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Should Kent's prisoners get paid for the work they do? Is it slavery to make them work for almost nothing?

It costs on average 拢36,000 a year to keep someone in prison. In Kent prisons inmates are offered some pretty menial jobs like assembling food packaging and party balloons. They are paid 30p an hour, which means they can earn around 拢8 to 拢10 a week.

The prisons themselves are making around 拢500,000 by putting the inmates to work. Is that a good thing?

You might have read this morning that some of the most widely disliked buildings in Britain, the so called "concrete jungles" or "brutalist" structures of the 1960s and 1970s have been added to a controversial list of some of the world's most endangered buildings. They include libraries, bus stations and parts of the South Bank Centre in London.

What about here in Kent? Perhaps you would add a Medway or Kent structure to the list such as the Pentagon Centre in Chatham and Gravesend's Woodville Halls.

Nearly 2,000 jobs are being cut at the 大象传媒 as it tries to make nearly 拢700m in savings over the next six years. Around half the savings will be made behind the scenes but it will also mean big changes for 大象传媒 Two and Local Radio. It is proposed that 大象传媒 Radio Kent will share its output with other stations in the afternoons, evenings and at the weekends.

On breakfast this morning you heard Head of the 大象传媒 South East Region, Mick Rawsthorne, speaking about how the cuts announced by the broadcaster yesterday will change the 大象传媒 here in Kent.

Tim Luckhurst is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent and tells mid-morning what he thinks.

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