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Bill: Prison Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Gnazenal Phr'unt
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 2257
Description[?]:
| The police and the victims of crime must wonder what the point of sending criminals to prison is, when criminals are allowed to earn an income for their crimes. We propose removing the opportunity to earn an income inside prison, and favour the introduction of hard labour as a more effective system of using convict labour. |
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 | 15:28:52, July 18, 2006 CET | From | Black People's Party | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | Hard labour is living in a capitalist society and your on the bottem of the pyramid. Prison should be for rehabilitation only. |
| Date | 15:57:14, July 18, 2006 CET | From | Gnazenal Phr'unt | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | Erm, but earning money is what, socialist? Earning an income cannot possibly aid rehabilitation when in jail, if anything it seems to reward criminals who may not have been able to get a job outside of prison. |
| Date | 19:11:15, July 18, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | I don't know exactly who this will help. |
| Date | 23:06:23, July 18, 2006 CET | From | Almighty Lodamunian Front (ALF) | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | yes |
| Date | 10:35:30, July 19, 2006 CET | From | Gnazenal Phr'unt | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | DSPL, it helps the criminal system, as prison becomes a less attractive option for criminals. |
| Date | 21:10:18, July 19, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | No, I still prefer rehabilatation over manual labor. |
| Date | 22:04:20, July 19, 2006 CET | From | Gnazenal Phr'unt | To | Debating the Prison Reform Bill |
| Message | Earning an income does not create circumstances that encourage rehabilitation. It encourages circumstances in which some criminals earn more inside prison han they would outside of prison. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 353 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 301 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 47 |
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