Changes to the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme will mean male inmates must "actively earn privileges", such as access to television and the right to wear their own clothes, rather than receive them by default through an absence of bad behaviour.
Units operate points-based systems which allow their residents to earn privileges by good behaviour.
Prisoners need to earn privileges, not simply through the avoidance of bad behaviour but also by working, taking part in education or accepting the opportunities to rehabilitate themselves".
If the government really wants to get prisoners working and busy so that they can earn privileges, then it needs to invest in activities.
The report made clear that within the traditional system patients had to earn privileges, among them to see visitors, to leave the grounds and to have their own clothes.
As part of a part of a package of measures to appease right-wing complaints that prisons are too lax inmates will be made to "earn privileges" that are currently automatic.
Prisoners need to earn privileges, not simply through the avoidance of bad behaviour but also by working, taking part in education or accepting the opportunities to rehabilitate themselves," Grayling said.
Grayling said that under the new policy, the lack of bad behaviour would not be enough to earn privileges; instead inmates would have to work actively towards rehabilitation and help other prisoners.
It has 52 members 12 to 45 years old, who work for a certain number of hours a month without pay but earn privileges like admission to classes, discounts on materials, access to tools and even rebuilt bikes.
On April 30th he announced that the absence of bad behaviour will no longer be enough to earn privileges; prisoners must show "positive engagement" with their own rehabilitation.Prison privileges include access to private cash, television in cells, more family visits, the opportunity to wear one's own clothes and to work in better-paid jobs, and more time outside the cells.
