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Closed petition Prisoners should be used as cheap labour to improve public infrastructure

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Low risk prisoners should be used to provide cheap labour (maybe in return for shorter sentence) in order to reduce the burden on the tax payer and the national deficit exerted by large public projects e.g. roads, railways

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