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Introduction: The Luxembourgish Prison Administration is currently gathering information on various subjects such as workshops and education in prisons with regards to the future restructuring of Schrassig Prison (closed prison facility with an overall capacity of 597). That is why we would kindly ask you to provide answers to the following questions and help us look into new working opportunities and workshops' possibilities.
Detainees work 37 hours per week, which corresponds to a normal work week in the rest of the Danish society. Included in these 37 work hours are coffee and lunch breaks, respectively two times 10 minutes and 29 minutes per day.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Detainees bring their own lunch box and eat at the workshop. Most workshops have rooms where staff and detainees can make stay during their breaks. These rooms are often equipped with simple cooking facilities.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Detainees are paid once a week. By default, detainees receive the same wage. They then have the possibility of obtaining wage supplements for stability (awarded after 4 weeks of work) and competence, respectively. If a detainees has a vocational education, which is considered relevant for the assignments in the work shop, the detainee can be granted wage supplements immediately. Detainees can also obtain a competence supplement on the basis of competencies acquired from working in the workshop.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Although both are valued, education ranks above work in the Danish prison system. Both work, education, and other kinds of scheduled activities take place during the daytime. All kinds of scheduled activities (work, education, substance abuse treatment, etc.) are paid activities.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?Danish Prison and Probation Service cooperates with approximately 180 private companies nationwide. The link between the labor market and life as incarcerated connects the detainee to the surrounding world and adds meaning to the tasks that are carried out in the workshops. All workshops are arranged so that they appear as similar as possible to corresponding workshops outside the prison system.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?Danish Prison and Probation Service does not have central bakeries. However, minor sections in our central kitchens are equipped with baking facilities. Here, the bakeries are running with detainees and educated work instructors.
The length of the working day, the length of the working week, the minimum inter-day and inter-weekly rest are determined in accordance with the norms of the labor legislation. With the consent of the detainees, they can work a 6-day working week.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?The detainees are fed in specially adapted premises / dining room for the detainees / or in their dormitories.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?The employees of the communal activities of the places of imprisonment receive remuneration in the amount of 40% of the minimum wage for the country, and these with a qualification requirement - 45% of the minimum wage for the country.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Prisoners decide on their own, wanting to change their jobs for the duration of their sentences or to attend school at prisons. Participation in both work and study is offered in determining the degree of re-education and correction in the conditions of prisons. The desire for change and self-improvement in prison, regardless of the activity, in case of voluntary participation is positively assessed. Prisoners attending classes can also work a 4 - hour working day. The education for the inmates offered in prisons is completely free for them, receiving all the necessary textbooks free of charge, for use during the school year. For their participation in educational activities, the sentences of prisoners are reduced in accordance with law.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?There is a prison in Bulgaria, which has a workshop for the production of furniture. Orders are accepted by individuals and legal entities. In another prison there is a workshop for the production of wicker furniture, as well as a carpenter's workshop in which coffins and others are produced.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?- In Bulgaria there are no prisons with their own bakery.
Inmates work for remuneration in the factories established by the companies in the prison territory for up to 8 hours per day.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Inmates do not eat lunch in the workshop area.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Wages are paid once a month. The company calculates them taking into account the time worked in accordance with the hourly tariff rate. The state has statutory minimum hourly rate and a minimum monthly wage for a person sentenced with deprivation of liberty: 50 percent of the national minimum hourly rate and a minimum monthly wage of the normal working hours in the country - for an inmate serving a sentence in a closed or partially-closed prison. For inmates serving a sentence in an open prison, the rate is equivalent to the national minimum hourly rate.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Studies in the school are free of charge. The amount of paid work is less than the number of inmates who would like to work. Studies and work may be combined if the inmate is able to combine them. Inmates mostly work or study.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?There are examples of good practice when inmates worked for a company in the prison and, upon release, continued to work for the company in a factory set up outside.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?There are no bakeries in Latvian imprisonment places.
