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Bill: If You Do the CRIME, You Do the WORK Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei
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 2470
Description[?]:
This bill simply states that if criminals show a lack of disrespect for the very laws that this legislature is passing thus undermining our OWN credibility, they thereby OWE a DEBT to society for a given number of years and this means to work from sun-up to sun-down on a chain-gang. However, the CWFP stands firmly on Likatonia's proud tradition of having a vigorous rehabilitation and education program for prisonors as well as opposition to the death penalty. Thank you for your full support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Prison policy concerning prisoner labor.
Old value:: Prisoners can do certain jobs in prison, voluntarily, for a small wage.
Current: Prisoners can do certain jobs in prison, voluntarily, for a small wage.
Proposed: Able-bodied prisoners have to work during the day.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:48:21, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the If You Do the CRIME, You Do the WORK Act |
| Message | P.S.: If this bill becomes law, it only forces the STRONG & HEALTHY prisoners to do manual labor and not those that are weak, cripple, and old. |
| Date | 20:04:05, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the If You Do the CRIME, You Do the WORK Act |
| Message | Absolutely not. What about those wrongly convicted? Doesn't that constitute as slavery? |
| Date | 21:04:44, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the If You Do the CRIME, You Do the WORK Act |
| Message | Why would people be wrongly convicted? Are we saying that the Likatonian judicial system is not trustworthy? If we have doubts THAT strong about the machineries of justice, how can we impose ANY sentence? |
| Date | 22:47:04, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the If You Do the CRIME, You Do the WORK Act |
| Message | We see no reason why "weak, cripple, and old" can't do work, it just might be of a different nature, such as administrative or human services work. This legislation will be supported by the LFF. Suprise, suprise. |
| Date | 02:13:06, October 13, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the If You Do the CRIME, You Do the WORK Act |
| Message | DWP, in Likatonia, we have strong vigorous Criminal JUSTICE system where the system is heavily bias to the defendent in the trial and if he cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to him at the State's expense. He is INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty by an impartial and unanimous jury of 12 citizens. However, we do acknowledge that there are mistakes and a person can be WRONGLY convicted. If a prisoner can prove in a court of law under appeal that there was insufficient evident that warranted his conviction, he can sue the State for Punitve damages of emotional pain and suffering which could be over 1,000,000 LIK. Either way, justice will be served!!! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 261 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 226 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 179 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "The whole uncivilized bunch on the opposite benches can get stuffed." - Craig Warwick, former Dranian politician |