Businesses 'should help prisoners get work' Major employers should give prisoners work experience placements and training and help more ex-offenders get work, Ken Clarke has said. The justice secretary said firms like Virgin and Marks & Spencer could hire ex-offenders without damaging their reputation and values. At a reception for companies in Downing Street later this month, he will argue that prisoners can be highly motivated. Ministers are launching a new scheme to improve prisoners' job prospects. "Introducing work experience and training to people who are serving their time and being punished in prison is altogether a more intelligent way of running the prison service," Mr Clarke said. This country gets dafter by the day.
No doubt, those champions of the left, Steroghaypist and Toby will endorse the crazy communist views of red Ken, then wish death on you Syd. About sums these two veggie munching ***gots up.
I don't know When half the prison population are doing time for swearing on Twitter it would make sense to keep their dangerous thumbs out of trouble
Huth could get a job as a primary school assistant If Fred West was still alive he could be a brickie Ronnie Biggs for postman. anybody else with bright ideas or has the world gone completely mad.
The US has a large prison industry that does a hell of a lot of enforced work. I'm guessing that this idea's based upon that.
It does help, though. Something like 10% of the black, male population in America between the age of 25 and 29 are in prison.