It depends on many different items (amount of work, prison services and facilities,...). However, no inmates works more than 160 hours per month.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Ordinary, inmates eat in different facilities from those used for work. Nevertheless, sometimes work facilites have been used and the experience has been positive.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?They are paid monthly. The salary depends on the hours they have worked, the difficulty of the job and, sometimes, the productivity. Nevertheless, a general basis is stablish for all inmates.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?School has priority and it is not paid.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?It depends on the economic situation of the zone where the prison is located.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?All the bread is done by inmates. The time shedule depends on the prison and the inmate's eating hours.
Conditions of work 83.—(1) No prisoner is required to work, or take part in an educational class arranged in terms of rule 84 in lieu of work, for more than 40 hours a week (excluding meal breaks). (2) Every prisoner is entitled to a minimum of one day each week as a rest day on which he or she will not be required to work or take part in an educational class in lieu of work.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Prisoners eat in their cells.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Earnings 86. A prisoner is entitled to be paid earnings at such rates and in accordance with such conditions as may be specified in a direction by the Scottish Ministers, where the prisoner undertakes— (a)work in terms of rules 82 or 85; or (b)an educational class or counselling arranged in terms of rule 84
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Arrangements for work, education and counselling 81.—(1) The Governor must obtain reports about a prisoner’s particular needs and wishes concerning work and education as soon as practicable after that prisoner is received into prison. (2) The Governor must, following receipt of the reports referred to in paragraph (1), and in consultation with the prisoner, determine a programme of work, educational activities and counselling for the prisoner with the objectives of improving— (a)the prospects for the prisoner’s successful resettlement in the community; and (b)the prisoner’s morale, attitude and self respect. Prisoners’ work 82.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Part, every prisoner is required to work in prison. (2) No prisoner may be required to work, or to do work which is of a particular class, at any time when they are— (a)excused from working, or from doing any particular class of work by the Governor, acting on the advice of a healthcare professional, on health grounds; (b)excused from working, or from doing any particular class of work by the Governor on any other ground; (c)undertaking an educational class arranged in terms of rule 84; or (d)undertaking counselling provided in terms of rule 84. (3) A prisoner may only work in the service of another prisoner or of an officer where the Governor has given his or her express authority for such work to be done Conditions of work 83.—(1) No prisoner is required to work, or take part in an educational class arranged in terms of rule 84 in lieu of work, for more than 40 hours a week (excluding meal breaks). (2) Every prisoner is entitled to a minimum of one day each week as a rest day on which he or she will not be required to work or take part in an educational class in lieu of work. (3) A prisoner who has declared himself or herself to belong to a particular religion or religious denomination is entitled, as far as reasonably practicable— (a)to take the weekly rest day specified in paragraph (2) on any recognised weekly day of religious observance; and (b)to be excused from work or from undertaking an educational class or counselling, arranged in terms of rule 84, on such other days in a year as are recognised days of religious observance and are specified in a direction made by the Scottish Ministers. (4) A prisoner is entitled to work in association with other prisoners except where— (a)an order has been made under rule 95 removing him or her from association with other prisoners either generally or during any period the prisoner is undertaking work; (b)the prisoner is subject to cellular confinement imposed under rule 114(1)(d). Purposeful activities 84.