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Manufacturing firm saves itself £500,000 by employing prisoners

May 11th, 2007 · Post your comment (No Comments)

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A manufacturing firm is saving itself £500,000 by making more than 20 staff redundant - and handing their work to prisoners.

A total of 22 staff will lose their jobs when Coinmechs Ltd closes its factory in Torquay, Devon, in June.

But they have now discovered their work is being contracted out to inmates at HMP Moorlands near Doncaster.

Worker Jane Astle, 31, who been employed by the company in Torquay, Devon, for over five years, said she was “disgusted”.

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