Justice chief wants to replace 'enforced idleness' with full-time work
(NEWSER) - Britain's justice secretary is looking for jobs—and a massive pay raise—for the country's 85,000 prison inmates. Ken Clarke wants companies to outsource work to the nation's prisons, and to pay inmates the national minimum wage of $9.39 an hour instead of the current maximum prison wage of $15 per week, the Wall Street Journal reports. The wages would be used to compensate victims of crime, and pay for prison costs, with some going to the inmates' families. Prisoners would be allowed to keep around $30 per week. More»
