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Campo Grande School Reformed Using Prisoners' Labor and Salaries
09/02/2015 - 09h09
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ESTÊVÃO BERTONI
FROM SÃO PAULO
All that Flavina Maria da Silva, a teacher at a state school in Campo Grande (MS), received during the school's last renovation in 2009 was the extension of a classroom and a new coat of paint.
"We had no short term prospect of a significant new reform," said the principal Everaldo Monteiro da Silva.
But the work has been done now, six years after the last, and without the use of public money. The work was done by prisoners, using their own resources. The school will be officially re-inaugurated on September 9.
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For their work, prisoners can reduce their sentences. (Photo: Divulgação/Agepen) |
The school has received a new coating on the ceramic in its kitchen and entrance hall. Classrooms have also been refitted, while light fittings and paving have been changed.
It is the fourth renovation of a state school in Campo Grande funded by prisoners, as part of a project created last year by the judge Albino Coimbra Neto.
"Using prison labor public work is relatively common. The great novelty here is that the prisoners are the ones who pay for the work," he said.
According to the Law of Penal Execution, government may take a percentage of prisoners' salaries in order to cover their maintenance whilst in prison.
In Campo Grande, instead of the money being used in prisons, it has been used to pay for renovation of state schools. For their work, prisoners can reduce their sentences.
Translated by TOM GATEHOUSE