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Bill: The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill.
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Federalist 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: June 3643
Description[?]:
| As it stands, currant legislation makes it far too easy for prisoners. Work is voluntary for them and can spend their time enjoying comforts that the rest of us have to work ages for. Is this fair? Prison should be a punishment. Work should be a compulsory task for all able-bodied prisoners. Doing this work they can pay back their debts to society. Their free labour undercuts the political power of the greedy strikers; a move that can only be seen as a good thing for business. This work will also provide rehabilitation. When prisoners have served their sentence they need to be able to reintegrate. By undertaking work prisoners can learn new skills. They can learn how individualism and collectivism can be brought together. This is why we believe there should be no ending of education programmes, in order to help rehabilitation. |
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 | 02:35:07, March 28, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | We are liking the pre-amble to this bill fellow Coalition partners. We look forward to seeing your proposals as we're sure they'll live up to true Beluzian common sense. |
| Date | 02:50:40, March 28, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | We have to wonder how reactionaries like you lot summon the brain power to remain breathing... Slavery is abhorant. We thought that all civilised and educated people had reached consensus on that. |
| Date | 06:20:55, March 28, 2014 CET | From | Feministas Verdes | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | We are in agreement with the Beluzian Syndicalist party on this matter. It is highly concerning that our head of state is implicitly in support of a bill that would strip so many of its citizens of such basic human rights. |
| Date | 09:21:11, March 28, 2014 CET | From | National Federalist Party | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | If you have committed a crime there needs to be punishment. The term is repay your debt to society which we believe this does. However we will make sure that this is implemented fairly. Work will not be pointless and needlessly backbreaking. It will be useful work and will make prisoners feel useful. There will also be conditions that are like any other working environment. We hope this clears up some concerns. |
| Date | 09:40:49, March 28, 2014 CET | From | Beluzian Syndicalist Party | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | Is the deprivation of liberty not punishment enough? This push to degrade and dehumanise rings of spite. Further you perpetuate the notion of work being virtuous for its own sake, while boasting that your underlying intention is to devalue free labour. The last time we checked Beluzia was not some planter colony. Indentured servitude has no place here. |
| Date | 12:38:10, March 28, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | Work is good for the soul and will allow criminals to reflect on their wrong doing and give them a sense of purpose. We never expected the old stuffy order to understand. |
| Date | 17:01:31, March 28, 2014 CET | From | New Beluzian Movement | To | Debating the The Punishment and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Bill. |
| Message | Our movement is torn on this but... ultimately we have decided to vote no. While forced labour might be useful for increasing our economic growth, the complete subsuming to the inbuilt authority necessary to create this means we will merely be training automatons with no zeal about them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 302 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 448 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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