Arlesh@lemmy.world to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 20 hours agoVictorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole planwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down11
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkVictorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole planwww.theguardian.comArlesh@lemmy.world to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-220 hours agoAre they being used as cheap labour, or being trained in skills that they can use when they get out? Hell, training people with drug dealing offenses in forklift operations alone would blow a hole in recidivism
minus-squarethis_jury_is_hung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 hours agoArticle says that they are being given low-skill jobs like mowing and trash collection, in order to free up paid workers to tackle high-skill jobs. They will be paid a whopping $9 a day for effectively unskilled labour that doesn’t increase their post-release prospects kn any substantive way.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agooh that’s bullshit. Bullshit. Even when doing my 600 hours for my Ag/hort in the fuckin’ '90s I was getting fifty a day. They’re doing time, not fucking slaves
Are they being used as cheap labour, or being trained in skills that they can use when they get out?
Hell, training people with drug dealing offenses in forklift operations alone would blow a hole in recidivism
Article says that they are being given low-skill jobs like mowing and trash collection, in order to free up paid workers to tackle high-skill jobs.
They will be paid a whopping $9 a day for effectively unskilled labour that doesn’t increase their post-release prospects kn any substantive way.
oh that’s bullshit. Bullshit. Even when doing my 600 hours for my Ag/hort in the fuckin’ '90s I was getting fifty a day.
They’re doing time, not fucking slaves