Author Description

This book is divided into four parts. Part one deals with the legal framework of prison labour, its goals and guiding principles, the organisation and management of labour, and the legal status given to inmate workers. In parts two and three the author considers the gap that can separate law and practice. Based on her fieldwork in nine prisons, she compares the way legislation is implemented and how work is perceived by inmates. Part four focuses on the constraints and difficulties with which prison labour has to contend, and discusses the reforms proposed by the three countries.