Convicted criminals working in call centre for $25 a week

[ufo_investigations]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/convicted-criminals-are-paid-to-call-schools-and-hospitals...

I don't agree with this at all.

[cherry*135]

The call centre is run as part of Corrective Services Industries, the commercial arm of Corrective Services NSW which gives prisoners work skills. It made a profit of $24 million in the previous financial year.

A prisons spokesman said it had operated for nine years without incident.

$25 a week to the prisoner

All females doing this work, going by that report.

I can't see any thing wrong with that. The prisoners are housed and fed at the Govt's expense. This work provides funds for Corrective Services. Same principles as work for the dole really, including participants learning work skills.

[lakeland27]

they do the same in the UK and the US too. mens prisons used to produce a lot of goods and perform packing piecework  services once as well. in france the ladies produced lace and related goods way back in prisons, and most prisons were designed and run after the french model once.

[cherry*135]

Some prisons have farms where prisoners do the work needed for the running of it, prisoners can do laundry for commercial businesses, all sorts of things that benefit those that need the work doing and the prisoners being gainfully employed and gaining work skills needed when they are released.

Some people will commit one crime, realise they were wrong to do so and will get their life back on track.

The option to study in prison is there too. Someone with a long sentence can complete a Uni degree while in prison.

[the_hawk*]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

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The only meaningful work i'd give them is hard labor smashing rocks, preparing mixtures to fix our roads.

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And what life skills does this provide them with?

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road building, if your roads are anything like ours it should be in high demand career 

[cherry*135]

As an aside.. re  the guy in the photo in that link in the op.

14 Feb

FROM a courtroom dock, Belinda Van Krevel, whispered a message to the man she pleaded guilty to stabbing five times.

“If anyone asks why you’re sticking by me, tell them it’s because I’m sexy”, she said.

That man, Marshall Gould, 39, whose scars from the knife attack in July last year are still visible, said he was standing by his “troubled” girlfriend because he loved her.

Van Krevel, 33, was sentenced to three years jail, for stabbing Mr Gould five times, including twice in the neck, during a fight at their Rockdale home last year

Abridged version

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/tell-them-im-sexy-stabbing-accused-belinda-van-krevel-whis...

[lakeland27]

 they use machinery to build roads and make the base , the days of crushing rocks disapeared with paul newmans films. there is the odd standout redneck in the states who likes chain gangs and does it for his jollies, but they have a few oddballs there.

[cherry*135]

How many females are employed in the  physical work required for road building by commercial companies?

[the_hawk*]

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@am*3 wrote:

How many females are employed in the  physical work required for road building by commercial companies?

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I met one a couple of weeks ago, she is the lollipop holder

and in the mines most of the big dump truck drivers are females

[cherry*135]

I meant activephysical work as in digging trenches, shovelling gravel etc.. holding a stop/go sign not quite in that league.

[lakeland27]

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@am*3 wrote:

I meant activephysical work as in digging trenches, shovelling gravel etc.. holding a stop/go sign not quite in that league.

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 machines dig trenches most of the time, unless they are trying to harden aprentices up. the only gravel is spill from a machine too. the woman with the lollipop sign is generally earning more than the others as well, there's a loading for being exposed to traffic in that manner as it is quite dangerous. i see ladies on the road crew in this region and its no longer uncommon.