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Bill: Prisoner Rehabilitation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Party of Ikradon
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2037
Description[?]:
| The purpose of the prison system should be to rehabilitate the prisoners, rather than to punish them. Therefore, all prisoners should recieve education and none should be forced to work. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education in prisons.
Old value:: Prisoners are not given any form of education.
Current: An education plan for prisoners is provided to improve rehabilitation.
Proposed: An education plan for prisoners is provided to improve rehabilitation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Prison policy concerning prisoner labor.
Old value:: Able-bodied prisoners have to work during the day.
Current: Prisoners can do certain jobs in prison, voluntarily, for a small wage.
Proposed: Prisoners can do certain jobs in prison, voluntarily, for a small wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From |  Progressive Evolution Party | To | Debating the Prisoner Rehabilitation Act |
| Message | The state is already spending so much money to keep prisoners imprisoned that it proves much more useful if we receive some return on the investment as we do by not paying them and mandating manual labor. Since the labor need not be exhaustive, it also needn't be too harsh a punishment, but enough to serve as a small repayment to society for damages done. Prisoners are therefore owed nothing in return and this bill is ludicrous. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Prisoner Rehabilitation Act |
| Message | We disagree with in the questinable, and to a degree inhuman, views of the PEP and vote FOR the bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 59 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 41 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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