Monday, August 01, 2005

Work test for home crims / STUFF New Zealand, 1 Aug 2005

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3363026a10,00.html
Vernon Small
!Prisoners on home detention are to be pushed into finding jobs under a tough new work-testing regime to be put in place later this year. The new rule would in effect switch the burden of proof, from an assumption they could not work to an assumption that they could.
The aim is to find work for 'suitable offenders' while still meeting the requirements of their sentence"