The Payment of Prisoners

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 20 in Selected Essays on Economic Policy, 2001, pp 279-283 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At the present time, prisoners in all gaols in Australia are paid at very low rates (well under 4/- a day). These rates of pay make it virtually impossible for any but long-sentence-men to accumulate a sizable fund to take with them on release. As released men are not eligible for unemployment benefits until a fortnight after their release (they can register after a week but do not receive a week’s pay until a fortnight is up) unless they have a job to go to, or get a job almost immediately, and unless they are paid in advance, they may be forced into crime again. Good resolutions made in prison, and attempts at rehabilitation by prison and welfare officers, will then be thwarted by their material needs in that vital first fortnight.

Keywords: Prison Population; Material Hardship; Sizable Fund; Woman Prisoner; Prison Authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230510562_20

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