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By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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A fair day's prison work? By Eric Allison -Wednesday 9 September 2009 The Guardian UK When work - however lousy - is preferable to staying in a cell, prisoners can easily be exploited, writes Eric Allison When a radical prisoner support group and a mainstream charity both use the word slavery to describe contemporary prison labour, the premise is worth close examination. If forced labour is akin to slavery, then both the Campaign Against Prison Slavery (Caps) and the Howard League for Penal Reform are far from wide of the mark. Courts can no longer sentence criminals to forced or hard labour, but the 1952 Prison Act allowed ministers to make prison rules without parliamentary approval. Under those rules, it is an offence to refuse to work, or indeed work hard...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).