Labour Behind Bars: MPs Propose to Change the Rules
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Will the bill change the widespread practice of disenfranchisement? We discuss this with KHPG programme coordinator Andriy Didenko.
Last week, Bill 10157, which concerns the involvement of convicted persons in labour and the conduct of economic activities in the penitentiary system, was submitted to Verkhovna Rada MPs for consideration.
The authors state that through this document they aim to ‘change the approaches to involving convicts in useful employment, reduce the financial burden of paying the single social contribution, as well as on the payroll fund in correctional institutions and enterprises of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine’.
