Prisoners pay 'will go to victims'
05 October 2010
Campaigners have expressed their support for Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans to make prisoners work 40-hour weeks運動人仕已表達他們丐對律政司司長肯克拉克的計劃的支持，令囚犯工作40小時一週
Prisoners will no longer live a life of "enforced, bored idleness" and instead be forced to work to pay compensation to their victims, Ken Clarke has said.
囚犯將不再居住在“被迫、苦悶無所事事”的生活，而代之是被迫工作去支付賠償給受害者，肯克拉克說。
The Justice Secretary said he wanted prisons to become "tough places of hard work and reform" and ensure more private firms are brought in to rehabilitate offenders on a payment by results system.
司法部長說，他想要監獄變成為“辛勤工作和改革的艱苦地方”，和確保更多的私人公司被帶入在結果為本的制度上支付，去改造罪犯。
Too many prisoners existed in a system where getting out of bed was "voluntary" and instead they should work nine to five jobs to gain a trade or skill, he told activists at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
Mr Clarke wants private firms to create the jobs for criminals and is even looking at the possibility of creating purpose-built workplace prisons where higher wages could generate even more cash.
Around one pound in five would be put in a fund for victims, with the rest used to cover the cost of keeping people behind bars, pay the benefits of prisoners' families or kept in trust for when they are released.
The Ministry of Justice is looking for around £2 billion of savings from its budget as part of the drastic Whitehall-wide spending review ordered by Chancellor George Osborne to tackle the UK's deficit.
Criminal justice campaigners welcomed Mr Clarke's plans, but they claim the jobs need to be meaningful and linked to the working world outside prison in a bid to help rehabilitate offenders before their release.
Graham Beech, strategic director for Nacro, the crime reduction charity, said: "Employment is one of the most effective ways of reducing reoffending, and equipping prisoners with the skills to get jobs on release will benefit the whole community.
"It is essential that employment options are meaningful and linked to labour market opportunities that will provide prisoners with the chance to have a productive future which benefits them, their families and their victims.
"But this must also involve engaging employers to provide opportunities and support them in the recruitment and retention ex-offenders."
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