The U.K government wants to completely rebrand community service.

A MASSIVE unpaid army of ­workers is to be created from thousands of convicted criminals in a bid to ­kick-start the economy, the Sunday Express can reveal.

Multimillion-pound industrial projects will be undertaken by a land army of 100,000 criminals as an ­alternative to custodial sentences.

Offenders will be expected to work unpaid for up to seven hours a day in a major plan for them to “pay something back” to society.

They will do labouring work on building projects, carry out ­industrial cleaning and clear towns and cities of the blight of graffiti.

A huge expansion of the community service or unpaid work scheme will see it double in size as part of the Government’s flagship “rehabi­litation revolution”.

Instead of the “soft touch” option of doing several hours community labour a week offenders will work full-time completing up to 240-hour sentences more quickly.

Road-sweeping and window cleaning will be replaced by harder manual work, saving the public purse millions as part of Government cost cutting.

The ambitious plan is part of the privatisation of community sentencing or unpaid work revealed by the Sunday Express last week.

Three companies, Serco, Kalyx and Compac, have already been ­approved by the Ministry of Justice to tender for the privatised community service contracts which could start as soon as next year.

A Whitehall source revealed: “Putting it simply it is payback time. This policy will send out a very tough message that there is no easy ride and that it is everybody’s ­responsibility to rebuild the economy and the country.

“One hundred thousand is a big workforce, almost doubling the 55,000 now sentenced to community service or unpaid work.”

Putting criminals to work on ­social housing and even bridge construction has also been considered.

It is understood that the successful contract bidders will negotiate placements with the private sector.

The Government wants to completely rebrand community service by toughening up its image and ­cutting costs by up to £40million.

The probation service, which has run community sentencing since 1974, says the proposals could break health and safety legislation and threaten the future of paid ­workers.

Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, said: “This is all about punishment and not rehabilitation but clearly it is ­essential that there is an element of rehabilitation, otherwise individuals are likely to carry on offending.”

Last week we revealed how ­battle-hardened war veterans will be put in charge of criminals ­serving community sentences.

Using Afghanistan and Gulf War veterans would also tackle the threat of violence against probation service officers who currently do the job.

Express.co.uk
By: David Jarvis, September 26 2010

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Comment by Anti Oligarch on November 7, 2010 at 8:02am
Great info thank you.
And yes, we're going back down to where they want us to be.
This time our punishment will be more severe and if we believe them, absolute, thanks to the technology we helped create and paid for.

Eric Blair aka as George Orwell wrote about famine in England around 1850 in his book "The road to Wigan Pier".

Read about Agenda 21 and watch Michael Shaw's analysis.

Good luck everybody.
Comment by Pamela Ida Prince on November 6, 2010 at 11:49pm
Are we getting back to the Convict Days of the 19th Century.
It had it's good points according to Dickens writings. I Quote:''From the endnote, we learn that the incident with the soup refers to convicts rioting at Chatham Convict Prison after a reduction in their diet in February 1861 (Penguin edition of Great Expectations, 507). In contrast, the article in The Cornhill describes praises the food prisoners received: “The materials are excellent. The scale of diet was based upon eighty actual experiments, conducted with reference to the influence on the health, mood, and improvement of the prisoner" (714). In deed, the author claims: “There are few families in London which command better materials" (718) and “The cooking is excellent; better, far better, than in most ordinary inns" (719). Based on this article, it seems that convicts were not just well fed, but fed as well or even better than some non criminal Londoners.'' http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/convicts.html
Still it was and is 'slave labor.' My children would refer to a visit to their maternal grandparents as work on the 'prison farm,' as no one was allowed to remain idle
& we visited quiet regularly in School Holidays. As those working do not like to see others idle & reap the rewards of crime while they have to pay for it in extra tax..

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