Work is an important component in the rehabilitative process for offenders. The work programme imparts vocational and employability skills through on-the-job training. Work also inculcates positive work ethics in the inmates. Through immersing in a real work environment, inmates learn discipline and positive values. These will help them rejoin the workforce and reintegrate into society when they are released.

Apart from providing inmates with important work skills and ethics, the prison industries are used to generate revenue and income to fund SCORE’s rehabilitation programmes. As a self-funded statutory board, it is crucial that SCORE generates a steady stream of income so that rehabilitative projects are not derailed due to the lack of resources. Using a self-help model, inmates therefore contribute and support their own rehabilitation programmes through their work activities.

By keeping inmates gainfully occupied during their incarceration, SCORE’s work programme also contributes to overall prison security.

The above three objectives of SCORE's work programme are achieved through close partnership with the private sector. We aim to support and collaborate with private enterprises that can use the prison work programme for part of their manufacturing and production process. Instead of competing with the private enterprises, SCORE invites them to relocate their labor-intensive work processes inside the Prisons to better manage their costs; and at the same time participate in the rehabilitation of offenders.