Sentence examples for prison workshops from inspiring English sources

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.

And Timpsons – the high street retailer offering shoe repair, key cutting and engraving services – has its own programme for employing ex-offenders, running pre-release training inside several prison workshops across the UK.

The banquet seating and tables – handcrafted in prison workshops – couldn't be further from the image of prison life.

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

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.

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

He taught many of his fellow prisoners how to play chess, and was known for his impeccable stitching in the prison workshop.

During her three years in prison, she said, she endured frequent indignities: An officer once urinated on her face, she said, and prison officials often took away her crutches, forcing her to crawl from her cell to the prison workshop.