Gordon Brown said a plan for compulsory community service would be included in Labour's manifesto.
Other possible sanctions include a fine of up to £500, compulsory community service or the signing of a 'behavioural contract'.
She got into boxing through a compulsory community-service program after she broke one girl's jaw and another's nose in a street fight.
They typically spend one day a week at the market, another at church and perhaps a third doing compulsory community work.
They propose sanctions for claimants who refuse jobs, compulsory community work for the long-term jobless and extra screening for incapacity-benefit claimants, with those deemed fit for work turfed onto the stingier jobseeker's allowance.
They may also be imposed on some people who have left the Work Programme, some of whom will be required to go on to a form of compulsory community service in return for benefits.
Your Oct. 28 front-page article "Focus on Terror Creates Burden for the Police" highlights the need for a national debate on the merits of requiring young people to provide our country with compulsory community service.
After serving their compulsory community service in the townships, most doctors, lawyers, dentists and surgeons are hightailing it to America, Britain, or Australia, where getting raped and killed inside your own home is substantially less likely.
However, the impact of compulsory community treatment on patients' satisfaction with their treatment is unclear.
Compulsory community treatment was introduced as one of the amendment to the Mental Health Act 1983.
