Convicted criminals in
the West Midlands are being paid to work in call centres.
The inmates at HMP
Oakwood, near Wolverhampton, and Drake Hall, in Staffordshire, are employed to
carry out market research for insurance companies.
The Centre for Crime Prevention has
branded the scheme “incredibly naive”.
Absolutely right this scheme is
incredibly naive, and given the two million plus people who are currently
unemployed wouldn’t it have made more sense to make these jobs available to
them.
The thinking behind this scheme is
that it gets prisoners out of their cells and working, and that’s all well and
good, but why not make do community service and have them cleaning the streets,
and basically doing all the other mucky jobs that very few people want to do.
Unfortunately this is another
classic case of a scheme with the right ideals and intentions, but sadly it has
been implemented in the wrong way.
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