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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