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Bill: Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive 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: December 2172
Description[?]:
| We seek to end this state-sponsored slavery within our nation's prisons. Even though these people have committed crimes, the main goal in prison is rehabilitation, not heavy punishment in the form of forced manual labor. |
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 | 18:55:23, January 13, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | The rehabilitation is provided via education within prisons. This is a carrot and stick approach that appears to be working well, given our much lower than the Terran average reoffending rates. |
| Date | 19:56:18, January 13, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | The AAS previously pushed EXACTLY the legislation the CP is trying to push right now. We intend to support. |
| Date | 20:36:12, January 13, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | Oh do we not have education in prisons? |
| Date | 21:06:55, January 13, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | Response to the CP: We did. It got 'voted away'. What we have now is 'punishment'. There is no attempt to rehabilitate prisoners with marketable skills. (It occurs to us that we have issued a previous release with CP instead of PP in our statement. We apologise for any confusion). |
| Date | 23:42:37, January 13, 2006 CET | From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | JLP opposes this awful proposal. |
| Date | 00:03:32, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | Convicted criminals should not be earning a wage whilst in prison, one can only imagine that a) the taxpayer would no doubt be paying most if not all of this wage and b) if convicts have money surely it will be spent on illegal contraband within the prison? |
| Date | 18:38:25, January 16, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | We support. Economic incentives are very efficient, and this provides one more carrot to ensure good behavior while incarcerated. |
| Date | 07:52:28, January 17, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | People are in prison due to contempt for the social niceties generally accepted throughout the communities. We fail to see why people should be not asked to repay a debt for a sin they have committed against society. We cannot support. |
| Date | 14:48:57, January 17, 2006 CET | From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | I thought the point of prison was punishment, not school. |
| Date | 05:25:04, January 18, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Prison Labor |
| Message | So - it all comes down to the OMP vote... 218 for, 246 against... 36 votes to cast... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 218 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 282 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Alduria, Rildanor and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) cultures. |
| Random quote: “Human rights means doing whatever the fuck you want” - Benji Benandez, former Dranian politician |