—(1) The Governor must provide a range of purposeful activities for prisoners which, so far as reasonably practicable, takes into account— (a)the interests and need of prisoners to obtain skills and experience which will be of use to them after their release; and (b)the requirements of the operation and maintenance of the prison. (2) “Purposeful activities” include— (a)work; (b)education of any kind, including physical education; (c)counselling and other rehabilitative programmes; (d)vocational training; and (e)work placements outside the prison. (3) The Scottish Ministers may, in relation to work placements outside the prison provided under paragraph (2)(e), specify in a direction— (a)the groups or categories of prisoners who may be allowed to undertake such placements; (b)the circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, such placements may be provided to prisoners; and (c)the conditions which will apply to any prisoner or group or category of prisoners undertaking such placements. (4) In carrying out the duty under paragraph (1) the Governor— (a)must arrange, so far as reasonably practicable, a programme of educational classes to provide prisoners with an opportunity to pursue their interests and needs; and (b)may arrange the provision of counselling (including group work activity) which is appropriate to the needs of prisoners. Work undertaken by untried and civil prisoners 85.—(1) An untried prisoner or a civil prisoner is not required to work in prison but may, if the prisoner so chooses and with the agreement of the Governor, undertake work or an educational class arranged in terms of rule 84. (2) An untried prisoner or a civil prisoner who undertakes work, will be entitled to be paid earnings in accordance with rule 86. (3) An untried prisoner or a civil prisoner may only work in the service of another prisoner or of an officer where— (a)the prisoner consents to do such work; and (b)the Governor has given his or her express authority for such work to be do
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?SPS work sheds have good connections with the commercial sector and there is high demand for items such as garden furniture.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?The Employability Partnership initiative with Freedom Bakery CIC commenced in June 2015 to teach those in SPS custody the skills and methods required in Artisan Bakery. This innovative project utilised the training kitchen in HMP Low Moss to produce artisan bread and cakes for sale to Freedom’s customer base. March 2016 saw Phase 2 of the venture with Freedom Bakery CIC taking over the operation of the retail café area in the prison visits centre of HMP Low Moss. This saw further opportunities for those in custodial care to learn skills in customer service and retail aspects. More recently, Freedom Bakery CIC have progressed to a third phase of the partnership by opening a further facility in the community employing those with conviction. This was opened with a view to meeting increased demand and enable a wider catchment of people traditionally excluded from employment to benefit from the opportunity. Since opening the facility in Glasgow individuals from HMP Barlinnie, HMP Greenock and HMP Low Moss have had the opportunity to train and work there.
Detainees work 5 to 6 hours daily, with an average of 25 to 30 hours per week. There are two overall schemes for working times - a continuous session from 7 am to 1 pm ; or in 2 daily sessions from 8 am to noon, then from 1 pm to 4 pm.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Detainees always eat in their cells.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Detainees are paid monthly, the salary being calculated per working hours. The wage may vary according to their efficiency.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Education is compulsory for detainees under 16, and a priority for those under 18. Possibilities of working for the under 18 are limited by law. There is no financial compensation mechanism for school (unless when included in a professional training). When the choice is offered, detainees will in fact choose to work and have an income, to the detriment of education.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?350 companies have located a production line in workshop prisons. Most of avalaible jobs in workshops don’t need any particular working skills and don’t develop fields of competence among workers. Such jobs (packaging, processing) aren’t found anymore on the national labour market. The French department of prison aims at developing more qualifying jobs among its workshops and at being more in interaction with the labour market, in order to support rehabilitation in the long term trough vocational reinforcement of detainees.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?7 out of the 188 French prisons have their own bakery. They are run with detainees workforce, managed by correctional or external staffs. Detainees work in these bakeries from 7 am until noon or 1 pm. In the afternoon, the bakeries are used as a platform where graduating professional trainings take place.
