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The Payment of Prisoners

In: Selected Essays on Economic Policy

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  • G. C. Harcourt

    (Jesus College
    University of Adelaide)

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At the present time, prisoners in all gaols in Australia are paid at very low rates (well under 4/- a day). These rates of pay make it virtually impossible for any but long-sentence-men to accumulate a sizable fund to take with them on release. As released men are not eligible for unemployment benefits until a fortnight after their release (they can register after a week but do not receive a week’s pay until a fortnight is up) unless they have a job to go to, or get a job almost immediately, and unless they are paid in advance, they may be forced into crime again. Good resolutions made in prison, and attempts at rehabilitation by prison and welfare officers, will then be thwarted by their material needs in that vital first fortnight.

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  • G. C. Harcourt, 2001. "The Payment of Prisoners," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Selected Essays on Economic Policy, chapter 20, pages 279-283, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51056-2_20
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230510562_20
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