Prison overcrowding, so what?

Bring back the treadmill & hard labour.I did time in Pentonville back in the twenties.It did me no harm.It brought me up to be an honest & respectful citizen.Overcrowded prison cells merely causes anarchy.Hard labour & discipline gives the inmates respect & time to reflect on their misdemeanors.

really. im just on here to write a paper. and 90% are RETARDED. they kill someone who gives a crap how the heck they're treated in jail. overcrowding who cares shove 20 of them in one cell. nobody cares. and you guys who come on here and have arguements on a board about the death penalty. really? how awesome must your life be to be spending your time arguing on this rather than doing something productive.

Are you not aware that you pay for the prisoners to be in prison? And that overcrowded prisons have to release prisoners as they are planning to do in a number of states to those rapists are going to be your neighbors. I would say not caring is counterproductive to you cause. Along with that the majority of people in prison are there on petty drug charges, and various other crimes that were once misdemeanors. The prisons are over crowded because we have become an over regulatory society with harsher and harsher consequences. And all that crap about how hard you work and blah blah blah people prison often have to work too and they make basically nothing, and never get that nothing that they make. Its easy to be judgmental but not so easy to pass informed judgment. I am doing a research project on this and your is one of the only articles that actually believes its not a problem.

Whoever wrote this page talks pure crap, he obviously has not got a clue about how jails are supposed to work.

The whole point of prison is to deprive you from your freedom and to rehabilitate you, how the hell can you be rehabilitated when all courses are full.So this leads to people coming out with the same attitude they went in with and solves nothing all it is doing is wasting tax payers money
Not only this there are to many people locked up for petty crime like stealing beer from a shop.
now because of the over crowding of the prison they let people go early on tag or 18 day before ther sentance is up, so what they are doing is locking someone up for pinching beer and letting some one out early thats commited murder Which one would you sooner have on the streets.

My opinion is that people that commit petty crime like theft should be forced to do courses out side the jail and made to do community hours, make them put back in to the community what they took out, this way it does not cost the tax payers as much and the money can be invested in other aereas like the NHS and the long term prisoners can be rehabilitated properly.

I also believe that people should be entiteld to there human rights wether there in prison or not, people do make mistakes, no one is perfect and they should not have three people in a single cell eating food at the side of a toilet.

The other day I took a trip down the A14. We have this beautiful countryside, tarnished with roadside debris of burger cartons, milk crates, sheets of polythene wrapped in and around trees and hedgerows and a large array of cans and bottles.

What is so wrong about getting them out their cells and cleaning up the roadsides? What a deterrent it would be, thinking twice about getting back into the ole routine knowing what was in store for them, day in day out.

It is a sight for sore eyes and an embarrassment. God only knows what visitors must think when they come over here, greeted by a discarded roadside hi-visibility vest and a rusty old exhaust back box.

The answer to keeping Britain tidy.

Part of the reason why our prisons are full to overflowing is because the Criminal Justice System is seriously flawed and requires a complete overhaul. Too many innocent people are being convicted. Why won't the Criminal Justice System, the Parole Board and the Prison and Probation Services recognise that wrongful convictions can and do happen? No human institution is totally infallible...

Below is a link to the rest of my article which highlighst the faults with our Criminal Justice System:


> http://www.helium.com/items/770691-is-overcrowding-really-a-problem-in-uk-prisons

What's so special about Turkish jails then (apart from the prayer mats and lack of bacon sarnies in the morning)? Personally I'd advocate sticking them all on giant hamster wheels during the day and using them to generate electricity for the rest of society. Be better than having them sit in a cushy hotel (read prison) playing on a playstation all day!

why not send our prison inmates to Turkish jails? it would be much cheaper for the taxpayer, and maybe make the inmates think twice about commitibf the crime

You just dont get it do you. Dont cry when it happens to you or yours.

Quote: "Quite frankly, prison's too good for the majority of them and I think that our time and money should be spent on more deserving individuals"

You are quite right of course, but with a government who only look after themselves and their monied cronies, you are wasting your breath.

Yo Mr Christie, have you ever you ever considered a short sharp shot instead. Electricity has to generated at the cost of the envioronment.

I'm sure the cost of a semi-automatic pistol and a bullet to go with a much less than the cost of keeping someone in jail.

Iv'e been there so I know . to cushy nowadays .and for young offenders bring the short sharp shock back.