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Our clients work between 6-8 hours/day. Working hours differs between our prisons but is set between 30-40 hours/week.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Lunch is served in the dining room, or the accomodation section. No food is served in the workshops.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Our clients earn 13 SEK/hour for all types of employment (work, studies, treatment, service work etc.). If the client is working outside office hours (Monday-Friday 07.30-19.00) he/she will receive an additional payment of 16 SEK/hour. If the client is working more than 8 hours/day or 40 hours/week, he/she will receive an additional payment of 19.50 SEK/hour. If the supervisor makes the assessment that a client is underperforming, he/she will earn 8 SEK/hour. If there is not enough employment, or the client is on sick leave etc., he/she will earn 6.50 SEK/hour. Payments are beeing made every other week.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?The choice of employment for each client is beeing made based on the risk and needs assessment that is done for every client. No kind of employment is beeing prioritized or worth more. Studies are seen as payed employment and is conducted during regular agenda. The clients often have a mixture of employments. For example, he/she can do labour work Monday-Wednesday, studies on Thursday and then go to treatment on Friday. There are also clients who only have one type of employment. However, the most common thing is a mixture of different types of employments.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?There is a number of prisons that offer vocational training of which the Swedish Public Employment Service identifies a need for in the society. These trainings are mainly taking place in the work shops conducted by procured personnel but also to some extent by our own personnel. Some prisons have a good coverage using their own products or contract manufacturing.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?The Swedish Prison and Probation Service does not have its own bakeries. There are, however, kitchens in basically all prisons. Prisoners are in some prisons cooking their own food, under the supervision of the staff. We do also offer large-scale catering establishment training. Some prisons also have self-management as employment where some prisonerns cook food for their own sections. Working hours are between 30-40 hours/week where some of the scheduling may be outside of office hours.
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In accordance with § 50 StVG (Austrian correctional service Act) the extent of the working hours should be adapted as far as possible to the general conditions in the commercial sector, but inso-far as agricultural and forestry work is concerned, to the conditions in agriculture and forestry. Daily working hours must be interrupted by at least two longer recovery breaks. On Sundays and public holidays, work has to be interrupted, unless it is necessary for the estab-lishment's business or for other reasons where the establishment's needs cannot be postponed, or because the nature of the specific work does not tolerate any interruption. With the same re-strictions, prisoners may not be employed during other times, when, according to their believes, rest is required.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Daily work-hours have to be interrupted by a minimum of two longer recovery breaks. Depending on the prison and the circumstances, meals are taken at different locations. A general statement about the consumption of lunch can therefore not be made. However, there has not been given any negative feedback on experiences on this regard.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?The amount of the remuneration is laid down by § 52 StVG and depends on the necessary ef-fort and quality of the work to be carried out. According to § 32 (2) and (3) StVG, 75% of the remuneration is retained as a contribution to the enforcement costs. On average, an inmate in an Austrian prison receives around 5 Euro per day of imprisonment after deduction of the en-forcement fee and the contribution to unemployment insurance (50% of this is freely available as “house money”, 50% is saved as “prison money”, which is reserved for specific purposes). The wage is paid out and offset monthly to the inmate’s account.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Convicts and prisoners in precautionary measures of forensic placement, who are fit to work, are obligated by law to work. Prisoners who are required to work have to do the work that has been allocated to them. They must not be employed for work which might endanger their lives or ex-pose them to serious health hazards. Juvenile prisoners are to be employed and, as far as possi-ble, to be educated. They must only be employed for work that also implies an educational value. They should be primarily employed for work on the outside. For prisoners on remand, Austrian law does not foresee any work obligation. Adult prisoners on remand who are fit to work may volunteer to work under the same conditions that are valid for convicted prisoners, if such work is possible without jeopardising the security and the order in the prison. In addition, no disadvantage for the criminal court proceedings must be expected. As a matter of principle, there are various options for training and further education available to convicted prisoners. Depending on the facilities available and the prisoner population in the pris-on, these options can be offered to different extents. Male juvenile prisoners in the prison for juveniles Gerasdorf may acquire their mandatory school-leaving qualification during detention; the same applies to female juvenile prisoners in the wom-en’s prison Schwarzau. If needed, mandatory school-leaving qualifications can also be acquired in the wards for juveniles at court prisons. School is being paid and financed fully by the state.