be illustrated above, and thumping it down is going to last a few weeks at best or until the first HGV rumbles across it.
I have no problem with them being forced to payback to society. Work provided to the good behaviour prisoners, take time off your sentence and get earlier release. Pays to work.
We should fill the pot holes with criminals. Wow. Just wow!
Don’t know about anyone else but I’d rather not have a bunch of unqualified people repairing the roads I drive on.
If we’re going to make prisoners work then we need it to fulfil an industry/area where it won’t have a negative impact on the economy. Textile work would be a great area to employ prisoners as this is often done by immigrants with no right to work and would undercut illegal work.
Put their asses to work.
Unpaid, they have it better than many others that are not criminals. I’m sick of paying for them to get high and stab guards.