Sentence examples for prison workshop from inspiring English sources

Stealing a carborundum abrasive cord from the prison workshop, the prisoners removed the rivets from the grill.

A spokeswoman for the company says that the prison workshop runs to commercial standards, and allows prisoners many hours a day away from their cells.

Because of prison regimes, full-time employment in a prison workshop averages about 20 hours a week, and prisoners say it would be rare to earn more than £8 a week.

Because of prison regimes, full-time employment in a prison workshop would average about 20 hours a week, and prisoners say it would be rare to earn more than £8 a week.

Inside the prison workshop, inmates are busy sanding, drilling, staining and painting, always under the watch of corrections officers.

The following year, Wall and a group of actors undertook their first prison workshop in HMP Woodhill, a category A prison near Milton Keynes.

Contracts with companies are arranged by a little-known Ministry of Justice department called Prison Industries, which says there are over 300 prison workshops, employing around 10,000 prisoners each weekday.

This would look at things like the impact on prisoners' welfare in a profit-driven environment, where prison workshops are increasingly a source of income and have little to do with training and rehabilitation.

Following sabotage by the prisoners and the Maze Prison escape in 1983 the prison workshops were closed, effectively granting all of the "Five Demands" but without any formal recognition of political status from the government.

Issues raised, such as homophobia in the prison system, euthanasia for life prisoners, and most recently sex offenders making children's toys in prison workshops are often picked up by the national press.

At Nottingham prison, workshops are sometimes less than half full because wings are locked down or staff are unavailable.