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?All prisons have their own operational units and workshops, which provide opportunities for work activities. The work options range from workshops for classic handicraft trades, through so called outsourcing units, where contract work for outside companies is carried out, through maintenance work (building cleaning, maintaining the prison premises), to work in agricultural or forestry operations. By day-release, provided the conditions for relaxed regime detention are fulfilled, work deployment even outside the prison is possible. In some prisons, prisoners have the option of taking intensive courses for a specialized worker training. In cooperation with the Public Employment Service and the Vocation Training Institute, abbreviated apprenticeship trainings in various handicraft trades are made available. Practical trainings take place in apprenticeship training units of the respective prison, lessons of theory are provided by external and internal trainers. Graduates from such intensive courses of specialized worker trainings will receive a neutral certificate, which does not indicate that the training was taken in a prison. Shorter training paths are provided by so-called specialized courses. Specialised courses are mostly organised in cooperation with the Vocation Training Institute or the Institute for Econom-ic Development, and include courses for waiters and cooks, language courses for English and German, courses for forklift operators, computer courses, welding courses and courses for per-sonality development. As a rule, participants receive a certificate of having attended the special-ised course. It goes without saying, that regular multi-annual vocational training is available only to prisoners with prison terms of several years. In some correctional institutions vocational train-ing programmes for several trades are offered, some prisons have their own trade schools, which offer multi-annual regular vocational training. In many prisons it is possible to acquire the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) or to obtain other qualifications in the field of IT.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?Prison bakeries are operated by prison staff and run with detainees. The daily working times cor-responds to the extent of the normal conditions in this commercial field.
Detainees work in prison kitchens, laundries, waste management, industrial cleaning, building maintenance, printing workshops for an average of 5 hours per day, for 5 days per week. A small number of detainees in Open Centres work in external approved employment for 35 hours per week
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?The majority of detainees are served food from serveries on their prison landings and eat their meals in their cells. Detainees working in prison kitchens usually have their meals in the catering area
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?The is a standard approved work gratuity payment of €3.50 per week on top of the prisoner’s own daily gratuity for those prisoners who work in the prisons A small number of detainees in Open Centres who work for approved employers externally ae paid at least the minimum national hourly wage
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?The Irish Prison Service operate an Incentivised Regimes system. Three levels of Regime are available: Basic, Standard and Enhanced. Each level has varying access to phone calls, Visits and prisoner gratuity. Prisoners engaged in constructive activity to a required level, including school and work, are eligible for inclusion in the Enhanced regime level, which has the highest rate of daily gratuity. There is not a priority ranking between work and school in prisons, both are equally valued. Detainees who work in prison kitchens, laundries, waste management, industrial cleaning, building maintenance, printing workshops etc. are paid the approved work gratuity of €3.50 per week in addition to the daily gratuity.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?Detainees who work in the above areas or who participate in training programmes are provided with recognised accreditation and qualifications, including catering, laundry, cleaning, building skills etc., all of which are relevant to the labour market
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?There is one prison bakery which is supervised by prison staff and staffed by detainees. The working hours are 8am-6pm.
