A leading Birmingham criminologist is calling for prisoners to be paid the living wage for jobs they do behind bars.
Professor David Wilson, a former jail governor, says paying the inmates will help slash reoffending by ‘reducing their exclusion from society’.
The Birmingham City University academic made the wage plea in a blog about reforms to the Prison Service.
The voluntary national living wage rate is currently £7.85 an hour outside of London and £9.15 an hour inside London.
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