UK’s best paid prison inmate earned £46k last year – more than most nurses and teachers

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1. And you can do it too, they’re lorry drivers.

   Low security prisons make an enormous difference to reduce reoffending and have a very, very low rate of absconding. People who abscond get caught and sent back to high security, none of the offenders want that.

2. Seems like a really good idea.

3. I don’t see the problem.

   They’re low risk prisoners who worked for a private company, they should be paid for their labour, same as you when you work.

   This whole article is just rage bait.

4. The real story is how lorry drivers are overtaking nurses and teachers in the pay scales 

5. Great idea. Better than them sitting around doing nothing. Big fan of anything that improves the skills of prisoners so when they’re ready for release they have something to jump into. Not having this is often what leads to reoffending.

6. I don’t really see the issue.

   They’re costing taxpayers money to be in prison yet they’re also paying tax themselves.

7. Giving prisoners a shot at not reoffending when they come out doesn’t seem like a terrible idea to me tbh. I get why some people will be frustrated but that’s so argument for better pay across the board not dragging everyone else down. 

8. Well if he worked for it, and it will help him not reoffend then what’s the issue here??

   The real problem is that nurses and teachers are paid badly, not that low-risk prisoners have a functioning rehabilitation option.

9. I would just like to add that one of the major reasons for reoffending on release from prison is that lots of ex-inmates have nothing when they are released. Depending on the length of sentence and their situation before going to prison, many are released into homelessness and almost always unemployment.

   Many will argue that, they get what they deserve, but if you genuinely want to live in a society with lower crime, then you need to understand that rehabilitation doesn’t start and finish with the sentence the person receives.

   Deprivation of liberty is a punishment, one that you can only understand after you have experienced it. People will consistently talk about how ‘easy’ life is in prison, but I can assure you that almost none of these people have ever been inside a HMP establishment!

   So when I read about people who do actually make the effort to work on themselves while inside, be it through education, work or getting off drugs. I have a genuine respect for them.

   As someone else has already commented, the real story here, is how little we value our educators and carers.

10. This sub 😂

11. Everyone should just block this account. I am blocking them now

12. So crime does pay….

13. That’s what I want to see, an (ex) convict succeeding.

14. Consider that the Mirror is owned and managed by the same people that own and manage the daily star and the daily express. What integrity can they have when they try to sell to both extremes of the political spectrum with different takes on the same news? For them it’s just a marketing trick to appleal to advertisers, that’s why the company is called Reach plc, because it has a wide reach. This is not a theory, it’s the explanation they gave for the choice of the name, when they changed it from the previous, TrinityMirror.

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