Inmates may work up to 8 hours per day. They have two days off per week. Inmates may not be appointed to work on public holidays and days off, except for the cases stipulated by the labour laws.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Usually inmates have lunch in a prison dining room or their cells. Inmates eat in their workplaces only when they work outside prison and are not able to come back for lunch.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Inmates are paid according to quality and quantity of their work. When work can be measured by specific indicators, inmates are paid on a piece rate basis. When work cannot be measured by specific indicators, inmates get paid per hour. Inmates employed in continuous long-term jobs are paid monthly wages. The specific wages are determined by applying the coefficients approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Every inmate is obliged to work if he/she is offered a job by the prison administration. The prison administration is obliged to ensure inmates’ inclusion to work taking in consideration inmates' working capacity and qualification, if possible. General education is obligatory for sentenced juveniles up to 16 years old. Both work and studies are considered positive occupation which has a positive impact on inmates’ rehabilitation. Inmates are encouraged to study by providing them with financial allowances.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?A special state enterprise was established to assist the prisons with the employment of inmates, and it maintains good links with the labor market.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?No bakery in prisons
The number of hours prisoners work per day/ per weeks varies from prison to prison. The standard set by the benchmark is 28.75 hours per week but that is dependent on staffing, and the operational issues that occur on a daily basis. The arrangements in the open prison estate are very different though, with many prisoners working a full working week.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?In the majority of prisons, prisoners are taken back to prison wings for their lunch, typically for an hour. The movements time though makes this much longer.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Prisoner pay is at the discretion of each prison Governor and local policy. Prisoners are paid a morning and afternoon session rate, although there is often a suggested average pay rate.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?Both are valued and both are delivered during the day. Prisoner pay is at the discretion of each prison Governor. Much of this would be dependent on sentence planning requirements, and the ability presented by the prisoner during the basic skills analysis that is carried out on reception during the induction process. Attendance at education classes is regarded as paid employment.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?Public Sector Prison Industries (PSPI) manage Industries delivery across 95 prisons in England and Wales, and currently operate 472 industries workshops employing over 520 staff and around 10,000 prisoners and detainees. Our industries include Engineering, Plastic moulding, Land Based Activities, Laundries, Print, Textiles, Waste Management and Recycling, Woodwork and some work for other Government Departments (OGDs). The supply contracts for these Industries are valued circa: £32 million. All work carried out in custody enables prisoners to gain the requisite skills that enable them to become job ready on release. The majority of workshops, with the exception of laundries, waste management and a small number of textile workshops (manufacturing PPE for the NHS) were deemed non-essential during the period of lockdown following the Covid-19 outbreak and were closed. Prior to the outbreak, workshops were running well, Public Sector Prison Industries were able to comfortably meet demand for prisoner clothing and equipment, and had reduced reliance on the commercial market for contingency stock. Where possible, PSPI try to mimic the experience of prisoners and qualifications offered to the commercial market to aid with employment opportunities on release. The New Futures Network (NFN), is the specialist part of the prison service that brokers partnerships between prisons and employers. These partnerships help businesses fill skills gaps and prisoners to find employment on release. NFN brokers three types of partnership: 1. Prison industries: when businesses set up commercial workspaces in prisons, staffed by serving prisoners. These range from carpentry to coding, to operating call centres. 2. Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL): when risk-assessed prisoners leave prison each day to work for employers in the community. This can be for a full working week, over an extended period. 3. Employment on release: when employers offer opportunities to ex-offenders, following their release from prison. This can follow seeing a prisoner work in a prison industry workshop or in a workplace during ROTL.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?Prisons with bakeries are managed by prison staff, but they do employ a prisoner labour force.
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Selected provisions of the Labour Code (basic labour-legal regulation that regulates labour relations in the civil environment) are adequately used for inclusion the prisoners to work. One of these provisions is also the provision on working time. That means, as with other employees, the working time of a prisoner included to work is a maximum of 40 hours per week. A prisoner who has working time scheduled so that he regularly performs work in rotation in both shifts in two-shifts operation, has a working time no more than 38 and ¾ hours per week. In all shifts in thee-shifts operation or in continuous operation, the working time of such prisoners can be no more than 37 and a half hour per week. Between the end of one shift and the beginning of another, there must be a minimum rest of 12 consecutive hours (in extraordinary cases, e.g. urgent repair works needed in order to avert the danger of life or health, this rest can be reduced to 8 hours).
