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: Current AwarenessStraw launches high-visibility community punishment - The Guardian
By traceydennis
“From a distance, the five burly men hacking away at a patio in Slough yesterday might have looked like ordinary labourers. If they hoped that muddy boots and woolly hats allowed them to pass as builders doing a hard day’s work, however, they were wrong. These were the first convicted UK criminals forced to wear controversial ‘vests of shame’ - bright orange bibs designed as public reminders that offenders cleaning graffiti or laying pavements are being punished and not paid.”
The Guardian, 2nd December 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Full post as published by Current Awareness on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).
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