https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/2013/05/16/should-we-support-industrial-use-of-prison-labour/ University of Edinburgh Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/2013/05/16/should-we-support-industrial-use-of-prison-labour/#comment-27978 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:47:30 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/?p=83#comment-27978 Thanks Miesbeth. Following this blog post, a group of us were invited to visit HMP Shotts near Glasgow earlier this year (I wrote a short post on this on the SRS Visions blog). Procurement at the University are doing a lot of work on socially responsible/sustainable procurement, for example in collaboration with Scottish HE/FE buying consortium APUC http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/susproject.php In terms of prison labour, and other potential linkages we could have with prisons in terms of rehabilitation, we hope to organise a researcher-practitioner mixer event during the coming academic year to dig into these questions further.

]]> https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/2013/05/16/should-we-support-industrial-use-of-prison-labour/#comment-26796 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:00:23 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/?p=83#comment-26796 Thanks for an interesting discussion. Look forward to the forthcoming event you mention.
Lack of clarity/transparency seems to be the theme throughout (where the goods the University buys come from, how they are produced, what the terms are under which prisoners labour in the UK and elsewhere, etc.)
Do we know if there is research undertaken at Edinburgh that helps with any of these questions?

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