Prison is a cushy number these days

Being sent to prison is the punishment in that the inmates lose their freedom, there is no call for a double punishment by enforcing harsher regimes.

Do we not want criminals to be rehabilitated? How kind of you to tell us so. Rehabilitation is the only way to prevent recidivism and that's the point of prisons.

I'm all for a prison being a dumping ground for the dregs of humanity, what else should be done with them? This way you have all these misfits in one box. It's a shame we have to pay to keep them alive. Am sure the world will not mourn one less evil child killer.

I care not for the well being, welfare or rights of any of them. The same way they did before they went about their business ruining the lives of others. They are there for punishment and punishment it should be, none of this reform rubbish.

You criminals all have your excuses when there are none. For criminals it is nobody elses fault that they turned to crime but their own. If you think the life of a criminal is hard then try walking in a victims shoes for just 1 day, then you would really know how it feels to be degraded.

I grew up in the most socially and economically deprived areas of Britain and as soon as I left school I went out and got a job,so dont tell me that poor people dont have a choice.I never thought the world owed me a living or that it was ok to make a living by inflicting pain on other people through crime.

The majority of people who commit crimes do so because they want to and because they dont care about the consequences for their victims.I tell you what Excon, if someone murdered someone who you loved I bet you would not be so quick to make excuses for them.

"The inmate told the newspaper Muslim News in March he felt degraded, oppressed and provoked on a daily basis at Whitemoor Prison, Cambridgeshire. Female prison officers will be stopped from being present when male inmates are strip-searched, after a Muslim prisoner said he had been degraded."

Sorry pal, you committed a crime and you're being punished. Your religion is also a liberty you can do without, so put up and shut up!

I always get arrested, maybe it's my name, I blame my parents..

Do these people really have mental health disorders or is it just a reason to label people and excuse them of their crimes? If they are mentally ill, then they 'didn't know what they were doing' and cant be responsible for their actions. Yeah right. People can simply be bad people - social and economic deprivation should not be an excuse - many in such a situation make a good life for themselves.

Something that is seldom published in the popular press are the statistics for people in prison. These give an insight into what jail is really about. Officially, more than 70% of inmates have mental health disorders. These conditions, coupled with low I.Q. and economic and social deprivation result in individuals who commit crimes such as theft, drug abuse, violence and sex offences. Prison is just a dumping ground for the people that society doesn't want to deal with.

Here is my idea for offender rehabilitation. Make conditions in prison so bad that criminals never want to go back there. Make male offenders wear pink underwear (why pink - because why are you going to give them a colour they like? They are offenders) Make them get up at 5 o clock every morning and make them do work (real hard labour). if you cant find anything for them then get them to dig a massive hole and then fill it back in again. When they have finished, start another hole! NO teleision, priviledges are for people outside of prison walls. What about their human rights (I can hear you screaming from here) The only way that human rights laws will work is if the moment you take someone elses human rights away then you instantly forfeit your own.

Think I'll go & rob a bank - could do with a good holiday!