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Bill: Ending Slave Labour
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty Party
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: May 2445
Description[?]:
| By forcing prisoners to work for no wage, we distort the free market by using slave lab our to make products, we take away prisoners rights as the only encroached rights should be freedom of movement and right to bear arms, and we take away the choice of prisoners to work for a small wage and show that they've an interest in rehabilitating themselves and getting along with their lives. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 | 16:16:25, August 20, 2007 CET | From | Ancient and Noble Order of the Cavaliers | To | Debating the Ending Slave Labour |
| Message | "They are criminals and have to pay a debt to society. They are not entitled to a wage of any size!" -Charles Waller, Earl Eastwick |
| Date | 08:38:11, August 21, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Ending Slave Labour |
| Message | They are paying off their debts by serving time in prisons. Forcing them into slavery is no way of rehabilitating them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 225 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 150 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 26 |
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