PRISONERS AND WORK
QUESTION OF PAYMENT Should prisoners be paid for the work they do in prison workshops? Some system of payment to those who reach a minimum output of adequate quality is recommended in the report of tho British Departmental Committee on the Employment of Prisoners. The committee urge the appointment of industrial managers at the larger prisons, and an improvement in tho machinery for seeking manufacturing orders from Government departments, local authorities, and other sources. Training in industry, rather than production on an economic scale, should, it is urged, be tho primary consideration of employment in tho case of Borstal inmates, and prisoners under 130 years of age with comparatively long sentences..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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114PRISONERS AND WORK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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