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1 with workshops in the private sector.
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are getting reasonable wages. A prisoner has to work.
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4 security requirements in these maximum security prisons, the hours
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6 Audit did highlight some of them, there are many more. But yes, it
7 is low and it can never ever match a factory outside a prison,
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I somewhat accept that but it is too low.
Well I don't accept that it is too low in
Well, it could be higher and the Correctional
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Could be higher.
does an awful lot to make it higher.
For example they are now employing an expert on industrial, on industry to boost this productivity. But the trouble is that no sooner do you 22 get a guy really good at the job, having trained him up from absolutely 23 zero, of course when he is released he is outside the prison again, and 24 you are starting with someone else who is at absolute zero. The
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Once we train up a prisoner in a maximum. 28 security prison, we eventually have to move him on to a medium security 29 prison so the skills he has learned in the maximum security prison may will require in the minimum why don't we stabilise the
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security prison. Now you can say, well, situation and leave them where they are.
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costs, on average, about a hundred dollars a day more to keep them in 34 maximum security than in minimum security, so we have to move them.
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