Prison farming is a penal facility where prisoners are put to work doing manual labour. Prison farms serve a number of functions. According to
Magezi,(2013)the following are the functions of prison farming:
- Prisoners acquire skills and knowledge which becomes useful in their future. - They produce food for the prisoners and allow them to benefit from a good diet,
- Prisoners benefit from good farming practices, and get rehabilitated, such that, when they are through with their terms, they become productive citizens. - Prisoners benefit from a normal working day in an open environment, and may enjoy financial compensation, when they have completed their jail terms. Erlich (1994) establishes that, in some regions, hard labour
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29 and ICCPR are silent on the issue of remuneration for enforced prison labour unlike the ICESCR which guarantees to everyone the right to work and the right to just and favourable conditions of work including adequate remuneration to secure his dignity and that of his or her dependants.
The SMR are a set of 95 rules that set out the minimum standards below which prisons’ establishment should not fall. They were adopted by the
First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1955 and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and amended by resolution 2076
(LXII) of 13 May 1977. They contain rules which have become part of customary international law and therefore, they are fastening upon states.
The rules also make provision for sufficient work of a useful nature and which will also maintain or increase prisoners’ ability to earn an straightforward living after release and call for provision of vocational training in useful trades (Smith, 2005).
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Inmates cultivated special fruits and vegetables which were sold to restaurants. Ex-convicts from this programme were also expectant to set up small farms of their own and during the parole system sold their produce at competitive prices to these restaurants in San Francisco.
The commitment of prisoners in farm labour is measurement of a philosophy of social reintegration, contribution and social enclosure. The objective is to restore the tradition of working, erect up knowledge skills and build self-worth. These aspects should ultimately enable them to find service in the usual labour bazaar and re-integrate into society. Part of the way of life is also the belief that physical labour generates comfort as well as the capacity for work (Hine 2008). Agriculture offers the type of physical, untrained labour that is successively low on regular labour markets.
On the most critical level, allowing inmates to employment reduces inmate idleness and fosters wisdom of productivity among prisoners (Atkinson and
Rostad 2003). Service of any sort from institutional preservation to industry programs is valuable from this angle. Prisoner labour, mainly
Magezi,(2013)the following are the functions of prison farming:
- Prisoners acquire skills and knowledge which becomes useful in their future. - They produce food for the prisoners and allow them to benefit from a good diet,
- Prisoners benefit from good farming practices, and get rehabilitated, such that, when they are through with their terms, they become productive citizens. - Prisoners benefit from a normal working day in an open environment, and may enjoy financial compensation, when they have completed their jail terms. Erlich (1994) establishes that, in some regions, hard labour
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29 and ICCPR are silent on the issue of remuneration for enforced prison labour unlike the ICESCR which guarantees to everyone the right to work and the right to just and favourable conditions of work including adequate remuneration to secure his dignity and that of his or her dependants.
The SMR are a set of 95 rules that set out the minimum standards below which prisons’ establishment should not fall. They were adopted by the
First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1955 and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and amended by resolution 2076
(LXII) of 13 May 1977. They contain rules which have become part of customary international law and therefore, they are fastening upon states.
The rules also make provision for sufficient work of a useful nature and which will also maintain or increase prisoners’ ability to earn an straightforward living after release and call for provision of vocational training in useful trades (Smith, 2005).
The attempt to create a balance between commitment to work and the right to work for a convicted prisoner on condition that within the …show more content…
Inmates cultivated special fruits and vegetables which were sold to restaurants. Ex-convicts from this programme were also expectant to set up small farms of their own and during the parole system sold their produce at competitive prices to these restaurants in San Francisco.
The commitment of prisoners in farm labour is measurement of a philosophy of social reintegration, contribution and social enclosure. The objective is to restore the tradition of working, erect up knowledge skills and build self-worth. These aspects should ultimately enable them to find service in the usual labour bazaar and re-integrate into society. Part of the way of life is also the belief that physical labour generates comfort as well as the capacity for work (Hine 2008). Agriculture offers the type of physical, untrained labour that is successively low on regular labour markets.
On the most critical level, allowing inmates to employment reduces inmate idleness and fosters wisdom of productivity among prisoners (Atkinson and
Rostad 2003). Service of any sort from institutional preservation to industry programs is valuable from this angle. Prisoner labour, mainly