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?In case a prisoner is included to work, which does not enable the meals distribution in the canteen or in the cell (mainly workshops outside the prison), then the meals are distributed directly in the workshop area. The room designed for consumption of meals is determined by the specific spatial possibilities of the workshop.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?The work remuneration shall belong to the prisoner according to the type of performed work, time usage or labour input norm. The amount of the work remuneration (its components and calculation method), the characteristics of individual salary classes and the conditions of its provision shall be stipulated by the Government of the Slovak Republic by its statute. The work remuneration of the pre-trial detainee and prisoner included to work consists of the working tariff, overtime bonus, bonus for work on Saturday and Sunday, bonus for work on public holiday, nightshift bonus, bonus for work in a difficult and unhealthy work environment, personal bonus.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?The school education program, retraining course and course for illiterates are usually organised in such study form that it does not interfere with the fulfilment of working responsibilities of the prisoner. The exception is the inclusion of the prisoner to the school education program or retraining course that will enable the prisoner to obtain knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform a profession or to perform professional activities in the field of study with the need of inclusion to work in the prison conditions or with insufficient number of graduates for the need of labour market.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?The Corps of Prison and Court Guard does not currently monitor the prisoners working after their release. In accordance with the fundamental strategic document (Strategic Framework of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard), we will try to evaluate the aim called as “Increasing of competences of inmates” also according to the percentage of released prisoners employed within one month after their release.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?Similarly as in other specialised works within internal prison production (works where products are produced or services are offered for internal prison consumption), additionally to the prisoners, there are also present the professional prison staff who are trained by an external company which also supplies bakery mixes. In the bakery in the prison Leopoldov, 8 prisoners work in two-shift operation, who are classified as journeyman baker. The operation of the furnace, its cleaning and routine maintenance is ensured by one prisoner classified as understocker. Cleanliness, order and general disinfection is ensured by two prisoners classified as cleaners. This bakery produces on average 600 pc of 1.5 kg wheat-rye bread per day. There are also produced graham and fat pastries. In 2019, this bakery baked 216 858 pc of bread and 75 463 pc of pastries. The bakery employs also two civil employees; one of them ensures the management and operation of the production process and another the shipment of final products.
- depending on the needs of the penitentiary for the work of prisoners and the type of work, daily working hours are organized to last up to 8 hours, during daily working hours prisoners are entitled to a break of 30 minutes during the meal, and break time is also recorded as working hours. The total weekly working time is up to 40 hours.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?- Lunch is usually served to prisoners after working hours, snack that prisoners consume during breaks at work, is served depending on the place of work, most often in the dining areas located within the penitentiaries, and exceptionally at the workplace, and only in cases where the work is performed outside prisons and penitentiaries.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?- Remuneration for prisoners is paid once a month, and the unit of account is an hour. The prisoner's remuneration depends on the coefficient of complexity of the work performed by the prisoner, and the complexity of the work is divided into six groups. Prisoners performing jobs from the same complexity group receive the same remuneration for work, while those assigned to work in different groups of complex jobs are paid differently.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?- As far as work and education are concerned, both are valued, so the ranking of priorities depends on the specifics and needs of each prisoner individually.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?- a number of workshops generate significant revenues and are well connected to the labor market.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?- Most penal institunsios do not have their own bakeries, so they order bakery products from external suppliers. The penitentiary, which has its own bakery, hires prisoners for ancillary jobs, and an employee with professional qualifications is employed in the bakery. The work engagement of prisoners is from 6 am to 2 pm and is 8 hours a day.
