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| Work release scheme proposed for France |
| By libcom.org |
| Published: 12/12/2008 |
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FRANCE - Under the terms of the "Les Clés de l’avenir" agreement signed earlier this year prisoners can have their sentences reduced if they pass a selection process andare found work with one of the partnership firms. The following four areas will be open to prisoners: catering, cleaning, building and logistics. Prisoners will have to wear electronic tags and they will be monitored for at least six months to ensure that they have 'successfully adapted' on release. Although Medef is claiming that their motives come from a sense of civic duty it isn't hard to see how workers who risk prison if they lose their jobs will be almost certain to face a higher degree of exploitation. The French prison service is creaking at the seams, with an official capacity of 51000 inmates and a current total of 63750. For geographical reasons some prisons are operating at double their intended capacity; Gradignan, Montluçon, Poitiers were all named in a recent report by a coalition of left-wing groups that mounted an investigation into the prison system. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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