Britain’s top-paid prisoners are raking in more than prison officers, with one inmate earning a staggering £46,000 last year. The Telegraph has the details.
Last year, the highest-paid inmate had a net salary of £36,715, according to Home Office data obtained by a freedom of information request. It means their gross pay was about £46,000.
Nine other inmates had net earnings of more than £22,900 last year, the data showed.
Some prisoners in low-security open prisons are allowed to work outside the prison, as long as they are back in the jail confines by the end of the day. …
It is thought these high-earning prisoners do a variety of jobs but one of the most lucrative, which also has some of the fewest security implications, is driving lorries. …
A top-paid inmate’s net salary of £36,715 puts them on a par with the take-home pay of midwives (£36,622), biochemists (£36,586), psychotherapists (£36,602) and chartered surveyors (£35,041).
Such income was also comfortably ahead of the average post-tax pay of PR professionals (£31,452) and probation officers (£29,913), according to wage figures from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
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EppingBlogger
4 months ago
Clear;y they are not really inmates.
It would be a good thing for prisoners to have to work and a large share of their income should be taken as compensation for their crimes and to repay the cost of their stay inside.
Why is it everything we learn from leaks and FOI information shows the bureaucracy in this country to be utterly disfunctional. Remember at the next GE that this did not start in June this year; it has been 14 years of Tories not fixing it too.
At least they’re paying income tax, presumably. Hard to avoid it, given where they are.
Heretic
4 months ago
Since most working people have to pay a huge chunk of their salaries for housing, in rent or mortgages, electric/gas/water bills, house insurance, etc., and since these prisoners live rent-free and get free meals and pay no utilities bills, their true salaries are far higher than that of the chartered accountants in that graph…
How does this class as “Punishment of Criminals for Crime”?
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Clear;y they are not really inmates.
It would be a good thing for prisoners to have to work and a large share of their income should be taken as compensation for their crimes and to repay the cost of their stay inside.
Why is it everything we learn from leaks and FOI information shows the bureaucracy in this country to be utterly disfunctional. Remember at the next GE that this did not start in June this year; it has been 14 years of Tories not fixing it too.
At least they’re paying income tax, presumably. Hard to avoid it, given where they are.
Since most working people have to pay a huge chunk of their salaries for housing, in rent or mortgages, electric/gas/water bills, house insurance, etc., and since these prisoners live rent-free and get free meals and pay no utilities bills, their true salaries are far higher than that of the chartered accountants in that graph…
How does this class as “Punishment of Criminals for Crime”?