It is possible to share work and activities unevenly across the days of the week. Due to the calculation of the daily allowance, the regular working and operating time of the prison is standardised for 7 hours in the Prison Information System/datasystem. A prisoner can participate in different activities weekly or daily; for example, in the morning for work and in the afternoon for a rehabilitation group. In some cases, a prisoner can only participate in activities half-time. The prisoner can also participate only on some days of the week, for example on Tuesday and Thursday. In principle, however, prisoners must be placed in the activity for 35 hours on a weekly basis.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Prisoners do not eat at workshop areas in the closed prisons. They eat lunch in the living quarters.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Prisoners participating in work, education, or rehabilitation are paid a tax-free activity allowance. The activity allowance is 3.01 or 4.26 euros per day in closed prisons and 4.62 or 7.35 euros per day in open prisons. Payment of the activity allowance starts from the lowest category. The operating allowance is promoted to a higher category when participation is regular and the prisoner actively participates in the activity and progresses according to the sentence plan. A prisoner may be paid a commission for packaging and assembly work and comparable contract work on the basis of the amount of work performed. The commission is paid in addition to the activity allowance and can be up to 20% of the activity allowance. In addition to the activity allowance, the prisoners receive an expense allowance, which is 1.60 euros per each prison day, including weekends. The expense allowance is also given to remand prisoners. The prisoners can receive so-called open prison wages for work done for some other employer than the Criminal Sanctions Agency, such as local municipalities. The open prison wages can be 4.70 or 5.00 euros per hour and it is taxable income. During the orientation to the work, the prisoners can receive the activity allowance. The expense allowance, which is 1.60 euros per each prison day, is paid on top of the open prison wages. An activity or expense allowance can be left unpaid in full or in part if the prisoner receives support for the said activity from other authorities (e.g. study grant).
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?No, there is not priority ranking between work and school. Both are equally valued. Prisoners are paid activity allowance of both activities and they can work or study during the day according to the individual sentence plan. In many workshops, work and education are combined: prisoners can complete vocational qualifications or parts of them in addition to work. The prison works in close co-operation with vocational schools.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?At the moment, we do not have workshops with a particularly good connection to the labor market. We are working to develop this, for example in the catering sector there is a shortage of labor in assistive positions.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?There are no own bakeries in prisons in Finland.
In general the detainees work 7 hours per day from Monday to Friday, from 8 am – 15 pm, including lunch lasting for 45 min to an hour. Overall working schedule is 35 hours per week. Other working hours may be determined where this is necessary for the running of the prison. On weekends, in general, only work that is necessary for the running of the prisons should be performed e.g cleaning.
During lunchtime, do detainees eat in the workshop areas or in their cells? For those prisons where detainees eat in workshop areas, what is your experiences?Locations during lunch, varies from one unit to another, depending amongst others on appropriate facilities /rooms. In some prisons, the detainees have their lunch in connection with the workshop if there are facilities that allow for this. In other prisons, the inmates have their lunch in the common areas. Yet others have lunch in their cells.
How are detainees being paid (per hour, per day, per month) and does everyone receive the same wage or are there differences? If yes, which factors determine how much they receive?Inmates that are working, attend school or participate in program activities receive a daily allowance of 72 NOK. The amount is similar for weekdays and weekends. For especially important work, inmate can receive 29 NOK in addition to the 72 NOK. Detainees who are absent from or refuse to take part in the activities to which they are assigned shall not be granted daily allowances. They will instead receive a benefit allowance amounting to 49 NOK per day. If complete or partial cellular confinement pursuant to the Execution of Sentences Act, entails exclusion from work, benefit allowance of 49 NOK per day is granted. Detainees who are not themselves to blame for being without work, training or activities shall be awarded a daily allowance of 72 NOK per day. Detainees can be deducted from their daily allowances in the event of unregulated absence and poor work effort. When assessing the work effort, consideration is given to the inmate's abilities, health and other conditions. These rules apply regardless of whether the prisoner has private funds or saved daily allowances for work he or she has previously performed. The Directorate of the Norwegian Correctional Service regulates the amount of daily allowances and benefit allowances annually and sets further conditions.
Is there a priority ranking between work and school? Are both equally valued or is work more important in a way that detainees working during the day can only access school after work? Is school being paid?There are no priority ranking between work and school. The inmates receive the same amount. It is not possible to attend classes after work. However, it is possible to combine the two. Many detainees work until lunch and continue with school after lunch.
Are there prisons that have workshops that are running well and that have a good link to the labour market?Many prisons have well-functioning workshops with good connection to the labourmarked.
To those prisons, that have an own bakery: Is the bakery running with detainees or external staff? What is the working schedule for detainees?There are no prisons that have their own bakery.
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