Sentence examples for prison industries from inspiring English sources

Your commendable June 6 Business Day article "Behind Bars and on the Clock" reports that 85,000 prisoners are working in prison industries.

Her speech followed one by the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, who was cheered several times – albeit by a half-empty hall – as he revealed details of his plan for a major expansion of prison industries to get most prisoners working a full, 40-hour week in public sector prisons.

Nevertheless, some prisoners do "voluntarily" work for the prison industries.

Supermax prisoners are not permitted to work in prison industries, take part in group free time on the yard, or participate in substance-abuse treatment, spiritual support groups, classroom assistance toward a high-school G.E.D., or any other prison programming.

U.S. Supermax prisoners are not permitted to work in prison industries, take part in group free time on the yard, or participate in substance-abuse treatment, spiritual support groups, classroom assistance toward a high-school G.E.D., or any other prison programming.

Currently, fewer than one in eight inmates work in prison industries.

Eliminate the private prison industry, which encourages incarceration.

Competing studies — some financed by the prison industry — have argued over claims of savings.

The prison industry is the foundation of local economies in many parts of the state.

That drop may be a harbinger of changing fortunes in the for-profit prison industry.

And, finally, reform could frustrate the private prison industry's unconscionable efforts to profit off mass incarceration.