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Bill: Forced Labor
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Liberation Party
Status[?]: defeated
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 2770
Description[?]:
| Whereas forced labor is cruel and unusual punishment, we shall not make our citizens subject to such atrocities. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Prison policy concerning prisoner labor.
Old value:: Able-bodied prisoners have to work during the day.
Current: Able-bodied prisoners have to work during the day.
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 | 22:22:35, June 10, 2009 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Forced Labor |
| Message | Prisoners take a lot of taxpayer money to maintain in prison. Why should they not be forced to work in order to give back to society some of what they have taken? People who commit crimes give up their right to liberty. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |
| no |
Total Seats: 270 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - Woodrow Wilson |