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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Is it really that economic though? Consider the costs of transporting the labourers to the site, supervising and guarding, even the beaurocrat who decides where they are going to go, plus the inevitable health and safety admin risk assesment team (if someone got hurt there'd be hell to pay).
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Good point. True, it isn't totally free considering all the wages, but I think that even if the work was subbed out to a professional cleaning company, although it would be cheaper, there would be a less overall worth to it. As you said, prisoners should be punished and not given cushy ride.
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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
BTW, where in the article in the original link does it say the offenders will be chained up while doing their hard labour  |
Noone said they would, but in America, they almost always are. If prisoners here took up forced labour, then logically they would need to be chained up, although i'm sure human rights groups would be against it.
The article though doesn't talk about escape-risk prisioners though, but non-custodial sentences. The kids aren't supposed to be locked up, and so can't techniocally escape.