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In the beginning of the prison system, most inmates were poor anyway. Early workhouses that preceded the penitentiaries were warehousing prostitutes, debtors, beggars, poor people, sick people, orphans, and delinquents alike. It was evident they were not being paid for their work, and they only received what was deemed necessary to sustain them. This is another heritage of pre-constitutional times. Today, in Germany, the "wage" of a working prisoner has been frozen at 9 per cent of the average wage which keeps it far below the minimum wage (one fifth of the current eight euro and fifty cents per hours). | In the beginning of the prison system, most inmates were poor anyway. Early workhouses that preceded the penitentiaries were warehousing prostitutes, debtors, beggars, poor people, sick people, orphans, and delinquents alike. It was evident they were not being paid for their work, and they only received what was deemed necessary to sustain them. This is another heritage of pre-constitutional times. Today, in Germany, the "wage" of a working prisoner has been frozen at 9 per cent of the average wage which keeps it far below the minimum wage (one fifth of the current eight euro and fifty cents per hours). | ||
Needless to say that old age poverty of prisoners is being pre-programmed by the additional discrimination that they are exempt from social security benefits. Months and years of prison work are not even being counted in as work time when it comes to pension claims. Like in some other countries, Germany had promised to do something about all this in the late 1960s, when the reform of imprisonment was higher on the agenda than today, but since then this legal promise has been annulled and never made it back to the agenda of any important political association, not to mention election platforms or legislative initiatives. | Needless to say that old age poverty of prisoners is being pre-programmed by the additional discrimination that they are exempt from social security benefits. Months and years of prison work are not even being counted in as work time when it comes to pension claims. Like in some other countries, Germany had promised to do something about all this in the late 1960s, when the reform of imprisonment was higher on the agenda than today, but since then this legal promise has been annulled and never made it back to the agenda of any important political association, not to mention election platforms or legislative initiatives. Trade unions traditionally do not see working prisoners/imprisoned workers as part of their clientel. | ||
==== Sexual Deprivation ==== | ==== Sexual Deprivation ==== | ||