NCJ Number
39013
Date Published
1973
Length
110 pages
Annotation
REPORT SURVEYS AND COMMENTS ON PRISON LABOR CONDITIONS, LABELING SOME CHAOTIC AND OUTMODED.
Abstract
IN CONDUCTING THIS SURVEY, THE AUTHOR VISITED EVERY MAJOR PRISON IN AUSTRALIA. HE FOUND THAT CONDITIONS VARIED WIDELY IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRISON WORK PROGRAMS. ROCK-SPLITTING STILL GOES ON IN SOME PRISONS, AND IN OTHERS PRISONERS CAN BE PLACED IN IRONS OR ON A REDUCED DIET FOR BEING IDLE AT WORK. PAY RATES VARY AND GENERALLY FALL BELOW THAT PAID TO PRISONERS IN OTHER ADVANCED COUNTRIES. PRISON LABOR CAN RANGE FROM TENDING LIVESTOCK AND CROPS TO MAT MAKING. THE AUTHOR FOUND INCENTIVES AS WELL AS DISINCENTIVES. IN NEW SOUTH WALES, FOR EXAMPLE, PRISONERS CAN WORK OFF OF THEIR SENTENCES UP TO TWO DAYS EACH MONTH IF THEIR WORK IS EXEMPLARY. THE AUTHOR ALSO PROPOSES A LIBERALIZATION IN PRISON WORK RELEASE PROGRAMS TO COINCIDE WITH THE EUROPEAN VARIETY....BS