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Legislators Wants To Force Prisoners To Work
If Carlos Gutiérrez,
legislator of the Movimiento Libertario, has
his way prisoners in Costa Rica will have to
earn their keep.
The legislator presented the bill to force
prisoners to work while being incarcerated,
not only to help financially their families
on the outside, but to compensate their
victims and defray the cost to the state to
keep them locked up.
The bill would reform the Código Penal
(Penal Code) and include a 10% tax break to
companies that create jobs for prisoners.
"It is not conceivable that honest people
have to work hard to food on the table,
while criminals can choose to work or not",
said Gutiérrez.
The legislator said that the proposal
adheres to the International Labour
Organization (ILO), the American Convention
on Human Rights (signed at the
Inter-American Specialized Conference on
Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica, 22
November 1969) and the Costa Rica's
political constitution.
The bill proposes that a judge can impose a
prisoner to work while incarcerated, based
on the criteria of the Adaptación Social
(prison system).
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