TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION A list of topics is provided in the Manual. Methodology: The trainees should be divided into small groups for discussion. Facilitators from the training team should move around the groups, prompting discussion where necessary. If time allows, a reporting back session should be arranged. Points to be highlighted/suggested areas for discussion: 39. – Consider the relationship between unemployment and imprisonment; 39. – Prisoners are largely outside any society. Learning skills that are in demand in society is a way of regaining one’s entry; 39. – The right to work is emphasized as a way of gaining self-respect, especially if the proceeds of that work may be used to the advantage of the prisoner and/or his family; 39. – Possible exploitation is the issue as regards the private company; 39. – The company should not be allowed to pay very low wages to prisoners in order to increase its profits; 39. – The company should not be allowed to operate with lower health and safety standards and poorer general working conditions because its workforce is comprised of prisoners; 39. – It would be difficult to make a case for giving prisoners an advantage over lawabiding people; 39. – The case must be made for giving prisoners forms of employment that are not popular in the local community, lower paid or short-term or erratic in nature; 39. – In some communities, prisoners may be able to do voluntary work, receiving payment only from the prison authorities; 39. – The instruments stress the importance of prisoners being active in constructive and useful activity during the working week; 39. – Prisoners should be treated in all respects in the same way as employed people in the community, having access to their earned income in similar, though controlled, ways. CASE STUDIES Methodology: These may be conducted in groups or as a round-table discussion, with volunteers from among the trainees taking part in each discussion. If the second option is chosen, the main group of trainees should be allowed to make their observations and comments at the end of the period allowed for discussion. 100