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The Campaign Against Prison Slavery (CAPS) was formed in 2002 by ex-prisoners, prisoner support groups and activists to campaign against compulsory labour in UK prisons and for the abolition of the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme (IEP).

Compulsory labour is a feature of most prison systems a round the world, whether it be forced hard labour as punishment, direct 'reparation' for the costs of imprisonment, prison jobs such as kitchen or cleaning work that keep administration costs down or workshop jobs where prisoners manufacture the cell doors and prison bars for the jails that house them.

However, the modern prison has also developed into a system for generating capital from a section of society that up until now has largely been held to have no intrinsic labour value, the marginalised elements that tend to be trapped on a roundabout of regular incarceration, never to hold down a 'proper' job or become a 'productive member of society'. Thus we now also have in the modern prison system the prisoners who are used to create capital for private sector companies, either through labour in prison workshops manufacturing and packing goods for these companies or those prisoners handed over wholesale to the global outsourcing and security companies that run the private prisons, to do with as they wish, often 'sub-contracting' them out to third party companies.


From Article 2 of the International Labour Organisation's Forced Labour Convention No. 29

1. For the purposes of this Convention the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall mean all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.

2. Nevertheless, for the purposes of this Convention the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include:
c ) Any work or service exacted from any person as a consequence of a conviction in a court of law, provided that the said work or service is carried out under the supervision and control of a public authority and that the said person is not hired to or placed at the disposal of private individuals, companies or associations.

 
 HMPS Prisons Lists


PRISONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES WITH WORKSHOPS FACILITIES AND OTHER ENTERPRISES THAT EITHER CURRENTLY OR HAVE PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED PRISONERS

[* Prisons that have had successful Freedom of Information requests made for them.]

HMP Acklington *
HMP Ashwell *
HMP/YOI Askham Grange
HMYOI Aylesbury

HMP Bedford
HMP Belmarsh *
HMP Birmingham *
HMP Blantyre House
HMP Blundeston
HMYOI Brinsford
HMP Bristol
HMP Brixton
HMP Buckley Hall
HMP Bullingdon *
HMP/YOI Bullwood Hall
HMP Bure

HMP Canterbury *
HMP Cardiff *
HMP Castington
HMP Channings Wood *
HMP/YOI Chelmsford
HMP Coldingley *
HMP/YOI Cookham Wood

HMP Dartmoor *
HMYOI Deerbolt
HMP Dorchester *
HMP Dover IRC
HMP Downview *
HMP/YOI Drake Hall *
HMP Durham *

HMP/YOI East Sutton Park
HMP Eastwood Park
HMP Edmunds Hill
HMP Erlestoke *
HMP Everthorpe *
HMP/YOI Exeter *

HMP Featherstone *
HMYOI Feltham *
HMP Ford *
HMP/YOI Foston Hall
HMP Frankland
HMP Full Sutton *

HMP Garth *
HMP Gartree *
HMYOI Glen Parva *
HMP/YOI Gloucester *
HMP Grendon
HMP Guys Marsh *

HMP Haslar IRC
HMP Haverigg *
HMP Hewell
     (Blakenhurst/Brockhill/Hewell Grange) *
HMP High Down *
HMP Highpoint *
HMP/YOI Holloway
HMP Holme House
HMP Hull

HMP Isle Of Wight
     (Albany/Camp Hill/Parkhurst) *

HMP Kennet
HMP Kingston *
HMP Kirkham *
HMP Kirklevington Grange

  

HMYOI Lancaster Farms
HMP Latchmere House
HMP Leeds
HMP Leicester *
HMP Lewes *
HMP Leyhill *
HMP Lincoln
HMP Lindholme *
HMP/YOI Littlehey *
HMP Liverpool *
HMP Long Lartin *
HMP/YOI Low Newton

HMP Maidstone *
HMP Manchester *
HMP/YOI Moorland (Closed) *
HMP/YOI Moorland (Open)
HMP Morton Hall *

HMP/YOI New Hall *
HMP North Sea Camp
HMP/YOI Norwich *
HMP Nottingham *

HMP Onley

HMP Pentonville *
HMYOI Portland *
HMP Preston

HMP Ranby *
HMYOI Reading
HMP Risley *
HMYOI Rochester *

HMP Send *
HMP Sheppey Cluster
     (Elmley/Standford Hill/Swaleside) *
HMP Shepton Mallet *
HMP Shrewsbury *
HMP Spring Hill *
HMP Stafford *
HMP Stocken *
HMYOI Stoke Heath *
HMP Styal *
HMP Sudbury *
HMP Swansea
HMYOI Swinfen Hall *

HMP The Mount *
HMP The Verne *

HMP Usk/Prescoed

HMP Wakefield *
HMP Wandsworth *
HMP Wayland *
HMP Wealstun *
HMP Wellingborough *
HMYOI Weatherby
HMP Whatton *
HMP Whitemoor *
HMP Winchester *
HMP Woodhill
HMP Wormwood Scrubs
HMP Wymott *

WORKSHOP LISTINGS BY TYPE*

 

* Taken largely from the HMPS evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's First Report on the Rehabilitation of Prisoners 2004.
  Prison Facts

STATISTICS FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION vs. THE GENERAL PRISON POPULATION

Ran away from home as a child - 11% vs. 47% of male and 50% of female sentenced prisoners

Taken into care as a child
- 2% vs. 27%

Regularly truanted from school
- 3% vs. 30%

Excluded from school
- 2% vs. 49% of male and 33% of female sentenced prisoners

No qualifications
- 15% vs. 52% of men and 71% of women

Numeracy at or below Level 1
- 23% vs. 65%
(level expected of 11 year-olds)

Reading ability at or below Level 1 -
21-23% vs. 48%

Unemployed before imprisonment
- 5% vs. 67%

Homeless - 0.9% vs. 32%

Drug use in the previous year
- 13% men and 8% women vs. 66% of male and 55% of female sentenced prisoners

Hazardous drinking
- 38% men and 15% women vs. 63% of male and 39% of female
sentenced prisoners

[Bromley Briefings June 09]