Rejected petition Prisoner should earn their keep like the rest of us

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The EU claims it is against prisoners' human rights to make them earn their living whilst serving a prison sentence. I believe it is against the public interest to make us support criminals at a cost of billions of pounds a year, to feed, clothe, house and care for them. Prisons should become self-sufficient, it would do the prisoners more good.

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Date submitted 5 August 2011
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