B1 – Intermediate
Banks are where we keep our savings. We always ensure our money is kept in good hands. What if the bank you choose as your partner is run by inmates and the manager himself is a convict? Find out more about this one of a kind “Prison bank”.
Discussion Questions:
1. What are the things you consider in choosing a bank?
2. Can a convict trust a fellow convict?
3. Will you entrust your savings to a criminal?
4. What is the advantage of giving responsibilities to inmates?
5. In your country, do the prisons have programs for inmates?
6 replies on “Prison Bank”
1. What are the things you consider in choosing a bank?
First of all, I consider that the most important thing you should consider in choosing a bank it would be that your saving account has low taxes and fees. Besides that, I consider that it would be interesting that it was easy to borrow money and pay in flexible intalments.
2. Can a convict trust a fellow convict?
As I see It, it is a very dificult question. If a convict is in a jail for a economic crime, I won´t give him or her my money, but if someone is in jail for another crime, I will think about it and decide.
3. Will you entrust your savings to a criminal?
No, I completely sure that I don´t entrust my savings to a criminal because I always have doubst when I put my savings in a bank and if a criminal had my money, I won´t sleep good, I am sure.
4. What is the advantage of giving responsibilities to inmates?
In my opinión, the ultimate purpose that giving responsabilities to inmates is in order to try the reinsertion and re-education for convited people. If a inmate shows that he or she has changed his mind and understand his error, they would have live again out of the jai.
5. In your country, do the prisons have programs for inmates?
Yes, in Spain there are reinsertion programs: jobs, courses and worhshops that also reduce the prisioner´s sentences. For example: laundry jobs, courses for abusers or economics or domestic workshops.
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1. What are the things you consider in choosing a bank?
When I choose my bank I looked for a bank without extra payment and things like that. For example I could open a new bank account without additionals charges and is important for me that bank has promotions to young people.
2. Can a convict trust a fellow convict?
Maybe, I mean they have their own code. From my point of view no because they can’t trust each other.
3. Will you entrust your savings to a criminal?
Definitely no because I have my personal opinion about who can managing or saving my money and I don’t trust in criminal.
4. What is the advantage of giving responsibilities to inmates?
I think is good point to restore their trust because when we see a released criminal maybe we cannot trust him and I think the principals advantages is return their trust.
5. In your country, do the prisons have programs for inmates?
Yes, I don’t know all of those but I can give a few examples like cleaning streets, help old people, etc.
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1. What are the things you consider in choosing a bank?
When choosing a bank, I really appreciate that the credit card is free, that they do not charge me interest for having an open account and that it allows me to have a savings account.
2. Can a convict trust a fellow convict?
I think that in general they don’t trust each other, because they are distrustful people.
3. Will you entrust your savings to a criminal?
In my case, I would not trust my money in a bank where convicts work, because they do not convey trust or loyalty to me.
4. What is the advantage of giving responsibilities to inmates?
One advantage of giving an inmate responsibility is that while serving his sentence he feels useful, and he can keep learning new things by the time he gets out he can put them into practice as well.
5. In your country, do the prisons have programs for inmates?
I think that in Spain prisons have programs for inmates, such as volunteering, tasks for citizenship in libraries or cleaning streets for example.
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