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Bill: Safety Through Work Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Secularist 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: April 3702
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to ensure that prisoners spend their time occupied in a productive manner. |
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 | 23:25:21, July 25, 2014 CET | From | Communal Democracy | To | Debating the Safety Through Work Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I find it hilarious yet frightening, that a party labelling itself as liberal openly puts a bill before us, that would in practice re-introduce slavery on a national, state-sponsored basis. This party should be barred from entering parliament. George Xenophon, CDE spokesperson |
| Date | 20:59:20, July 26, 2014 CET | From | Liberal Secularist Party | To | Debating the Safety Through Work Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Prisoners who are idle are far more likely to cause problems than those who are engaged in productive work. Without prison labor, the state is forced to hire outside employees to perform basic functions of the prison such as food preparation and laundry. Why is it that Mr. Xenophon would have the state pay more money for prisoners to lie idle? It is unfortunate that his hyperbole has appeared to cause certain parties to vote differently on this issue than they did just a few years ago. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 115 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 308 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 132 |
| Random fact: When forming a cabinet, try to include as few parties as possible, while still obtaining a majority of the seats. |
| Random quote: "By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." - John Maynard Keynes |